Ivory Bill

As drafted, the Bill allows an infinite number of appeals. This concern was raised specifically b...

My Lords, I shall speak to both amendments in this group but deal with Amendment 16 first. Rightl...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her amendment, which would prevent a person applying for...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for that response. He has gone some way to reassurin...

Moved by

Lord Cormack

17: Clause 6, page 5, line 4, leave out “with a surface area of...

My Lords, this amendment and Amendment 18, which are grouped together with a number of other amen...

My Lords, I should like to speak to Amendments 18, 19, 21, 22 and 23 in this group. I will not de...

My Lords, when I spoke earlier on Amendment 5, I meant to declare an interest in that my family’s...

My Lords, in speaking to the amendment I will speak to Amendments 20, 29 and 32, which are in my ...

My Lords, I will briefly comment on Amendment 17, from the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and Amendmen...

My Lords, I wonder if I might add another sentence or two to what we have just heard and to what ...

We will be discussing musical instruments in the next group.

My Lords, I have listened with interest to the debate. On the subject of inlays and escutcheons, ...

My Lords, I have listened to the debate this afternoon with great interest. I have received brief...

I will speak on the amendments in this group. They are amendments to Clauses 6 and 10 regarding o...

My Lords, these amendments relate to exemptions. As I said previously, this part of the Bill has ...

I am not sure that I fully understand my noble friend. Would not these then be modern creations?<...

Not necessarily, my Lords.

For this reason, the criteria of the de minimis exemption includ...

My Lords, I have sat in the other place and this House now for some 48 years. I do not think I ha...

Moved by

Lord Cormack

24: Clause 8, page 5, line 21, leave out “20%” and insert “30%”...

I am sorry it is me again but I feel strongly about these things. In my two amendments and the on...

My Lords, Amendment 26 is in my name and is part of this group. I had very much hoped not to spea...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Cormack is an extremely experienced parliamentarian, but his argum...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Quin, and I thank her for bri...

My Lords, I apologise for jumping the gun earlier—perhaps I should say for coming in on an upbeat...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 26. Given the information that the noble Baroness, Lady Quin...

My Lords, noble Lords would expect me to deal with Amendments 25 and 27 in this group. However, t...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to the exemption definition of musical instruments wit...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to the musical instrument exemption. I say again that ...

I am grateful to the Minister for making that suggestion. I put it to him that one of the things ...

The noble Lord and I are on the same page. That is exactly the sort of requirement that I think w...

I would like to put on record how grateful I am to the Minister for listening to the concerns and...

As ever, the noble Baroness is very generous in saying that.

I wonder whether my noble frie...

The Minister answered a different question.

Given the hour and the debate that follows, perhaps we could explore that another time.

We ...

Of course, I shall withdraw my amendment in a moment. As I said before, I regard my noble friend ...