European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Moved by

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

144: Clause 9, in paragraph (a), after “EU” inser...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow my noble friend Lord Monks. I support the fundamental aim of Ame...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Monks in his excellent introduction and other noble Lord...

Is the noble Baroness aware that we are in this situation, which I agree is a serious one, becaus...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. We have said from the start that UK citizens’ rights...

My Lords, Amendment 146 is an amendment to the one just moved by the noble Lord, Lord Monks, whic...

My Lords, I am pleased to announce that this is the last speech I shall make in Committee on the ...

Shame.

Well, when tempers got a bit frayed on Monday evening, I thought, “Well, I’ll make the next one m...

My Lords, since this is my noble friend’s last speech in Committee on the Bill and as we are so d...

The short answer to that is no. I will give the evidence as my final point. In 2013, the coalitio...

I spent a lot of my time in government negotiating the 32 reports in the balance of competences r...

My Lords, I rest my case.

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 147A, which proposes a requirement to seek ongoing reciprocal...

Is the noble Lord suggesting that Royal Ascot may not happen next year if these matters are not f...

I know that the whole question of Royal Ascot and the timing of the Queen’s Speech last year was ...

It is worth making the point that we are not talking about income for massive, rich clubs. We are...

I completely endorse that point. This is not just about the top clubs in the Premier League; it i...

My Lords, my Amendment 147B is in this rather diverse group of amendments. I declare an interest ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 147C. In this rather pick-and-mix debate, as we go from one ...

The noble Baroness described this as a pick-and-mix debate. Is there not one thing in common, tha...

The noble Lord makes an excellent comment. I am not in any way undermining the debate. I said tha...

I wonder if my noble friend could add just one more example. She and I and the Minister—before he...

My noble friend makes a very good point. The uncertainty is already having an impact on the space...

Will the noble Baroness explain one point? She has set out a range of extremely important issues,...

The noble Lord underestimates the level of wisdom and expertise that sits within Parliament. The ...

Perhaps I may ask the Minister a question in relation to these amendments—I am sorry that I was a...

My noble friend Lord Stevenson invited me to add my words to what he was saying, and I am very gl...

My Lords, unlike for the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, this is my first as well as last contribution t...

My Lords, 20 months after the referendum we are no closer to knowing what the UK will look like i...

My Lords, I support Amendment 142 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Monks, to which I also have...

My Lords, I support Amendment 147A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, to which my name is ...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Puttnam, spoken to...

My Lords, I rise to add my support to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Puttnam, ...

My Lords, I rise to add a few words to what has been said already. In particular, I will focus my...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I ask him the same question that I asked the noble Lord, Lord Ro...

Not immediately.

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Monks said, we in Parliament appear at the moment to be mere sp...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 147A, to which I have added my name. The world of sport, as t...

My Lords, there is a theme that recurs in many of our debates on the Bill; and perhaps in this de...

Why, therefore, did Gina Miller have to take the Government to the High Court?

That is a separate issue—but we respected the outcome and the Article 50 Bill was, of course, app...

My Lords, does the Minister not see a profound contradiction in his remarks? He has praised the r...

Of course Parliament should express its view—but there are a number of ways in which it can do so...

Access to information does not constitute the proper exercise of sovereignty.

Having access to that information helps to inform the views of parliamentarians for their many sp...

Will the Minister answer the crucial point made by the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan: will there be f...

I am sure that it will be at the forefront of our negotiation priorities, given the close interes...

Oh!

I may regret that.

I am not sure I missed the noble Lord quite so much.

Touché, as they say.

We are committed to exploring with the EU the terms on which the UK co...

Is it possible to have an answer to the only question that I asked? Are we going to stay a member...

I cannot give an absolute guarantee that we will; it is a matter for the negotiations. However, I...

Listening to the Minister, it occurs to me that this group of amendments endorses almost precisel...

I think I have made clear that we are not going to accept them because we do not want our negotia...

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply, but could he comment on a point made by my nobl...

The Prime Minister did indeed refer to these important level playing field issues and said that w...

If I recall, the Prime Minister promised binding commitments in the area of state aid and competi...

I will allow the Prime Minister’s words to speak for themselves.

It is in the interests of ...

My Lords, the Minister seems to be reaching the end of his remarks. In replying to matters raised...

I fear that I will disappoint the noble Lord yet again. It is of course a vital subject. We are c...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. I have heard every word of this debate and have refrained ...

I can only apologise for disappointing my noble friend. Of course, we take very different views o...

I thank my noble friend for giving way. Can he confirm that he said that the Government want to r...

I apologise to the noble Baroness, but I do not think I used the word “flexible” in respect of th...

Will the Minister accept that it is not an agency? Get briefed. Have a look at the annual report ...

The noble Lord is right: it is not an agency. I was referring to the food safety agency. As I hav...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment standing in my name on the Order Paper.

My Lords, I thank all the contributors to this debate. Amendment 142 was love bombed by many nobl...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

150: Clause 9, page 7, line 9, at end insert...

My Lords, I move Amendment 150, which also appears in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Wallace ...

My Lords, my name is to this amendment. I think most of us would agree that Clause 9 as it stands...

My name is on the second amendment in this group, Amendment 151. I am most grateful to my noble f...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 151, courtesy of my noble friend Lord Adonis, who is moving...

Can I point out to the noble Lord that it is of course possible that the European Parliament’s co...

With the noble Lord’s usual foresight he has accurately pre-empted what I am going on to say. Tha...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 190 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Roberts of Ll...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 216 and 217 in my name. I will come to the detail in a mome...

This debate should be what I think is called a “no-brainer” for anybody who believes in parliamen...

My Lords, I want to direct the Committee’s attention to the fact that in the process of defending...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 196.

My Lords, I think it is fairly reasonable as someone putting forward Amendment 150 that I should ...

My Lords, I just want to get Amendment 196 on the record, because it makes helpful points which s...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I agree very much with what he said about the speeches from the ...

If the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, thinks there is a danger, we will have to look at it again because ...

One of the benefits of the Grieve amendment, as inserted, is that it refers to approving the “fin...

I agree very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, is saying. That is why I think that the...

Will my noble friend allow me to interrupt to check that I have understood what has been said in ...

My noble friend is making a good point, but I think that the vacuum that we potentially face is t...

My Lords—

My Lords—

My Lords, the Chief Whip has asked me to indicate that there is some concern about the availabili...