Ivory Bill

My Lords, I reiterate my declaration of interest as chairman of LAPADA, the art and antiques deal...

My Lords, this amendment would

mean that persons could not ...

My Lords, I think that we want to achieve the same thing here. It is a question of whether the ex...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

37: Clause 12, page 8, line 20, leave out “six ...

My Lords, this is very brief probing amendment. It concerns the discrepancy between the maximum t...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, on this probing amendment. Alth...

My Lords, the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, seeks to increase the maximum prison...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that explanation. We were just trying to establish the fa...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

38: After Clause 13, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 38 in the name of my noble friend Lady Jones and to speak to A...

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, in speaking to Amendment 59. No one who lis...

My Lords, I apologise for not having taken part in the Second Reading debate on the Bill. I was u...

My Lords, I declare an interest as president of the British Art Market Federation, as I did on th...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Sandwich. I declare an interest as a longstanding truste...

My Lords, I am afraid I am going to strike a rather discordant note. I want to focus on Amendment...

My Lords, I support this small group of amendments. As the Minister has said in the past, the Bil...

My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this brief debate. I do not support the amendments, ...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to reporting on enforcement resources and the impact o...

I am sorry. This may be the only intervention that I will make in this Bill but I would like to u...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, for his intervention. As I stated at the start, the operatio...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. I apologise for any confusion. I was unaware that some o...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

39: Clause 14, page 9, line 5, at end insert “, such officer ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 39 and 40. Starting with Amendment 39, Clause 14 grants N...

My Lords, my noble friend’s first proposed amendment would require police or customs officers to ...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister. I look forward to his foreshadowed remar...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee for having failed to address the issue involved in this le...

My Lords, my name is attached to all the other amendments in the group. I need to say very little...

My Lords, I do not wish to detain the House long, because the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge,...

My Lords, I, too, have signed to give notice of opposition to the clause standing part of the Bil...

My Lords, we very much welcome the interventions by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, membe...

My Lords, I express my gratitude to the Constitution Committee for publishing its valuable report...

I am interested to hear examples of the work set out in the letter to which I referred, but can t...

I am waiting for some assistance to give some precise detail, but clearly, with the timber trade,...

My Lords, can my noble friend answer one little question? Will the Ministers be accountable to Pa...

If it would be helpful, as part of BEIS, OPSS does not have a legal identity of its own, as it fa...

Having heard the Minister’s remarks, it struck me that when the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judg...

I am grateful to my noble friend for permitting me to re-emphasise not only that the Government w...

My Lords, I am always willing to talk to the Minister, but the courteous way in which both Minist...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

51: Clause 22, page 14, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) In ...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 52, 54, 56, 57 and 58 in this group. Many antiques, reg...

My Lords, I will make just a few brief comments in response to the noble Lord’s amendments, which...

My Lords, the first amendment in this group would require police and customs officers to take acc...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for her response. I am pleased to hear of her confiden...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

61: Clause 35, page 21, line 3, at end insert—

“( ) ...

My Lords, Amendment 61 is also in the name of my noble friend Lady Jones. As drafted, the Bill ha...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, in this amendment. At Second Reading, the ...

My Lords, the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, seeks to insert into the Bill a...

If I may ask a genuine question, how easy is it for all these officers that we have been talking ...

I shall have to take myself on a course of expertise. If through use of this power it was deemed,...

I thank the Minister for that reply and recognise that the legislation contains the visions that ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

64: Insert the following Preamble—

“Where...

My Lords, this amendment would insert a preamble linking the Bill to the resolution adopted unani...

My Lords, the noble Baroness’s amendment would insert a preamble at the beginning of the Bill to ...

I thank the Minister for that explanation. The purpose of the amendment was to strengthen our han...