European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

And in an unamendable sense, because it is to be done by resolution—there can be no amendment to ...

The noble Viscount reinforces the point which I am trying to make. The Explanatory Notes explain ...

Without reference to Parliament.

Is this reasonable without reference to Parliament, or to the lightest sifting procedure where an...

I would always include it.

I think we are making the same point, which is that it either conceals inadequate thought, or it ...

My Lords, if this Amendment is agreed, I cannot call Amendments 72 or 73 because of pre-emption.<...

My noble friend Lord Tyler has added his name to Amendments 71, 116, 253 and 257. Unfortunately, ...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak to this group of amendments and support those spoken...

My Lords, if I may just follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Lang, I often say that this House’s r...

Not only that, but the more tightly constrained the language of the Bill, the more readily the co...

I thank the noble Viscount for that intervention. At the moment, the courts very rarely intervene...

My Lords, from this side of the Committee I shall speak to Amendment 244A, in my name, which come...

My Lords, I have added my name to a number of amendments that delete “appropriate” and insert “ne...

My Lords, I add my voice to those who are expressing caution. I sympathise with Ministers. Someho...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Wilson, said that it was 50 years since he had practised as a lawy...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow five or six scintillating and convincing speeches, all...

My Lords, I rise to speak primarily —subject to pre-emption, whatever that means—to Amendments 73...

My Lords, my name is on some of these amendments. I will be extremely brief. We are now at the co...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lang, pointed out that we are a bit thin on the ground for such an...

My Lords, the existence of these powers in the Bill has created an apprehension in a lot of peopl...

My Lords, these are hugely important amendments. The Minister will have noted that not a single M...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. Taking his point, if you were to combine the certifi...

I am grateful to the noble Viscount. I would go further. First, I would say that the amendment ne...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords very much for what has been an excellent debate. I use the word “de...

Is my noble friend saying that he has made his mind up—or the Government have made their collecti...

If my noble friend will forgive me, I will discuss that in a second.

Ministers make their d...

Can the noble Lord give an example of where something is not really needed? Surely the whole poin...

If the noble Lord will have a little patience I will get on to that in a second.

If regulat...

Is the Minister saying that he will not accept these amendments because he might be defeated in c...

I think I have made my position clear on that but, nevertheless, I also said that we are listenin...

I beg my noble friend to talk to his ministerial colleagues and think again, otherwise the Govern...

I said at the start that I am setting out a position, but I have heard the messages that came to ...

The noble Lord was helpful in trying to give an example for something else. Could he give an exam...

I do not have any additional examples beyond the ones I have already given, but I will certainly ...

My Lords, I thank the 13 noble Lords who spoke on the amendment, all of whom were unanimous in th...

Moved by

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

73A: Clause 7, page 5, line 7, at end insert ...

My Lords, when we discussed Clause 2 and the Constitution Committee’s amendments, I said I did no...

My Lords, I am tempted to send some cough sweets to the noble Baroness to help her: she certainly...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

80: Clause 7, page 5, line 39, leave out sub...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendment 82, which itself is amended—or, in truth, corrected—by A...

My Lords, I support Amendment 80 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter. I cannot speak f...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s Amendment 82. Yet again it is the issue of using secondary ...

My Lords, I follow my noble friend Lady Ludford in querying what is intended by Clause 7(3) and h...

My Lords, this has been a short but interesting debate covering an important point. When my minis...

I am speaking to only a part of Amendment 82 and to Amendment 82A —in other words, to the bits ab...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. I am looking at my speaking notes. It is a little diffi...

I emailed the Minister’s advisers very early this morning and spoke to them earlier, so I would h...

I thank the noble Baroness. I shall soldier on as best I can with the material I have. By way of ...

Before the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, responds, forgive me, but I am not sure I have entirely g...

I would say to the noble Baroness that our elected counterparts in the other place were able to s...

I took it as quite a significant move on the Government’s part for the noble Baroness, Lady Goldi...

I am not one to spurn the comments of attractive gentlemen, particularly when they are honeyed co...

I thank the noble Baroness for that. Obviously, we will come on to a grouping of amendments speci...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

81: Clause 7, page 5, line 46, leave out “, c...

My Lords, I am most grateful to speak to Amendment 81, which for these purposes is joined with Am...

My Lords, I speak only to Amendment 227C, just to say that this is a sort of “double omnibus” ame...

In the absence of my noble friend Lord Bassam, I just want to encourage the Minister—though I am ...

My Lords, Amendment 81 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, concerns th...

Although Amendment 244, in the name of my noble friend Lord Bassam, asks for,

“a certificat...

No. As I have made clear throughout the Bill, our minds are not closed on many of these matters. ...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister and to all who have contributed to this little group...

Amendment 82A, which is an amendment to Amendment 82, therefore falls.

Amendment 83

Moved by

Lord Newby

83: Clause 7, page 6, line 11, leave out paragraph (b)

My Lords, this amendment simply asserts a long-established principle of British practice and law,...

My Lords, the difficulty with having been in this House for a number of years is that all these d...

My Lords, I rise to take the place of my noble friend Lord O’Donnell, who unfortunately cannot be...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Newby, was kind enough to refer to my amendment, which was prob...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Newby on one specific reason why it is primary legislati...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments. I believe that public bodies should be establ...

My Lords, it must be inherently undemocratic for bodies that have significant obligations, for in...

My Lords, I think the good news is that we heard a hint earlier that this might be one of the are...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to respond to the debate, if only to confound all the prejudi...

My Lords, I am most grateful to everybody who has spoken in this debate and to the Minister for h...