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Lobbying (Transparency) Bill [HL]

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Friday, 18 November 2016, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe.
Lords committee stage. Clauses 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9 agreed to as amended. Clauses 4, 5, 6 and 10 agreed to. Clause 7 disagreed. Bill, as amended, ordered to be printed (HL Bill 75).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

776 cc1703-1720 

Session

2016-17

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses
Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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Lobbying (Transparency) Bill (HL) 2016-17. As amended in Committee.
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Lansley | 776 c1703 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “Secretary of State” and...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1703-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to the amendments that I have tabled. They a...


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Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 c1704 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I start by declaring no interest—although if this was carried, some years ago I would h...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1704 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as has been noted, this amendment would reflect the normal practice that Ministers rath...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1704 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for those responses.

Lord Lansley | 776 c1704 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out paragraph (b)

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1704-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the purpose of the second group of amendments is to remove from the Bill the intention ...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 c1705 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as the noble Lord described, a variety of codes are on offer at present from different ...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1705 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Government believe that the self-regulatory codes administered by the lobbying indu...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1705 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the noble Lord sponsoring the Bill for what he described as a “concession”. From...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1705 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 11, leave out subsection (4) and inse...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1706 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 3 is to introduce a schedule that sets out the provisions of t...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 c1706 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his comments. Again, they are acceptable. I will also move Am...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1706 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the amendment would reproduce wording that is identical to Schedule 1 of the Transparen...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1706 (Link to this contribution)

My noble friend will not be surprised that I agree with her, but since the Bill would repeal that...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1706 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

4: Clause 2, page 2, line 4, after “or” insert “controlling”

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1706-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in this group we are not in the territory of simply trying to put in place the necessar...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 cc1707-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, again I express my gratitude for the explanations the noble Lord has given for these am...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1708 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in some cases, such as Amendment 5, what is proposed seems to be a logical amendment to...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1708 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for those responses. As my noble friend on the Front Bench will understand, my purp...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1708 (Link to this contribution)

Very good. On that basis, I will not move Amendment 5 but will move the other amendments in due c...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

6: Clause 2, page 3, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) For the ...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

7: Clause 3, page 3, line 24, at end insert—

“( ) any com...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1709 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

14: Clause 8, page 5, line 44, leave out paragraph (b)

Lord Lansley | 776 c1710 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

15: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—

“Dut...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1710 (Link to this contribution)

We have happily arrived at the point where we would be by virtue of this group, which appears for...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 776 c1710 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 16A is in this group and I am sure that my noble friend Lord Brooke will spea...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 cc1710-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have some difficulties with this amendment. I declared at the beginning that I had no...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1711 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think I am probably beginning to sound a bit repetitive, I am afraid, but there we ar...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 776 c1711 (Link to this contribution)

This is a slight aside, but I am sorry that the Government are taking this view. We know that the...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 cc1711-2 (Link to this contribution)

As the noble Baroness obviously realises, the Government feel that the Act we already have is the...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1712 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps I may defend my noble friend on the Front Bench in this respect. She was aware that I was...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 cc1712-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as your Lordships probably recognise, I am in a little difficulty here, particularly wi...

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen | 776 c1713 (Link to this contribution)

I will quickly say that of course I would be more than happy to facilitate a meeting. I always th...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1713 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

16: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—

“Not...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 c1713 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

16A: After Clause 8, in subsection (2)(b), after ...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1713-4 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

17: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—

“Lim...

Lord Lansley | 776 c1714 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

19: Clause 9, page 6, line 19, at end insert—

“(2A) It is...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1714-5 (Link to this contribution)

Your Lordships will be pleased to know we have arrived at the final group, in which the amendment...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1715-7 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

20: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“Civ...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1717-8 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

27: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause—

“Gu...

Lord Lansley | 776 cc1718-1720 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Lansley

30: After Clause 12, insert the following new Schedule—

“...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 776 c1720 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

31: After Clause 12, in paragraph 4(1)(b), after ...

Subjects

Disclosure of information
Codes of practice
Appeals
Payments
Monitoring
Lobbying
Registration

Legislation

Lobbying (Transparency) Bill (HL) 2016-17

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