Trade Bill

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 9, 15, 25 and 26 which are in my name. I also want to sup...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 13. The purpose of my amendment is extremely clear: to seek ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 14 and I join in supporting Amendment 13 and much of the s...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 10. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, fo...

My Lords, I support the sentiments behind most of the amendments in the group, although perhaps n...

Like the noble Baroness, Lady Young, I welcome the sentiment behind the amendments—in fact, I wel...

I thank the noble Lord for his comments. I wish I could say that I had thought that far ahead. If...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and thank him for having introduced this de...

My Lords, I have not put my name to any of these amendments, but I am very sympathetic to them an...

I thank the noble Baroness for her question; I seem to be answering more questions than the Gover...

I thank the noble Baroness; I assumed that she would mean exactly that. However, it poses some qu...

The noble Baroness is putting forward a powerful argument about the interests and well-being of t...

I hope that I relayed that in what I said earlier. It is hugely important. We are very lucky in t...

My Lords, I want to raise what probably feels like a niche issue from a slightly different angle;...

My Lords, I fully accept the Government’s assurances in relation to this group of amendments that...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. We have stressed throughout the debates about...

I bow to the superior knowledge of the noble Baroness in this area and I hope that my noble frien...

My Lords, I agree with much of what has been said in the debate and your Lordships will be please...

My Lords, the amendments in this group relate to the standards in regulations in rolling over EU ...

My Lords, the richness and intensity of this debate demonstrates the expertise in this Committee ...

The Minister has just said that our public services are not at threat from this agreement or any ...

I would refer to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, for example. Nothing...

I completely understand what my noble friend the Minister says about the United States. That is f...

I can clarify that the UK’s public health sector is protected by specific exceptions and reservat...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister when she has gone past what I was particularly concerne...

I am seeking to reassure the House because what we are agreeing in the withdrawal agreement is th...

There is one small flaw in the short term, which is that we will not have that Bill completed or ...

The noble Baroness raises an important point. That is why we are seeking an agreement and impleme...

I am sorry, but I have a question for the Minister—this may be my mistake in not having followed ...

My understanding is that the OEP will be an independent statutory environmental body that will ho...

I think the Minister understands that there is a difference. It is often said that this body can ...

Before the Minister responds, I would like to say that we do not have that Bill in front of us. W...

That well illustrates the fact that the Minister and the Government should not pray in aid a body...

I thank my noble friend Lady Byford for saying those words. This is a Bill, and the whole purpose...

The whole point of this group of amendments is to have that commitment written into the Bill. Doe...

The view of the Government is that it is very clear under the withdrawal Act, as well as under ou...

If the Government agree with everything that we are saying, why not put it in the Bill? Why not m...

My guidance is that it is because it will already happen as a result of the withdrawal Act so it ...

I am sorry, I know it is late. To use CRaG as the safety net for this seems to be rather the wron...

Earlier in the debate, we went through the process for agreeing these continuity agreements. We h...

I am grateful to the Minister. She may have got the author of Amendment 53 slightly mixed up in h...

There is one other argument: whatever the good will, whatever the intention and whatever the comm...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. He has been a leader in this regard. He will remember when ...