Trade Union Bill

My Lords, I was delighted to tear up the speech that I was going to make, and I am delighted to b...

My Lords, I rise to speak to this amendment and in doing so declare my interests as chairman of K...

My Lords, mine is the third name on this amendment and I am delighted to intervene. I am also del...

I can get extremely angry about some things in this House. One thing I get angry about is when th...

My Lords, I welcome the words of the noble Lord, Lord Bridges. Like the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake...

My Lords, I add my comments in support of what has been said. I had a feeling that the noble Baro...

My Lords, at the risk of contributing to this lordly love-in, I want to refer to an additional re...

My Lords, we, too, welcome the Government’s announcement today on check-off. I understand that th...

My Lords, I apologise to those who have had to edit their speeches so quickly and spent time over...

This has been a very pleasant little debate. The noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, reminded me that I di...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

23A: Schedule 1, page 19, line 45, leave out from “If...

My Lords, there has been a lot of very helpful and constructive discussion with noble Lords oppos...

My Lords, I believe that the Government have got it wrong on the proposals for a new role for the...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s recognition that, as drafted, the Bill could give rise to ve...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for introducing her amendments at this stage. They are criti...

My Lords, I shall not bang on, but I want to make one or two points. The noble Lord, Lord Collins...

I thank noble Lords. This has been an important follow-up to a series of debates and meetings out...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

31B: Clause 18, page 15, leave out line 26 and insert...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

31E: After Clause 18, insert the following new Clause...

Moved by

Baroness Prosser

31F: After Clause 18, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, the Minister will have noticed the slight but significant change of wording in this ame...

My Lords, when I spoke in Committee I made reference to the Minister behaving like Stonewall Jack...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Prosser on tabling this amendment and on the very e...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, on her proposed n...

My Lords, I am very grateful for this opportunity to consider wider aspects of industrial relatio...

I am grateful to the Minister for that response and I am heartened by it. I have just a couple of...

I should have said that. The powers are not the problem here; it is about what we do, in intent a...

I thank the Minister for that.

Secondly, employee engagement, and the mechanisms to bring i...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

32: Clause 21, page 16, line 30, at end insert “, sub...

My Lords, to many, it may seem that we do not need to debate the issue of the disapplication of t...

My Lords, I have my name to this amendment and I am glad to associate myself with almost everythi...

My Lords, I frequently disagree with the way the Welsh Government operate but I defend totally th...

My Lords, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, that on election manifestos it is quality, not qu...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Hain and other noble Lords who have spoken on this amend...

My Lords, we have had a relatively lengthy discussion, both in Committee and this evening, about ...

The Minister has been very generous this afternoon, but I fear that her generosity is now strayin...

I thank the noble Lord. I am certainly not seeking to make any changes. I said in response to a p...

My Lords, before the noble Baroness sits down, I simply raise the issue to which she referred in ...

My Lords, I ask the noble Baroness to give way. She knows as well as I do that this is Report sta...

If the noble Baroness has finished, I shall move on. I am glad the Minister said that she has lis...

With the leave of the House, I remind the noble Baroness that we are on Report. She is not asking...

It is her amendment.

I apologise. I came in late.

The noble Lord should have been here when we were discussing this earlier, but there we go. It is...