Nuclear Safeguards Bill

My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend and the amendment that he has moved. As I said in ou...

My Lords, I rise to support this amendment and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, on...

My Lords, I support this amendment. It is not just a question of maintaining the standards that h...

I rise from these Benches to support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester. Given th...

My Lords, the amendment can only be delivered by people, and it is the issue of people that I wan...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for having gone through all that. That session of ...

My Lords, I hope that I can respond to and deal with the various points that have been made. I am...

We all have the same problem.

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, and I will not refer to his socks, which might have...

My Lords—

Can I just complete a sentence before the noble Lord intervenes? The important point is that it w...

I am very grateful. The Minister used the word “broadly”, which is very significant. Can he tell ...

As I think I made clear at Second Reading, I am not quite sure whether the noble Lord, Lord Judd,...

IAEA.

I will try to get it right. We will meet those without any problem at all. Those are the same as ...

Again, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Can he clarify one point? He said that he is...

My Lords, I could go back but I think that I would try the patience of the Committee if I repeate...

Perhaps I may come back on that point. We are in a very vulnerable position, are we not? As a cou...

The noble Lord is enjoying himself, although I do not know why.

Answer the question.

I am answering the question but the noble Lord is enjoying himself. The ONR is recruiting and wil...

My Lords, I think it was the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, who mentioned the requirement for inf...

Oh!

It is amazing what you can do with Excel spreadsheets, and I suspect that most systems are based ...

I know that Liberal Democrats live and die for Excel spreadsheets. They find them enormously exci...

There is one other matter. Of course, one of the results of what has been in place, very successf...

The noble Lord talks about international obligations. The important thing to remember about the i...

I hesitated to respond to the Minister because I was not quite sure what he was saying. Is he say...

As all noble Lords will know—particularly those who have been on the Front Bench in government fr...

My Lords, I am still confused by the way the Minister goes from one stance to another, saying tha...

Moved by

Lord Warner

4: Clause 1, page 2, line 15, at end insert—

“(3A) No regu...

My Lords, I hope this next amendment will not ensure that we descend into the “end-of-the-pier sh...

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendments 14 and 15 tabled in my name, and in particular to t...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 9. One of the things I have tried to do in this amendment—...

My Lords, the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, underline the desirability of an impl...

I want briefly to speak in support of Amendment 14, which bears my name. While avoiding repeating...

My Lords, we have added our names to Amendment 4 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. It i...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for the opportunity to address this important set of issues around ...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister’s debut on the Bill. I am trying to make clear that I am not...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. I am on paragraph 11. I have many more paragraphs to...

Can we actually make this clear? I have not heard anyone in this Committee saying, “Please, Her M...

I put in this provision about regulations only out of sheer frustration because one cannot get an...

I thank both noble Lords for their interventions. I will make a little progress because I think I...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I suspect that she is now on paragraph 15, but she ...

I was happy with the answer that the Minister was giving about NCAs.

With the greatest respect, I did not interfere in the writing of the speech of the noble Lord, Lo...

My Lords, I would like to catch the Minister before she sits down, if that is possible. The noble...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Broers, for that comment. I did have a little more flesh on that par...

My Lords, I found part of the Minister’s statement extremely useful and I thank her for that, par...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for that interesting question. If it is okay, I shall writ...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

5: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 18 and 19

My Lords, we come to the end of our discussion today, and I hope that the Minister will be able t...

My Lords, this may be an opportunity for the Minister to play an uncharacteristic square drive. I...

For someone of my age and generation, it was always fashionable to attack the Wilson Governments ...

With the Liberals.

With the Liberals.

We have had rather a lot of history lessons. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, for r...

I want to break the rules and come to the defence of the Box. It is quite unfair to attack the br...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for making that point. I followed the noble Lo...

My Lords, it has been a long 24 hours for many of us, so I am delighted to say that is the nicest...