European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, I wish to move this amendment which has been tabled in my name and those of the noble B...

My Lords, the days that we have spent debating amendments to the Bill have been very dark days fo...

If anybody is doing damage to the reputation of the House, it is my noble friend.

That is a chance I will have to take. I do not agree with the noble Lord. I think that I am speak...

I wonder whether the noble Lord would kindly pay attention to the amendment on the Order Paper th...

I am addressing the amendment and other amendments too.

The House has repeatedly been warne...

Does the noble Lord not feel that, important though the future of this House may be, the future o...

Indeed I do, and I think that in many ways this House has recently been demonstrating its detachm...

Oh!

I am sorry, but if this House thinks it understands what is happening in the world outside, that ...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. The environmental principl...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the climate change committee. That is why I strong...

Of course not.

If my noble friend is going to say that, I shall find it rather difficult to move towards him, be...

My Lords, I wish to confirm exactly what the noble Lord, Lord Deben, just said about the Climate ...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. He laid it out extremely well, b...

Will the noble Baroness give way?

No.

Just briefly?

No, no, no. These protections are for our air, our food, our animals, our countryside and ourselv...

My Lords—

Really? Really?

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. Surely her speech and many other speeches would do very...

I thank the noble Viscount for his intervention. I will most certainly do as he suggests. That is...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. I say to the noble Lord, L...

Will the noble Lord—

No, I will not. I am sorry. The crucial part of the amendment is subsection (4), which talks abou...

My Lords, I was pondering in bed this morning, as one does, about when the change of tone came fr...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I am just contemplating the ca...

I shall no doubt see the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on this matter at a later point because, in fa...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, and the others who have their name to th...

My Lords—

My Lords, may I remind the noble Lord that procedure at Third Reading is the same as for Report, ...

I was going on to emphasise, once again, the ecumenical nature of this whole process, and the tri...

My Lords, this is an important amendment. At various stages, I have spoken very strongly in favou...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, for setting out so clearly the arguments f...

My Lords—

I think the noble Lord has already heard that he cannot intervene, because he has already spoken,...

My Lords—

No, I am not going to give way. The noble Lord has already had several opportunities to intervene...

Would the noble Baroness please give way? It is sensible in debate to give way, and I hope that t...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. The point that I am making—

The noble Lord has not asked for the leave of the House.

With the leave of the House, may I ask a question?

Yes.

Does the noble Baroness accept that nobody is keener on the environment than me, as many people i...

I do not know the noble Lord’s record on the environment; I am sure he will have other opportunit...

I will not support the amendment at this stage; I will probably support it or something similar a...

I thought that I had addressed that. If after Brexit day we are to have the same powers and enfor...

My Lords, it is, frankly, disappointing that this amendment has been tabled today. We have debate...

My Lords, will the noble Lord clarify one thing? He suggested, I think, that we are going to cont...

Yes, I am absolutely confirming that: the principles will continue until the end of the implement...

This is a very important point. Will the means of enforcement continue until the end of the imple...

Yes. All current processes will continue until the end of the implementation period.

The Go...

Does my noble friend mean that, until the end of 2020, we would be able to take an enforcement ac...

My Lords, as we have announced on numerous occasions, there will be further legislation to consid...

Oh!

I ask noble Lords to wait a moment. There will be a further withdrawal agreement and implementati...

I do not know which way to vote, so what the Minister is saying to the House is enormously import...

That is what has been agreed in the implementation period that we have agreed with the EU so far—...

Will the Minister therefore explain why our amendment to allow the ECJ to continue until the end ...

Because there will be separate legislation to consider the implications of the implementation per...

Can I point out to the Minister that we have no agreement that there will be an implementation pe...

I am afraid that the noble Lord is simply wrong: we do have agreement on an implementation period...

My Lords, surely, in the event that there is no deal, we leave on 29 March 2019 and there is no i...

Obviously if there is no deal, we do not have an implementation period—but we are working towards...

I hate to interrupt the Minister again, but I am genuinely confused by his answers to the Cross B...

As the implementation period has already been agreed, it will be the subject of further legislati...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate this afternoon. We have heard...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

2: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I begin by thanking the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy, their officials a...

My Lords, as the author and architect of the earlier amendment on public health, I think that I s...

My Lords, your Lordships will know that I took part in the debate on the amendment tabled by the ...

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Hunt, who is unable to be here today, I fully support...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, for bringing back this important amendment before your L...

Circumstances have not enabled me to participate in previous debates on this subject but I want t...

I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for that helpful intervention. He is, of course, absolutely ...

Bearing in mind that Clause 4 as amended has clear definitions of the protections that were requi...

I always welcome interventions of this nature. On this occasion I think that the Government posit...

My Lords, I am most grateful to everyone who has intervened. As someone who has felt passionately...

Moved by

Baroness Goldie

3: Clause 8, page 6, line 20, after “legislation” insert “so...

My Lords, I shall not detain the House but shall be as swift as possible, because these amendment...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, were the changes in relation to the Welsh devolution settlem...

I have no specific information about that. The amendments are intended to help the Welsh Assembly...

The noble Baroness can move only Amendment 3 at this stage.

Moved by

Baroness Goldie

4: Clause 8, page 6, line 22, after “5(2)” insert “or (4)(a)...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

7: Clause 8, page 7, line 4, at end insert—

“( ) Without ...

My Lords, Amendment 7 is in my name and in the names of three other members of your Lordships’ Co...

My Lords, I will not add to the exposition of the amendment and the reasons for tabling it, which...

My Lords, this is an important question. It is just possible that Clause 8 could be used by the c...

My Lords, the noble Lord’s amendment endeavours to provide a global answer to the question of whe...

I thank the noble and learned Lord for explaining so simply just how complex this issue is. I am ...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Gresford

8: Clause 15, page 13, line 7, at end insert—

...

My Lords, on 2 May on Report, at col. 2148, I pointed out that by reason of subsection (4) of the...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 9 in my name. The Bill was substantially amended on Report wi...

My Lords, to follow what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, has just said, t...

My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresfor...

My Lords, I will speak in support of these amendments. I do so with great trepidation as a non-la...

The noble Lord is very well-meaning in what he suggests. However, is he aware that Mike Russell a...

The noble Lord probably knows more about it than me. I only know what I read in the UK press, whi...

My Lords, it is certainly not my purpose to say or do anything that makes it more difficult to re...

My Lords, I would also like to say a word about giving this Bill a Third Reading, in the absence ...

Could the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, therefore explain why the Labour members of the Scottish P...

My Lord, the wonderful thing about devolution is that it happens within our political parties, ju...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions in this debate. We may be repeating some of...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for his very full reply, and in particular I note hi...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

10: Schedule 3, page 44, line 24, at end insert—

“( ) In...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

12: Schedule 7, page 73, line 32, leave out “that requires” an...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

My Lords, I move the Motion with a tremendous sigh of relief. This is a good time to reflect—brie...

Moved by

Lord Adonis

My Lords, I do not think that the House of Lords has spent longer considering any piece of legisl...

Does the noble Lord not think that he should be rather more honest about his motives? For example...

I very much hope that happens, and I hope that the noble Lord, being a democrat, will support the...

My Lords—

I think that the noble Lord will have an opportunity to make his own speech in a moment, if he wi...

Oh!

I will not give way. Whatever happens hereafter, I am totally unafraid of being abolished for act...

The original Motion was that this Bill do now pass, since when an amendment has been moved to ins...

My Lords, I trust that noble Lords are relieved that I have removed my Motion to Regret from the ...

Oh!

I have saved noble Lords an awful lot of time. I hope that students of Brexit will read what I sa...

My Lords, I would like to say a word about my attempts for Scotland. I am going to read this from...

My Lords, as one who—unlike certain other colleagues—has barely missed an hour of the 156 hours o...

I congratulate the noble Lord on his “hwyl”—

My Lords, my eyes have misted over with gratitude that I have lived long enough to see this happe...

My Lords, in moving the Motion that we are now discussing, the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, made one ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, for this opportunity to say what I want t...

My Lords, I feel provoked to respond, because my noble friend Lord Hamilton of Epsom was kind eno...

Perhaps I may make three brief points or what the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, described as hallucin...

My Lords, it may surprise them, but I begin by congratulating and thanking the Government Front B...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think the view of the House is that we should conclude.

On Second Reading, I re...

My Lords, all of us have travelled a long way—in my case, it seems like an awful long way—over a ...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.