European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, I rise briefly to speak in support of the spirit of the amendment, but first I need to ...

Oh, what a pity.

It would be better because I would like to have been an alderman, really.

My Lords, depending on whether we leave the European Union, the noble Lord might be able to trans...

There are some people who have already offered me a one-way ticket.

I should clear up one m...

My Lords, perhaps I may follow the noble Lord, Lord Porter. When I was a small boy singing in the...

My Lords, I, too, should begin by declaring the usual interest as a vice-president of the Local G...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, drew attention to a significant weakness in our constitut...

My Lords, I refer to my interests in the register as a vice-president of the Local Government Ass...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who participated in what has been a very interesting and wide-r...

My Lords, will those consultative arrangements include a consultative body? If they do not, peopl...

I am coming to that point, but I anticipate that they would. I will just deal with this point, be...

My colleagues in Wales would not forgive me if I missed the opportunity to put it on record that ...

I am not going to be tempted too far down that path, but I shall be tempted a little way. The are...

Can I help the Minister?

Let me finish the point if the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, will allow. If what I said is true, the a...

I think that proves my point.

It was 49.5% yes in the referendum in Monmouth, so it was almost a majority, while all the other ...

I support what the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, said. Is it not ironic that the valleys of south Wale...

Certainly, it is, but before we cause great confusion on the part of anybody tuning in now and th...

I am grateful to the Minister for that. I should make it quite clear that it is not damage inflic...

I am not sure that the noble Lord is absolutely certain of that, because it seemed to be a Tube d...

Indeed, my Lords, I shall do so. I thank the Minister for his response, which is mostly welcome. ...

Does the noble Lord agree that it is crucial that an actual body is established? Will he perhaps ...

I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Adonis. He has made several points which constitutionally are e...

Moved by

Lord Empey

227B: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“Mut...

My Lords, before I speak to the amendment in my name, the noble Lord, Lord Tope, tempts me down m...

My Lords, I support the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Empey. It seems to me, though, that one ...

My Lords, I support this amendment and echo very much the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Deb...

Can I just remind the noble Lord of the debate we had last week on the clinical trials regulation...

I did not want to remind the Government Front Bench of the slaughter of the innocents over clinic...

My Lords, I would say to the noble Lord, Lord Deben, that we are really shooting ourselves in the...

I was going to suggest that there is probably not a Member of the House who should not declare an...

Shortly after the referendum, I was sitting in the orthopaedic surgeon’s office with my wife, who...

My Lords, I hesitate to join in, as I have to declare a double interest. As many of your Lordship...

My Lords, I support the amendment. I remind the House that many of these inventions in the biomed...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. Here we have a successful and innovative industry wi...

My Lords, this medical device amendment has been deemed a probing amendment, and I can tell the n...

Will the Minister explain to noble Lords what effect mutual recognition would have? Can he explai...

I thank the noble Lord for his question. I am again reminded of the importance of the United King...

Will the Minister answer the point made by my noble friend Lord Hunt? It sounds to me that he is ...

I am sorry if I have misled noble Lords. I am unable to answer the question. That will be a matte...

My Lords, the Government have talked about completing the negotiations by October 2018. Is this o...

It is the Government’s intention to complete all negotiations by that point.

I think that a...

My Lords, little did I believe when I moved this amendment that I was going to open up the spectr...

Moved by

Lord Campbell-Savours

227BA: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, under this amendment, if by the end of January 2019 negotiations have not concluded in ...

My Lords, I thought that we would have a longer debate on this matter. I understand the intention...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I am sure he will understand, as indeed will mos...

Moved by

Lord Fox

227BB: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“Recr...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, is unable to attend, so I will move Amendment 227BB in h...

My Lords, my name is not associated with this amendment but I am a regular attender of the London...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a recreational boater and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, fo...

My Lords, in moving this amendment, the noble Lord, Lord Fox, said that it may not be at the fron...

The noble Lord started by saying that this is the nexus of the issues virtually across the piece....

I thank the noble Lord for his probe in this regard. This is, if you like, the epitome of the cha...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for demonstrating his sensitivity to this issue, which will be rea...

Moved by

Lord Warner

227BD: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“P...

My Lords, I shall bring the Committee back to terra firma with this amendment, which is tabled in...

I will speak briefly in support of Amendment 227BD, which is in the name of the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Faculty of Public Health for its briefing. Perhaps I may cast this is...

My Lords, I shall speak very briefly to this amendment and point out two crucial things. One is t...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Warner. I associate myself with t...

I bring the Committee back to the fact that this is a Bill about withdrawal, so we might ask why ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Deben, has pointed out, this is about moving into our law the r...

My Lords, I support this amendment on public health. I feel very strongly on this issue, having p...

My Lords—

My Lords—

My Lords—

Order!

10.15 pm

My Lords, I want to say a few words—a very few, I promise—in support of the amendment. Decent pub...

My Lords—

My Lords—

Order!

For once, I am grateful to the noble Lord opposite. Can I ask one of my colleagues to determine w...

I would just like to put the opposite view. Some of the regulations that we have had to accept fr...

My Lords—

My Lords, it is this side. I have been waiting patiently on this side. I am grateful to the noble...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment and to point out to the Minister that it gives him an o...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to join with others on this important amendment in support o...

My Lords, I support this amendment, which is in the name of my noble friend Lord Warner and other...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate, and we have identified some of the challenges that...

I thank the noble Lord for his comments. I will start where he finished: no, we are not going to ...

Can I make it clear that the Minister is saying that the powers and duties of the Secretary of St...

I am stressing once again that the powers and duties that rest upon a Secretary of State for Heal...

That was not my question. Can the Minister say whether the current powers extend to the devolved ...

No, for one very simple reason. As the noble Lord knows, we cannot impose on the devolved Adminis...

My Lords, there is another way of approaching this, and that is to ask whether the provision in t...

In this instance, it is not part of EU retained law, but that is not the point. We are saying tha...

If it is not part of this Bill, why not? The Government said that they were going to take this in...

Because it is superseded by the power that rests in the hands of all good governments to deliver ...

My Lords, I am grateful to everybody for their contributions in this debate. My score-card shows ...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

227BE: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I raise this issue because the question of the Irish border has increasingly become a m...

My Lords, if I have understood correctly, my noble friend Lord Marlesford is calling for us to re...

I am concerned purely with immigration and the movement of people across borders. I want to make ...

My Lords, your Lordships are going to have to tolerate AP Herbert’s elderly hypochondriac. I than...

I thank the Minister for her comments, which are what I very much expected. The simple fact is th...

Moved by

Lord Broers

227BK: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“I...

My Lords, the amendment would ensure that we maintain the resources needed to remain competitive ...

My Lords, I share with the noble Lord, Lord Broers, many of his concerns about the future of our ...

My Lords, I find that slightly strange from the noble Viscount. We do have a choice over our expe...

My Lords, when the Minister replies eloquently as she always does, could she try to explain to th...

I want to point out two things in response to the noble Viscount. First, I have introduced this a...

My Lords, I recall many years ago in private practice acting on the instruction of the late Lord ...

My Lords, can the noble and learned Lord remember what price he fixed it at? How does it compare ...

My Lords, that was a mischievous intervention by my noble friend, which the noble and learned Lor...

Before the Minister stands up, perhaps I might ask for some clarification. The draft transition a...

My Lords, having listened to the very distinguished contributions, I can say that I bring to this...

My Lords, I ask the Minister again to clarify—this has to be clarified because it is in the draft...

I am sorry, but I do not have a specific response to the noble Lord. I shall find out and write t...

My Lords, I am encouraged that the Government are going to be conscientious and provide all these...

Moved by

Lord Adonis

230: Schedule 7, page 41, line 40, leave out paragraphs (2) and ...

I should remind your Lordships that if Amendment 230 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 231 t...

My Lords, speaking in the middle of the night I see my role as being purely a silent John the Bap...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 240. I am really not cut out for the role that the noble Lor...

My Lords, we support that. It is particularly important for the new SIs that will deal with funct...

In order to indicate cross-party support, I will say that I support this amendment.

My Lords, I am just wondering whether the noble Lord who moved this amendment is thinking that th...

My Lords, I think that if it were an SI concerned only with imposing a fee or charge, noble Lords...

My Lords, we have spent, if not many happy hours, then certainly a significant period of time con...

My Lords, before the noble Baroness leaves the issue of fees, it was fairly clear earlier that th...

Further to that point, am I not right in thinking that the reference back under the amendment to ...

I have undertaken to look at the contributions to the debate. I have not suggested that all matte...

My Lords, the noble Baroness is so mellifluous and so reasonable when she says that she is not ac...

Moved by

Lord Lisvane

237: Schedule 7, page 44, line 35, leave out from beginning to ...

My Lords, I will move Amendment 237 and speak to Amendments 237A and 239A. One of the host of ext...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

237A: Schedule 7, in subsection (4)(b), at end insert “, or

I declare my interest as chair of the Hansard Society, whose work on delegated legislation will b...

My Lords, I am an eternal optimist, which somehow goes with the territory of being a Liberal.

My Lords, we can already see this evening what will be the Government’s formula to get these stat...

My Lords, I support the amendments that have already been spoken to most eloquently by the noble ...

My Lords, I confess that when I first came to your Lordships’ House I never imagined that I would...

Perhaps I can help on the point about whether the Commons can reconsider something that it has no...

I understand the point the noble Lord makes, but if we remember the reasons it was brought forwar...

My Lords, before responding to these amendments in turn, I should like to take this opportunity t...

The situation that the noble Baroness described, in which the sifting committee has made a recomm...

I did say that it would indeed be for the Government to justify their position in that situation,...

On the urgent procedures, why in the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill is there a 60-day period,...

The procedure, including in EU exit-related legislation such as the customs Bill, must reflect th...

Yes, I feel able to withdraw my amendment, but want to make one comment before I do so. The Minis...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Leader of the House for setting out in such detail what ...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

238: Schedule 7, page 45, line 23, at end ins...

My Lords, this is the graveyard shift, but graveyard shift or not I shall speak also to Amendment...

My Lords, the amendments in this group all seek to address a long-standing problem with statutory...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 247, which seeks to do precisely that. I am delighted to hav...

My Lords, I am delighted to support Amendment 247 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntos...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 248 in my name. Because of the lateness of the hour I will s...

My Lords, I have to say that I have been called many things in my life, but the appellation by th...

I should like the Minister to envisage that she is responding on behalf of the Government to a de...

That would of course entirely depend on the circumstances of the instrument, the extent of the ch...

If the Government are not minded to accept an amendment to statutory instruments under these circ...

I respond to my noble friend as I did to the noble Lord, Lord Beith. That hypothetical situation ...

A moment ago, the Minister said that we would effectively be according to statutory instruments t...

I have tried to make it clear that we are not attempting to equate delegated legislation with pri...

I was wondering if my noble friend had any special comment on proposed new sub-paragraph (4) in A...

At this time of night my reading qualities are not at their most alert. May I look at that in mor...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her reply. She short-changed herself in only one sense: tha...