Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group, particularly Amendments 19 and 22. I remind the...

My Lords, I offer my support for these amendments in considering the particular needs of young pe...

My Lords, first, I declare my interest as chair of the National Mental Capacity Forum. I join in ...

My Lords, if I may join in the general chorus, the concern that these amendments express—that the...

I add my support, but I wish to take this a little further. Older people are not the only members...

My Lords, I well understand the objectives of the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, and I have the great...

My Lords, I am happy to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard. His point is understandable bu...

My Lords, the co-pilot is in charge of this leg of the legislative journey, and I apologise in ad...

Perhaps there is a slight misunderstanding here. The FCA certainly sees its role as regulating ap...

My initial response is that if the gap is indeed not closed, it is one of the objectives of the F...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on these amendments. With the exception of the ...

Moved by

Baroness Drake

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“( ) The ...

My Lords, we all know that the UK faces a series of systemic challenges, which drives the need fo...

I support Amendment 24, to which I have added my name, and I hope that the Minister will find it ...

My Lords, I support the amendment introduced forcefully by my noble friend Lady Drake. I am not s...

My Lords, I will try to reflect the German work/life balance referred to by the noble Earl, Lord ...

May I receive a bit of clarification on the Government’s response to the House of Lords Select Co...

I would love to give a direct and helpful response to the noble Lord’s very reasonable question. ...

I thank the Minister for his reply. I totally disagree with most of what he said. I thoroughly ag...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

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“...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 26 I will speak also to Amendment 40. These amendments concern unma...

I have a small additional question arising from Amendment 26. As things stand, I understand that ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for tabling these amendments. Amendment 26 relat...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that sympathetic reply and for the detail contained in it. The...

Moved by

Baroness Drake

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“( ) to i...

My Lords, Amendment 27 adds an objective for the new guidance body,

“to improve the ability...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 27A in this group. This amendment makes a very small change ...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the names of my noble friend Lady Drake and the noble Lord,...

My Lords, perhaps I may address Amendment 27, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Drake, and ...

I thank the Minister for her sympathetic reply. Sadly, the path of life does not always run smoot...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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My Lords, I think I can be relatively brief because I have heard both noble Lords who have spoken...

My Lords, I shall cut straight to the quick, as they say, with the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, an...

I thank the Minister very much for that full and considered response. I look forward to the discu...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 34, 36 and 37. I am afraid this is quite a wide-ranging...

My Lords, I support the amendments. As a passenger behind my noble pilots, I thank the Minister f...

I will say just a sentence or two, because the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, has put the case so ...

I did not intend to contribute to this debate, but it is a very important issue. The note, which ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate, particularly the noble ...

According to those with better intelligence than I in the use of electronic devices, it was actua...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, who has mitigated the situation. Even so, it is very last-m...

I apologise to my noble friend for intervening, but this is a really important issue. The points ...

I thank my noble friend for her intervention. Perhaps I am not making it clear that it is not nec...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, for th...