Trade Union Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister; I appreciate that the Government have moved substantially on this...

My Lords—

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, was not in the Chamber until well after the Minister had...

My Lords, can my noble friend say whether I am right in thinking that there has been some change ...

In the circumstances, it would be right to hear the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake.

I am very grateful to the House for giving me the opportunity to speak. I was going to convey my ...

My Lords, I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, has just said. The Minister has repeat...

My Lords, I thank the Minister, as I do Mr Nick Boles for the very constructive part he played in...

My Lords, perhaps I may add to the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, but, first, I also ...

My Lords, I, too, must apologise for being a little late. I was brought up on the good trade unio...

My Lords, I believe that we have made significant progress today, despite the confusion over the ...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend the Minister. We did of course have extensive deb...

My Lords, we discussed e-balloting in this House in Committee and at Report. There was a very wid...

Could my noble friend please answer the question that I asked about timescale? She used the expre...

I can repeat that we will act in due course and without delay. Those words were advised. Of cours...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

My Lords, we have debated at length the principle of how union members exercise their choice to o...

My Lords, I am delighted to be able to thank the Minister for her statement and the amendments, a...

In the noble Lord’s discussions with the Government about his amendment, at what stage was he tol...

Mr Nick Boles explained to the other place one day last week that he and I met last Monday evenin...

My Lords, I rise with some disappointment to speak on these amendments, but I start by paying tri...

My Lords, I too served on the Select Committee so ably led by the noble Lord, Lord Burns, and I a...

My Lords, I join my noble friend Lord Robathan in expressing my disappointment at the Government’...

My Lords, I had not intended to participate in the debate. I thought that it was going to go thro...

My Lords, I think we have to reflect, briefly, upon what has happened. We had a Motion, carried b...

My Lords, we in this House often complain that the other place has ignored our views. It is unusu...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for not just tabling this Motion, which I very much support, bu...

My noble friend was a distinguished Cabinet Minister back in the 1990s. Is he not being unduly cy...

I am tempted to be sanctimonious about this. What I found most risible about the Government’s exp...

My Lords, I think my noble friend Lord Forsyth has unravelled a puzzle. I, too, am disappointed b...

My Lords, I will not speak for long because we have discussed this at length. I think we have all...

My noble friend is extremely influential. It was Mr Boles who did not think to include him.

I am grateful for that clarification. The noble Lord, Lord Robathan, has explained how Ministers ...

My Lords, I think we are in for a pretty bad couple of months, in which conspiracy theories will ...

My Lords—

If I may just finish this point, I will then give way to the noble Lord. What I want to know is: ...

My former noble friend Lord Murray of Epping Forest was a man of great integrity. One of his stra...

I make it clear straightaway that I had the greatest respect for Lord Murray—Len Murray, as he wa...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord King, for his history lesson but, with great resp...

The point that has been left out is the second half of what the noble Lord, Lord Burns, said, whi...

That is in the amendment. Of course there should be proper respect. Trade unions are being placed...

Come on, get on with it.

My Lords, never has my appearance been so welcome. Government Amendments 7A to 7F mark significan...

My Lords, I recognise the emotions that this Motion has elicited, and that opinions are divided, ...

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley

My Lords, there has been much debate over the Government’s wish to have a reserve power to place ...

My Lords, I first declare my interest as president of the Local Government Association. Your Lord...

I want to make just one brief point. We, too, welcome the amendment and the compromise which the ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his clarity and brevity—after the previous debate—in introduci...

I thank the noble Baroness, the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, and the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for...

Before the Minister sits down, I intervene briefly to repeat the thanks already expressed by othe...

My Lords, last week at Third Reading I thanked at some length all those who have worked so hard a...