Wales Bill

I have one very naive question, in which I shall simply display my ignorance—but I am puzzled by ...

We have quite a strange group of amendments here but, rather than uncouple them, I would like to ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these amendments, and the no...

My very short and technical question is whether it is humanly possible, in any event, for preroga...

The noble Lord jogs my memory on the Attorney-General v De Keyser’s Royal Hotel Limited which was...

My Lords, I will take up the Minister’s offer of a meeting, not that I want to add to his diary w...

Moved by

Lord Elis-Thomas

28: Clause 18, page 18, line 4, at end insert—

“(6A) ...

We come to a further elaboration of the relationship between ministerial functions and those of t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for setting out some of the issues relating to the transfer of M...

My Lords, I want to add just a word or two to what has just been said from the Scottish perspecti...

My Lords, the call for the alignment of legislative and executive powers is not just a call for t...

My Lords, on 5 July, in the House of Commons, the Government promised to produce draft transfer o...

I thank all noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this part of the Bill and specific...

I take up the noble Lord on one point. If I heard him correctly, he said that the amendment was c...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord is absolutely right. I correct myself.

The noble Lord has not clarified to me why he would object to the principle of this alignment bet...

My Lords, with respect, for the reason I have given—namely, that it is fine as a principle but, b...

Would it not be possible to do it the other way round and make an exception to the principle? Wou...

Once we know what the exceptions are, of course, that is the case, but we need to go through them...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister yet again for his generosity in responding to the argumen...

I propose to speak later on the water issue but the noble Lord observed that the rivers in Scotla...

I do not think it is for me to comment on that. I am grateful to the noble Lord, who was a very d...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

30: Schedule 4, page 94, line 6, at end insert “o...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

35A: Schedule 4, page 99, line 46, at end insert—

I can move it, if noble Lords would like that. Is that acceptable? The issue addressed by this gr...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness’s comments. I really cannot see any shadow of logic behind...

My Lords, for 17 years I was the Member of Parliament for Pembroke and I had very detailed and in...

My Lords, I shall be brief. It strikes me that it is for the Government to make the case for Milf...

My Lords, Milford Haven is at the other end of Wales from me and I have never been there. However...

I support this amendment, the first of a series dealing with individual areas where the British G...

My Lords, I apologise for being blindsided on the government amendments in this group but perhaps...

Perhaps I may clarify something. I entirely accept and understand the strategic argument but perh...

I thank my noble friend for that intervention. He is absolutely right about the need for partners...

I thank the Minister for that and welcome the amendments he put forward relating to the modal gra...

My Lords, I think that related just to reserved trust ports, so it would only be those that are r...

I thank the Minister. I noted he said that Milford Haven was essential to the Bill. He then said ...

My Lords, on the point the noble Baroness raised on the enterprise zone, it exhibited that the cu...

The question is that Amendment 35A be agreed to.