Trade Bill

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 19 in this group. At Second Reading of this Bill, the Mi...

My Lords, when I first came to your Lordships’ House just over five years ago, I found some of th...

My Lords, the irony of this is that, if the EU was pursuing this activity, it would have to make ...

Could I just add to the points made by noble Lords? All this has been said before, when we discus...

My Lords, your Lordships’ House has the privilege of having as Members a number of former Europea...

My Lords, I will address Amendment 18 first. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, and al...

My Lords, could I ask the Minister for clarification? Has she just said that she believes that, 1...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, for the further question, and will try to reassure her. ...

I do not think anyone on these Benches has said that the UK Government should be holding the othe...

I say to the noble Lord that we are actively working and engaging with them. It is for them to de...

Before the noble Baroness goes on to the next amendment, could she answer a question that I asked...

“I will write to the noble Lord”?

My Lords, I will try to do a little better than that. I can write to clarify, but my understandin...

I am sorry, but I must repeat a point that has been made by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and o...

I believe that the noble Baroness has misinterpreted what I said. I did not say that we would wai...

May I try asking the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Fox, another way round? Are the Gover...

My Lords, I can confirm that that is why we want to have an agreement with an implementation peri...

I wish to have one final go on Amendment 18. It is predicated on what the Government are working ...

My Lords, if I may address the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, if we leave with a deal...

I apologise, but can the Minister then confirm whether my understanding is wrong? I understand th...

My Lords, what I can say is that all the countries we have spoken to have agreed with the princip...

Is the Minister familiar with the practice in the European Parliament which currently applies? Th...

My Lords, I know the European process in outline; I cannot say that I understand it in the depth ...

I go back to an earlier question asked by the noble Lord, about whether or not the Government are...

My Lords, on the 11.01 pm—or one minute past midnight—point, technical notices have already been ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and to noble Lords who have taken part. The Minister said...

My Lords, I have to rebut the statement made by the noble Lord that it would enhance relations wi...

All these countries have negotiated deals with the EU. In the process of those negotiations, ther...

Again, when countries are in the middle of negotiations, blow-by-blow accounts or reporting stage...

One element that concerns us is when Ministers move seamlessly from saying that this is merely a ...

Moved by

Baroness Henig

20: Clause 3, page 3, line 39, at end insert—

“( ) A re...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 20 and speak to Amendment 21. Both amendments touch on the imp...

My Lords, my noble friend has done us a great service in introducing this amendment with consider...

My Lords, I should have stood up earlier, but I was being polite. It seems the system set out in ...

My Lords, I begin by addressing Amendment 20, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Henig. The Gover...

I wonder if the Minister might just be able to clarify what may be my misreading of the legislati...

My Lords, if the change is literally a cut and paste, I am not sure it would help your Lordships ...

My Lords, I have listened very carefully to what the Minister has said. I take the point about sp...

Moved by

Baroness Henig

22: Clause 4, page 4, line 10, at end insert “and Ministers h...

My Lords, I will be extremely brief—I am sure that noble Lords will be happy about that—in moving...

My Lords, once again I support the amendments of my noble friend Lady Henig; I will also speak ag...

My Lords, I too will try to give a short response to the amendments before us, and first on Amend...

I thank the Minister for her response, and particularly for the additional information that she h...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

24: After Clause 5, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, this amendment, for which I am grateful for the support of the noble Lords, Lord Patten...

My Lords, I can be very brief in supporting this amendment, which has my name on it. Saying that ...

I am happy to support this amendment—although I realise that happiness is a relative concept. We ...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Patten of Barnes, especially ...

My Lords, I hope that the Government will listen to what the noble Lord, Lord Patten, said in his...

I have been listening to this brilliant speech, and I am just wondering whether I can believe my ...

It is. Ultimately, I believe that the choice is going to be that we either stay in the customs un...

My Lords, I do not want to go on at length about this issue, not least because I agree so wholehe...

I am trying to understand the noble Lord. Obviously, the definition of a customs union is quite d...

When I talk about a customs union, I mean—as the WTO would interpret it—where we share a customs ...

My Lords, I will not go into the matter of the definite or the indefinite article, which I think ...

Could I check with the noble Lord: is he agreeing with me that the political declaration actually...

That question should perhaps be addressed to the Prime Minster, who might find some difficulty an...

My Lords, I am not convinced of the merit of this amendment. Actually, I have taken comfort from ...

My Lords, to be brief, as some others have put it, and with the greatest of respect, as the noble...

My Lords, I will briefly express my support for the amendment. It is very important in the presen...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. The noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, was very brief and ...

The Government’s position, already stated, is that it intends the future customs arrangement to b...

We have been very clear about this; we want a deep and special facilitated trading arrangement wi...

A brilliant description of the disadvantages of being stuck in a backstop.

That is the reason why we want to avoid the backstop.

Surely the best alternative way of benefiting from the growth outside the mature economies of wes...

Because 17.4 million people decided that they wanted to leave, and that is what the Government ar...

Before the Minister sits down, I wonder whether he could advance this clarity. The noble Baroness...

The committee will come to rules of origin shortly, but on that point, that is the reason why, in...

My Lords, it is impossible to summarise what has been a very wide-ranging discussion. It certainl...

The noble Lord has mentioned size twice. Can he explain why Chile, which is a smaller country tha...

Maybe Dr Fox has an analogue that we do not know about, hopping around. “I do not know” is the an...

Perhaps I can help the noble Lord. One reason why Chile has such good agreements around the world...

In a spirit of mutual congratulation, I think it best to say that on this occasion we will withdr...