Trade Union Bill

My Lords, if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 1A or 1B by reason of pre-empt...

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

3: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

“Ele...

My Lords, the purpose of the amendment is simple: to promote the greatest possible engagement, an...

My Lords, in supporting this amendment I will repeat, very briefly, a point that I made in Commit...

My Lords, I support this amendment for all the reasons given by the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, an...

My Lords, I will raise one or two drawbacks to the course of action outlined by the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, there seems to be a great reluctance among your Lordships to speak. I will not repeat w...

My Lords, I am not certain that I understand why no one is getting up on the other side on this m...

My Lords, there are moments in this House when I begin to wonder whether I have quite got the rig...

And that is just the Government.

On that, I deeply disagree with my noble friend Lord Forsyth.

To be serious, the argument g...

My Lords, I cannot resist responding to my noble friend. I did, indeed, argue against having tabl...

This is an important debate, and I thank noble Lords who have taken time to contribute. I think t...

I am listening to this series of difficulties which the Government do not know the answer to. Is ...

My Lords, I have explained that we already have the power, and we also have the will to move in t...

My Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this debate. In the interests of time, I wil...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

4: Clause 4, page 2, line 34, leave out “reasonably d...

My Lords, we had an interesting debate on this clause in Committee and the noble Lords, Lord Coll...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

5: Clause 7, page 4, leave out line 9 and insert “sub...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, made a powerful case that increasing the period of no...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

6: Clause 8, page 4, line 19, leave out from “period”...

My Lords, it may be that I should have grouped today’s amendments, but they are all obviously dif...

My Lords, I am very glad that the Government have thought it right to do this. I felt strongly th...

My Lords, I rise simply to suggest that, where an important agreement, as this may be, is concern...

I thank my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay for his comments. It shows the value of scrutiny ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

8: Clause 9, page 5, line 25, leave out “a badge, arm...

Moved by

Lord Burns

9: Clause 10, page 6, leave out lines 5 to 42 and insert—

“...

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 9 and of Amendment 10, which is consequential, is to put into ...

The noble Lord advances pragmatic arguments in respect of existing contributors, but what is the ...

I do not propose at all that they should be denied the opportunity to opt in. The issue that is b...

My Lords, I was very glad to add my name to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Burns, because ...

My Lords, I am one of the signatories to this amendment and I am delighted to follow the noble Lo...

My Lords, I support Amendments 9 and 10. Clause 10 has raised much concern and strength of feelin...

Notwithstanding my considerable respect for the noble Lord, Lord Burns, and my noble friend Lord ...

What does my noble friend mean by a generous period, because, clearly, if it were 10 years or fiv...

That, truth to tell, is a matter of negotiation. My noble friend Lord Forsyth and I have often ne...

I am very grateful to my noble friend, but he cannot stand up and say, “We ought to have a more g...

Of course I can—I am not the Minister, nor am I in the business of negotiating. When we were on t...

My Lords, I am tempted to my feet for my first venture from the Back Benches in the few days afte...

I think that it is the turn of the Cross Benches. The noble Lord, Lord Cormack, will be pleased t...

My Lords, I first apologise to the noble Lord for inadvertently interposing myself before him. As...

This is not the first time we have heard that unions are not honouring the Murray-King agreement ...

It is an interesting idea that a voluntary agreement to move in a particular direction is then th...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I put to him the point that the noble Lord, Lord Burns...

My Lords, I, too, had the great privilege of serving on the Select Committee of the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I served on the committee of the noble Lord, Lord Burns, which he chaired in a consensu...

My Lords, first, I apologise for having a somewhat croaky voice. My noble friend Lord Collins tel...

My Lords, Clauses 10 and 11 implement our manifesto commitment for a transparent opt-in process f...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way and apologise for intervening early in her remarks. ...

Well, I believe that manifesto commitments are important. This is an important and clear manifest...

My Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this debate. I am not surprised that so much...

Moved by

Lord Burns

10: Clause 10, page 7, line 16, leave out subsections (3) to (5)<...

Tabled by

Lord Stoneham of Droxford

11: Clause 10, leave out Clause 10

I am glad that the amendment has been passed but obviously we will wait to see the Government’s r...

Moved by

Lord Leigh of Hurley

12: Clause 11, page 7, line 32, leave out from “union” ...

My Lords, my amendment seeks to clarify the nature of the transparency sought within political fu...

My Lords, I shall be very brief in supporting my noble friend Lord Leigh. I wish to bring up one ...

My Lords, the Government are committed to greater transparency for all contributing union members...

I thank my noble friend the Minister for agreeing to review and to come back at Third Reading and...

Moved by

Lord Burns

13: Clause 11, page 7, leave out lines 35 to 42 and insert—