Wales Bill

My Lords, can I express my severe disappointment at the change of tone in the Minister’s delivery...

The amendment would insert:

“Terms and conditions of employment and industrial relations in...

I understand that. I understand my own amendment. It refers to public services.

The Ministe...

I am not clear whether the noble Lord wishes to withdraw the amendment or press it.

I am not going to press it at this hour, but I reserve the right to press it on Report if there h...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

67: Schedule 1, page 71, line 20, at end insert—

“Exceptio...

My Lords, Amendment 67 seeks to devolve Welsh language broadcasting and Welsh language media to t...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment. Language is of course central to the Welsh identity. ...

My Lords, I have always felt that Welsh-language broadcasting should be part of the general broad...

My Lords, on more than one occasion, I probably rode to the rescue of S4C myself, and I very much...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly on the issue of devolution of S4C. In this rapidly evolving digit...

My Lords, as we have heard, we currently have substantial change in the structure of broadcasting...

My Lords, most of the debate has so far referred to the necessity to devolve control over Welsh b...

My Lords, I greatly appreciate the kind and generous words of the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gres...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, for moving this amendment on Welsh language broadc...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, which has brought ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

67B: Schedule 1, page 74, line 6, leave out “or t...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

67D: Schedule 1, page 74, leave out lines 20 to 2...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

68: Schedule 1, page 74, line 36, leave out “, deaths...

My Lords, I draw the attention of the Committee to the immense overcomplexity that has been intro...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for moving this amendment in relation to the civil registrat...

My Lords, I will be very brief. I am not quite convinced by the argument that the separation woul...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

71: Schedule 1, page 75, leave out line 28

I am sorry, my Lords, but I seem to be monopolising things a little this evening. In moving Amend...

My Lords, in warmly endorsing the case made by my noble friend Lady Morgan of Ely on the three am...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, for proposing these amendments.

Amendmen...

My Lords, things are getting much better. We have had three positive replies. I thank the Ministe...

Moved by

Baroness Humphreys

74: Schedule 1, page 78, leave out lines 7 to 13

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78A: Schedule 2, page 82, line 40, leave out “Sec...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

83: After Clause 26, insert the following new Clause—

“Ass...

My Lords, in view of the time, I shall try to truncate my comments. The amendment would give the ...

My Lords, I normally agree with my noble friend on devolution matters, but I want to question the...

VAT is very much more stable and would be less likely to go down by the nature of the expenditure...

The noble Lord may have a point in the sense that more VAT proportionately is paid by people on l...

I support my noble friend because I worry about taxation. It can be very regressive in an individ...

I endorse the views of my two colleagues on the Labour Benches. I think it would increase budget ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, for moving Amendment 83, which seeks to assign a s...

I am grateful for the contributions made by my noble friends on this side, and for the response o...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

83A: Clause 27, page 24, line 11, leave out “subs...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

83C: Clause 29, page 25, line 12, leave out “sect...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

90A: Clause 30, page 26, line 35, at end insert—<...

Moved by

Lord Rowe-Beddoe

96: After Clause 36, insert the following new Clause—