Wales Bill

I support the amendment and, indeed, only wish that my noble friends had gone further and tabled ...

My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister a couple of questions in relation to this amendment be...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Griffiths for introducing this very important amendment. A...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these amendments. In par...

My Lords, such graciousness! How happy I am that the first amendment that I have tabled has met a...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

52A: Schedule 1, page 55, line 11, at end insert—...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

53: Schedule 1, page 56, line 16, at end insert—

My Lords, this amendment, which concerns sea fishing, is a little bit complicated, so I hope that...

My Lords, I support this amendment from my noble friend Lady Morgan. It is in line with a more ge...

As the longest serving fisheries Minister—the longest serving in history, I think—and with my Wel...

My Lords, I plead total ignorance of the licensing regime. Are we satisfied that whoever is in ch...

I support the amendment for the reasons that have been placed before the House. I raise one quest...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in the debate on Amendment 53, in particu...

The Minister will remember of course that before 2006 Wales did not even have a sea.

My Lords, I am going on to tackle the point made by the noble Lord. The Assembly has no legislati...

I thank the Minister. His reply reminded me of the time when I was an MEP and I went to meet the ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

53A: Schedule 1, page 56, line 40, at end insert—...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

53C: Schedule 1, page 57, line 19, leave out “fis...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

53D: Schedule 1, page 59, line 7, leave out from ...

My Lords, in this group there are government amendments and non-government amendments. To try to ...

It is a good thing that the Government have decided to devolve powers relating to council tax ben...

My Lords, the noble Lord will know that the financial arrangements are those of the Barnett block...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 66A, 67A and 67C in my name. Amendment 66A refers to job se...

My Lords, this group of amendments gives the Minister the opportunity, if he chooses to take it, ...

My Lords, in supporting the persuasive case made by the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, I want to...

My Lords, I will follow up on my noble friend Lord Howarth’s point on the principles that guided ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for speaking to the non-government amendments in this group and the...

Will the Minister look again at this situation? My amendment was based on the judgment of the Del...

My Lords, I hope I indicated that I want to be aware of what is happening on the ground. The info...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

54: Schedule 1, page 59, leave out lines 9 to 27

My Lords, Amendment 54 stands in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely. I wi...

My Lords, during earlier discussion on the Bill, many criticisms were made of the lack of informa...

I wholeheartedly support everything that has been said with such eloquence and conviction by my n...

My Lords, in the 1970s, I was engaged in the case made by the Birmingham corporation to drown the...

My Lords, as we turn the pages of history, I share the view of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. Havin...

As a historian, I agree with a great deal of what has been said, including the speech of the nobl...

My Lords, we have heard some very passionate speeches and we are all very aware of how emotional ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these amendments, which ...

I am excited not just by the environmental and political aspects of this but by the constitutiona...

My Lords, as I have indicated, working together between the Government in Cardiff and the Governm...

The temptation to intervene was too much.

I fully understand.

It will be important to put in place a protocol with bite. Both Governm...

I have listened very carefully to the response that the noble Lord, Lord Bourne, has given us. Qu...

My Lords, I can certainly give the noble Lord the assurance that if it is not on the face of the ...

I am pleased that there will be movement on the intervention powers of the Secretary of State. Th...

My Lords, I am happy to clarify that point. I believe that the existing powers in relation to the...

The Minister will recollect that we worked together in the National Assembly. I looked at this is...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for reminding me of the years of co-operation we had in the ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who has participated in this debate, including two forme...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

55A: Schedule 1, page 60, line 4, at end insert —

My Lords, this Bill proposes that the Assembly will gain competence over all renewable energy gen...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, for moving this amendment. Her description of w...

My Lords, I have spent much of the past five years involved with energy matters both here and abr...

My Lords, once again it is a delight to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bloomfield of Hinton Wald...

My Lords, we on these Benches have felt for a long time that the constraint on the Assembly’s cur...

My Lords, Wales can play a pivotal role in the rewiring of the UK electricity system, which of co...

My Lords, I hesitate to get involved in an argument with the two noble friends on my left about w...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on devolution of energy to the ...

On that point, with regard to Swansea Bay being just below the threshold and Cardiff and Colwyn B...

My Lords, I say two things to that. First, I am certainly not going to get into a Dutch auction a...

My Lords, I thank those who have participated in this debate. I recognise that my amendment on el...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

56: Schedule 1, page 61, leave out lines 7 to 21

My Lords, Amendment 56 relates to the proposal by the Government to reserve provision relating to...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness in those comments; the amendment is in my name as well. I ...

My Lords, the Government’s contention that energy policy-making powers, even on such intrinsicall...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who participated in the debates on heat and cooling and on energy c...

I thank the Minister. I find it quite odd when, in one breath, there is a suggestion that we need...

Moved by

Baroness Randerson

57A: Schedule 1, page 61, line 37, leave out “(including ...

My Lords, Amendment 57A covers a small and detailed issue, in contrast to the big issues also add...

My Lords, my Amendments 59, 60 and 70 in this group seek to devolve responsibility for the fundin...

Before the noble Lord sits down, is he now saying that he will not be moving his Amendments 58 an...

As I understand it, the Government have moved on the Wales and Borders franchise. Perhaps the Min...

I was going to say that I strongly support Amendments 58 and 97, in the absence of an assurance f...

My Lords, as currently drafted, reservation 183(c) removes the ability of the National Assembly t...

I strongly support my noble friend’s case. Would she also say that the model of Welsh Water could...

The noble Lord is quite correct in his assessment. One of the problems is that the Welsh Governme...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these issues relating to tra...

Can the Minister give us a timetable for when those decisions will be made? Will it be before Rep...

My Lords, to some extent I am in the hands of noble Lords as to when we complete Committee stage—...

My Lords, I fear that the longer I sit here and listen to the detailed debates, the less confiden...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

65A: Schedule 1, page 65, line 34, leave out “or ...