Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [HL]

My Lords, this is not an area that I knew about before the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, got t...

My Lords, as usual, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, is right on the money and I do not disagree with a...

My Lords, I, too, offer my support to my noble friend Lord Hunt. I agree with his two amendments,...

My Lords, as we have heard, these amendments would add two types of services to be brought within...

My Lords, I very much support the amendments proposed by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral. I j...

My Lords, Amendments 69A and 69B, which my noble friend Lord Hunt has put forward, seek to includ...

My Lords, I accept the offer of a further discussion. I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, L...

Moved by

Lord Holmes of Richmond

70: After Clause 16, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I am pleased to bring forward this amendment, and in doing so I express thanks to all t...

My Lords, I support Amendment 70 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Holmes. As he indicated, what we ...

My Lords, I, too, rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond. I congratulate him on ...

My Lords, I, too, rise briefly to support my noble friend’s amendment and congratulate him on lay...

My Lords, I was a member of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, which looked at th...

My Lords, this is an important amendment and we should congratulate the noble Lord on its introdu...

My Lords, this amendment, tabled by my noble friend Lord Holmes of Richmond and the noble Barones...

I thank my noble friend for that response. It would certainly be a courageous Back-Bencher who so...

Moved by

Baroness Altmann

70ZZA: Clause 17, page 14, line 29, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, Amendment 70ZZA seeks to give the FCA the power to direct providers who are found liabl...

My Lords, the amendment tabled by my noble friend Lady Altmann would, in effect, give the FCA a p...

I thank my noble friend for his courteous and helpful reply.

I have been working with the c...

Moved by

Baroness Greengross

70ZA: Clause 17, page 14, line 30, after “subsection (1)...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, apologises to the House that she is unable to be in h...

My Lords, I support the amendment. We all understand that the amendment has drafting problems, bu...

My Lords, I will be brief in a similar vein. We support the thrust and spirit of the amendment, w...

My Lords, the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, seeks to require the FCA t...

Will it be possible for the Government to bring forward some appropriate language that achieves t...

I will do what I can to shed some more light on those issues. As I said, discussions are going on...

I thank the Minister and the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, and the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for ...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Wirral

70A: Clause 17, page 14, line 33, at end insert “, and c...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register.

Who does not enjoy a holiday i...

My Lords, again, I support the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, and agree with every word he said...

My Lords, I, too, support my noble friend’s Amendment 70A. He has highlighted a very important is...

My Lords, I, too, strongly support my noble friend Lord Hunt’s amendments. I was completely horri...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. Once again, he has m...

My Lords, I am sure the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, will find himself on “Yesterday in Parliament...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those colleagues who participated in this debate. I always want th...

Moved by

The Earl of Kinnoull

71: Clause 17, page 15, line 6, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register of the House, particularly those rela...

I rise briefly to support the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, in his quest for a more equitable arrang...

My Lords, it is my turn to rise to my feet to support my noble friend Lord Young, who has been mo...

I am very grateful to the Minister for her words, which I shall have to read a bit more carefully...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

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

“Ba...

My Lords, as I mentioned on day 2 of Committee, there has been an enormous increase in the number...

My Lords, I support this measure. This industry has become huge. I emphasise the very simple poin...

My Lords, I support this amendment and speak to my Amendment 73 on the same topic, which seeks to...

My Lords, I strongly support the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and I thank her for allowing me to...

My Lords, I too express support for both the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, ...

My Lords, I am sorry that I was not in the Chamber earlier to hear my noble friend Lord Hunt of W...

My Lords, I would not normally deign to interpose in this debate but, having listened to a number...

Could I try to provide a little clarity, perhaps even a partial answer? The amendment is worded s...

My Lords, I am grateful for that. The nub of what I am getting at is whether we have a problem wi...

My Lords, these debates endorse the fact that we dealing with a social nuisance of massive propor...

My Lords, I too rise to express my sympathy with the views articulated by the noble Lord, Lord Sh...

My Lords, I intervene because it is important to stress that it is essential to ban cold calling,...

My Lords, this has been an extensive and fascinating debate. We on these Benches support the call...

I am sorry; it was a slip of the tongue. It is a mechanism which we could do without from this in...

I take the noble Lord’s point.

The noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, made the interesting point...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this important debate. I thank in particular the n...

The Minister talked about the current enforcement and recommended it with such vigour. Could she ...

I am trying to make the point that the transfer of claims management company regulation to the FC...

I was not going to interrupt my noble friend but since she has mentioned it, the matter is very c...

I think I have just tried to explain that one of the reasons for transferring the regulatory role...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend again, but I specifically did not do that. Better regulat...

I thank my noble friend for his further response.

To respond to my noble friend Lord Trench...

I am extremely grateful for the support of all noble Lords who have spoken. I am especially grate...

Moved by

The Earl of Kinnoull

74: Clause 18, page 15, line 27, at end insert “and Sco...

My Lords, this is not really the final furlong but the final approach, I suppose, if we are to ke...

My Lords, we have Amendment 75 in this group, and I shall speak to it briefly. It is a gentle pro...

My Lords, Amendments 74 and 76, tabled by the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, seek to extend Part 2 to...

The Scottish Government have come out with a long paper—it is a dozen pages or so—in which they p...

I am very grateful to the noble Earl, who has been very influential, as I will explain in a momen...

I am very grateful to the Minister for his typically courteous response and the courteous way in ...