Wales Bill
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Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
1: Clause 1, page 2, line 5, leave out “There is”...
My Lords, before we begin our Report stage scrutiny of the Bill, I would like to say a few words ...
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I am most grateful to the noble Lord and I hear what he says about jurisdiction. If that is to be...
My Lords, I am sure that the noble Lord will understand that I do not want to be drawn into the s...
My Lords, perhaps I may respond positively to the amendment introduced in response to the discuss...
My Lords, I want to add one word to what the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas, has just said. I very ...
My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 2 relating to the establishment of a justice in Wales commissio...
My Lords, I had intended to speak in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely, on her Am...
My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and my noble friend Lady Morgan of Ely. I fir...
My Lords, at Second Reading, I spoke in support of the maintenance of the single legal jurisdicti...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 2, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely, to ...
My Lords, I think this is an occasion on which we should not speak for more than a minute and a h...
My Lords, I shall raise two short points. One is to commend the Government’s Amendment 1 and the ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in debate on this group of amendments. It was...
May I pursue the point that the Minister just made about the non-statutory proposal for this comm...
My Lords, I indicated on the latter point that I certainly intended that we would publish, in som...
My Lords, I apologise for not being here for the whole debate. The Minister mentioned the fiscal ...
My Lords, in relation to the fiscal framework, things continue to move in a very satisfactory dir...
My Lords, it was heartening to hear that the committee can go forward only through consensus—that...
First, as I have said, these things are best done by consensus but it is a two- way street—both s...
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
4: Clause 4, page 3, line 24, leave out “Wales pu...
My Lords, the amendments in this group relate to universities and public bodies. Their purpose is...
My Lords, I must express our gratitude to the Government for clarifying this position. I also ech...
My Lords, I was once vice-chancellor of the University of Wales and I think that this is a distin...
My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as a governor of Cardiff Metropolitan University. I ec...
My Lords, as for expressing thanks and congratulations, may I, as the first president of Cardiff ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on the second group of amendmen...
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
5: Clause 4, page 3, leave out lines 25 to 28 and...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
6: Schedule 3, page 96, line 16, leave out “WALES...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
9: Clause 5, page 6, line 21, at end insert—
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
10: Clause 9, page 12, line 17, at end insert “, ...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
11: Clause 13, page 15, line 40, at end insert—
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
13: Clause 21, leave out Clause 21
My Lords, these new clauses and amendments in my name mainly take forward the recommendations of ...
My Lords, I refer in passing to Amendment 42, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. I spoke...
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, whose interest and involveme...
My Lords, I very strongly agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, has just said. To leave th...
My Lords, to follow on from what the noble Lord, Lord Morgan, has just said, I have looked at the...
My Lords, I take exactly the same view and support completely everything that has been said by th...
My Lords, I defer to my noble friend Lord Crickhowell’s specialist knowledge on fisheries and wil...
My Lords, I was reflecting on how passionate and moving some of the speeches about water were in ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for what has certainly been an impassioned debate on an area that I...
The only thing that worries me about that is that they may have been passed to the Welsh Governme...
My Lords, as I said, I will look at the issue, but my understanding is that if the fishing is tak...
I am grateful to the Minister, who is repeating—quite understandably—the points he made in Commit...
My Lords, I am saying that. The noble Lord is not often unfair, but I think that he is being unfa...
I am sorry to intervene again—I do not want to be a nuisance—but the Bill says that the protocol ...
That is a drafting point. The noble Lord makes a fair point, but I can give the reassurance that ...
From what the Minister says, it seems pretty obvious that the protocol will not be in existence b...
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, for that intervention. I cannot be certain, but I an...
Moved by
Lord Wigley
14: Clause 29, page 26, line 23, leave out “, other than harbour...
My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 14 and the other amendments in the group which have ...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 14 to 22 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley...
My Lords, it really rankles that, yet again, something which is taken for granted in Scotland is ...
My Lords, I had not intended to intervene again on this issue. I have long experience of dealing ...
My Lords, following that very interesting contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, per...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these amendments. Obviously,...
In that case, if the Minister is saying that the two Governments would work together anyway in th...
My Lords, if I have understood the point correctly, this is in the context of our firm belief tha...
May I just develop this point? I remind noble Lords that the rule on Report is that they should s...
I am grateful. Incidentally, that was an intervention, not another speech. If the Welsh Governmen...
My Lords, we could disagree on this issue until the cows come home but the basic point, which I t...
I thank those who have taken part in this debate, including the noble Baronesses, Lady Morgan and...
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
27: Clause 35, page 30, line 46, at end insert—
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
28: After Clause 35, insert the following new Cla...
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
30: Clause 36, page 31, line 28, leave out “or se...
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Lord Wigley
36: Clause 37, page 32, line 32, leave out “350” and insert “200...
My Lords, here we go again. I rise to move Amendment 36 and to speak to Amendment 37, which is co...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 57 and 58, which seek to amend government Amendment 56. The...
I believe that the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, has been led astray by a very faulty piece of wor...
My Lords, I start by making clear that I do not share the views of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, o...
My Lords, I will intervene for a short moment, with real apologies for not having been here at ea...
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Griffiths of Burry Port is rather charitable, indeed flattering, t...
My Lords, I will address the remarks on this group of amendments and I thank noble Lords who have...
Before the Minister sits down, I should like to be clear on this point. The suggestion is that th...
My Lords, I acknowledge that this is a serious issue. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for exa...
My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has taken part in this debate. I have noted the replies g...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
38: Clause 37, page 34, line 11, at end insert—
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
39: After Clause 45, insert the following new Cla...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
40: After Clause 45, insert the following new Cla...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
45: Clause 46, leave out Clause 46 and insert the...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
50: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
53: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
55: After Clause 49, insert the following new Cla...
Moved by
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
56: After Clause 49, insert the following new Cla...