European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

It is our money.

That is the constant refrain from the leavers. We heard it all through the referendum campaign: “...

My Lords, I apologise that I missed the first minute of the noble Lord’s speech. I want to stress...

My Lords, I warmly thank my noble friend for having put this amendment before the Committee. I sh...

My Lords, I am delighted to support Amendment 23, moved by my noble friend Lord Foulkes, and I co...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-chair of the Local Government Association. I support th...

My Lords, I add my support to Amendment 23, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, from an enviro...

My Lords, we are still formally on Clause 3, and I had the benefit over the short dinner break of...

I can tell the noble Lord and, indeed, the Minister that there will be a probing amendment on par...

The group that we are dealing with is not actually mine but, with the leave of the Committee, I w...

I am very grateful for that response; I think that might help us in our further discussions.

Before the noble Lord leaves the issue of the European Investment Bank, I raised a question in th...

My Lords, I am afraid we again get into the Alice in Wonderland world here, as we were in the deb...

My Lords, I do not like to start by contradicting my noble friend, but I have not heard the Gover...

My Lords, first, I thank your Lordships for a genuinely interesting and very helpful and useful d...

The Minister said that the Government would consult about the shared prosperity fund later this y...

I shall come on to that and endeavour to address the points that the noble Lord has raised. I was...

I thank the Minister for saying what she has said. That is true about adult social care, but we n...

I assure the noble Earl that I am listening to what he says.

The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, s...

With respect, these are fine words beautifully delivered, but the word “guarantee”, which my nobl...

The noble Lord would not expect me to be able to deliver specific information on figures. That wo...

The noble Baroness says it is unreasonable to expect figures, and there is a certain amount of sy...

I heard what the noble Lord said and I am coming to that; I hope what I am about to say will reas...

One of the core principles of the EU cohesion funds is the element of additionality. In previous ...

What I can say to the noble Lord is that we are in new territory. We are leaving the EU and havin...

Can I ask an additional question? Interreg is very much about cross-border schemes and co-operati...

It will in as much as, post Brexit, the United Kingdom will work within each of its component par...

Not necessarily with southern Ireland?

I think that, in the first instance, as we look at how we will fund different parts of the United...

This will be the last time I trouble the noble Baroness. On the Interreg question, one area that ...

I thank the noble Lord; I think he raised an important point. The Government, as my noble and lea...

My Lords, this debate has ranged rather more widely than I had expected, and the noble Baroness h...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but as a representative of the sons-in-law of Lord Thomson...

How can I contradict a son-in-law? Without my noble friend Lord Liddle being present to advise me...

I cannot call Amendment 25A, as it is an amendment to Amendment 25.

Amendment 26

Moved by

Lord Pannick

26: Clause 4, page 3, line 4, leave out paragraph (b)

Amendment 26 is another amendment arising from the report of the Constitution Committee and stand...

My Lords, when I was a young barrister doing cases in strange places such as Caernarfon Crown Cou...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 28, in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 28, tabled in the name of my noble friend Lord Krebs and the noble ...

My Lords, Clause 4 contains many ambiguities, some of which have been helpfully pointed out by th...

My Lords, we have spent a lot of time today trying to define what is a snapshot and what could gi...

My Lords, in welcoming Amendment 28 I note that it supplements Clause 4 in a way that can be cons...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 28, although my colleagues the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, and...

My Lords, I shall speak very briefly, first, because it is already past my bedtime and, secondly,...

I rise to seek clarification on the precise objective of Clause 4(2)(b) in this whole pattern of ...

My Lords, the reason I dare to intervene at all is that I have always had a great interest in con...

My Lords, I start by affirming that we on these Benches—or what is left of us—support the thrust ...

My Lords, I rise to respond to these amendments with one very clear thought in my mind: I wish my...

The Minister has just said that it would be inappropriate to rectify omissions or incorrect trans...

Can I repeat something that I have raised in the Chamber before and about which I had corresponde...

In response to the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, and the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, we must go back ...

I thank all those who have spoken in this debate, and in particular the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, w...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

27: Clause 4, page 3, line 7, at end insert—

“( ) are the...

My Lords, this is another amendment that comes from the Constitution Committee. It suggests that ...

My Lords, at this late hour, I am more than content to rely on the amendment moved by the noble L...

My Lords, this will be brief, because my soulmate and prop has deserted me. With this amendment, ...

The noble Baroness is bringing out an explanation which the committee has already considered and ...

I thank the noble Lord very much indeed. I am sure my noble and learned friend Lord Keen does not...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. The problem is, as I sought to explain, that under exis...