Wales Bill

My Lords, first, I apologise humbly and unreservedly to the whole House for not being here when t...

My Lords, I wish the Minister a happy new year. It is extremely good news that the Welsh Governme...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness in addressing these questions. First, let me say...

My Lords, I will address Amendment 143A standing in my name and that of my noble friends Lord Kin...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly to Amendment 80 in the group to which I have added my name. The...

My Lords, I apologise for the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, who is heavily engag...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene but I am prompted to do so by one or two things that ha...

I shall speak to Amendment 74, proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, to continue to clarify th...

My Lords, I shall follow on from my noble friend Lord Rowlands on the issue of the apprenticeship...

My Lords, as a co-signatory to my noble friend Lord Hain’s amendment, I support everything that m...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on the amendments in this group...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister but can he publish exactly which public bodies, which l...

I am sure I can and I will make endeavours to do so. Clearly, this is related to the way in which...

Is it not the case, though, that the state aid argument would apply equally in Scotland and North...

The rules certainly apply equally throughout the EU but you have to establish that there is a com...

I say to the Minister as a matter of record that I would gladly continue with the situation of th...

My Lords, I hear what the noble Lord says. I think he would accept that it is a case of defining ...

It sounds as if the Minister, in winding up on the airport aspect, is dismissing the arguments we...

My Lords, if I may say so, that is a somewhat unfair caricature of what I am saying. I am saying ...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

75: Clause 3, page 2, line 31, after “7A)” insert “an...

My Lords, there are a number of huge and very different amendments to be considered in this group...

My Lords, we are again dealing with a very disparate group of amendments. Amendments 76 and 77, w...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 78. However, before so doing, I want to say first how deli...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan. As I have ...

My Lords, how to follow that? I shall speak to Amendment 90 in my name and in those of my noble f...

My Lords, I will confine myself to Amendment 78 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morga...

My Lords, I have Amendment 82 in this group. It is a question, as my noble friend Lord Elystan-Mo...

My Lords, I would like to say a few words about Amendment 90. I will not stray into the internal ...

I acknowledge that the noble Lord represents Conservative trade unionists, which must be a noble ...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention, but I am sure that there would be plenty of room for...

My Lords, the point is that under the conferred powers model of governance at the moment, we alre...

Well, some see it as that. I see it as a clarification that was needed—something that became quit...

My Lords, I will make clear my strong support for Amendment 90, for the reasons that have been ma...

Does my friend, the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas, accept that whatever might be said about the pu...

I appreciate being given the authority of Professor Dicey but the real situation is that these is...

My Lords, I speak against Amendment 90 in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Hain, the noble Baron...

My Lords, there are many issues on which I find myself in agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Bal...

I wonder if the noble Lord recalls our jointly campaigning on the Welsh referendum in the 1970s. ...

No, it is the definition of the fact that when confronted with reality, I try to make it work. Co...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who participated in the discussion on these amendments. I will ...

I am grateful to the Minister. He will see that my amendment in fact applies to subsection (2)(c)...

I appreciate that, but I think the noble Lord made a broader point about “ancillary to” not being...

My Lords, I do not wish to detain the House for too long. We have spent a lot of time on this gro...

Moved by

Lord Elystan-Morgan

78: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I shall beg leave to withdraw the amendment, but at the same time I want to—

Are you withdrawing the amendment, or do you want to speak to it?

With the leave of the House, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78A: Schedule 1, page 52, line 30, at end insert—...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Gresford

81: Schedule 1, page 59, leave out lines 11 to 15