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My Lords, hybrid proceedings will now resume. Some Members are here in the Chamber, respecting so...
Moved by
Lord Purvis of Tweed
39: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
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I beg to move.
I call the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich. No? Then I call the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester.
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, and the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan, for bringing ...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke to Amendment 39 on Thursday and the noble Lord, Lord ...
My Lords, I am grateful to those who have spoken within this group, even with the slightly disjoi...
I have taken note of a number of questions raised by the noble Lord and I think it best to addres...
I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 42. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...
Moved by
Lord Purvis of Tweed
42: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, has said on a number of occasions: tr...
My Lords, I was quite surprised to find the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, concentrating on th...
My Lords, I shall be brief, as my noble friend Lord Purvis has already made a characteristically ...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for giving me the opportunity to probe on...
The noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Bassam of B...
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for putting forward this amendment. ...
My Lords, I welcome this amendment, put down by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, and the nob...
I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Purvis.
My Lords, of course I look forward to receiving another letter from the Minister. I hope that he ...
We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 46. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...
Moved by
Lord Fox
46: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
“Trade a...
My Lords, Amendment 46 is in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed, the noble...
My Lords, in speaking in strong support of the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Fox, I wil...
My Lords, I support this amendment, which seeks to secure the continued success of the UK’s trade...
My Lords, I had initially intended to take part in the debate on this amendment solely for the pu...
My Lords, this is a very important impendent indeed, and we have cause to be grateful to all thos...
My Lords, I will focus on the narrow words in the amendment on
“the same reciprocal rights ...
My Lords, I speak from my background as somebody who has worked in logistics. I will not enter in...
My Lords, I speak to offer the Green group’s support for Amendment 46 and closely associate mysel...
My Lords, I too support the amendment. It is very important, and noble Lords who have spoken have...
My Lords, we all owe a great deal of thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for his amendment and fo...
My Lords, I turn to Amendment 46, regarding the parameters of the UK’s future relationship with t...
I thank the Minister and all speakers in this short debate. As others have said, the noble Earl, ...
I am not able to call Amendment 48A by reason of pre-emption.
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 54. I remind noble Lords again that anyone wish...
Moved by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
54: After Clause 2, insert the following new ...
My Lords, I am delighted to move Amendment 54 and speak to Amendment 55, which is in my name and ...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure, as ever, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and speak...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Henig, and to act as a co-sig...
My Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity to say a few words about these two amendments. I can...
My Lords, I will take issue with the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, in a moment. In the meantime, I wo...
My Lords, first, I want to associate myself with the remarks of my noble friend Lord Lansley. I a...
My Lords, although, as the amendment states firmly, it is not exclusively concerned with the issu...
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, and I agree with him that we should a...
My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with the points made by the movers of this amendment in their ...
My Lords, we have had yet another interesting debate where the expertise of noble Lords has been ...
My Lords, I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lords, Lord Lansley...
I am grateful to my noble friend for his response to the debate. I want to make one point. I fear...
My Lords, I have nothing to add to those perceptive comments from my noble friend.
My Lords, I am grateful for the clarification from the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. I think that we ...
I thank the noble Lord for his question. We will come to GSPs in a later debate; if the perceptiv...
I am grateful to those noble Lords who contributed. I would be most grateful if my noble friend c...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 58. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...
Moved by
Lord Hain
58: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
“Trade ...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 58 on the Irish protocol, I will speak to Amendments 59, 65 and 82 ...
The noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Do...
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hain, as a co-signatory of these amendmen...
My Lords, I agree with Amendment 58 and I hope all noble Lords agree with it, because it is our s...
It is always a pleasure to speak to an amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Hain on Northern I...
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity with this small group of amendments to press forward some of ...
My Lords, I wish to speak only to Amendment 82 in this group. I generally try not to speak on mat...
My Lords, I will be brief. The noble Lord, Lord Hain, and the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, have ...
My Lords, in his eloquent speech, the noble Lord, Lord Hain, set out the background and the histo...
My Lords, we have had a very interesting debate at a very high level. Of course, that is inevitab...
My Lords, the amendments in this group all relate to various aspects of the Northern Ireland prot...
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Stevenson and all those who have spoken in this d...
We come now to Amendment 64. I remind noble Lords, as before, that anyone wishing to speak after ...
Moved by
Lord Lansley
64: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
“Tra...
My Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity to move Amendment 64, the purpose of which is to see...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has succinctly made the case. The final countdown to the ...
My Lords, I certainly support all that my noble friend Lord Lansley said about the importance of ...
My Lord, I personally welcome the idea of the Secretary of State laying a report before Parliamen...
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for moving this amendment. It has a...
My Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for his amendment on trade promo...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for his amendment and his wise words in his introd...
I am most grateful to the Minister for his response and to all those who took part in the debate....
We now come to Amendment 66—Lord Stevenson of Balmacara. I understand that neither the noble Lord...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 68. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...
Moved by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
68: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—...
My Lords, we come now to Amendments 68 and 76A, which are being taken together. Amendment 76A sup...
My Lords, I apologise for not being here at the start of this Committee. I had to chair the Econo...
As the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, has withdrawn, I call the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner of Margrav...
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord Forsyth. The nob...
My Lords, I salute my noble friend Lord Alton for bringing the amendment forward in the style to ...
Owing to an error in the listing, the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, will speak later. Meanwhile...
My Lords, like other noble Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for his consistent...
I understand that the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, has withdrawn so I call the noble Lord, Lord J...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for introducing this amendment. I agree absolutely ...
My Lords, I hope noble Lords can hear me; my computer is claiming that my bandwidth is low, but I...
The noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, has withdrawn, as has the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downp...
My Lords, I have great sympathy for the thinking that lies behind these amendments, and I have hu...
My Lords, it is imperative that we support Amendment 68, proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Alton o...
My Lords, this has been a passionate debate on an appalling subject: the brutality of man against...
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for his amendment and his excellent spee...
My Lords, I turn to Amendments 68 and 76A in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Alton of Liverpool...
There are no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverp...
My Lords, first, I thank the Minister for the way in which he has addressed the Committee, but al...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 70. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...
Moved by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
70: After Clause 2, insert the following new ...
My Lords, I am delighted to speak to Amendments 70 and 95. The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, had very ...
My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity, in this group, to follow my noble friend Lady McInto...
My Lords, I will speak only to Amendment 70 in this group. We voted to leave the EU on 23 June 20...
My Lords, I rise as someone with many years of experience in supply chains, including just-in-tim...
My Lords, I shall speak first, briefly, to linked Amendments 70 and 95, in the names of the noble...
My Lords, when I saw this grouping, I hoped that these speeches would identify the golden thread ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for their ...
My Lords, I do not know about fishing expeditions, but let me turn to Amendment 70 in the name of...
My Lords, I have received a request from the noble Lord, Lord Fox, to speak after the Minister.
The Minister said in his repudiation of, or comments on, my points that businesses have no excuse...
The noble Lord makes a very good point and I hope that he will not take this as being unempatheti...
My Lords, I think my noble friend was doing quite well until that last remark. Saying “four years...
My Lords, we come now to the group commencing with Amendment 71. I remind noble Lords that anyone...
Moved by
Lord Freyberg
71: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
“Tr...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, for the opportunity to speak today about trade ...
My Lords, I wholeheartedly support the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, to pro...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, is to be congratulated on bringing these amendments to t...
My Lords, I will address Amendments 71 and 72, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones and ...
I have received no requests to speak after the Minister so I call the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg.<...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his helpful reply. I will take him up on his offer to facilita...
We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 77. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...
Moved by
Baroness Hayman
77: Clause 6, page 4, line 22, at end insert—
“( ) ana...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones, and Lady Kramer, who have added thei...
My Lords, I support Amendment 77 in my name and those of the noble Baronesses, Lady Hayman and La...
My Lords, this is an important amendment. On matters of the environment, there has been a lot of ...
My Lords, I apologise for being a late newcomer to Trade Bill proceedings, but other Bills and co...
My Lords, I shall intervene briefly in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and speak to A...
My Lords, in speaking to the amendments I declare my interest as chair of the advisory committee ...
My Lords, I, too, am extremely sympathetic to these amendments and I congratulate the noble Baron...
My Lords, I have already spoken during the course of this Bill of the Government’s commitment to ...
My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who contributed to this short debate. Of course, I am disappo...
My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 78. I remind noble Lords that anyone ...
Moved by
Baroness Kramer
78: Clause 6, page 4, line 25, leave out from “TRA” to end o...
My Lords, under the Bill, the UK’s current Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate, part of the...
My Lords, at this late hour, I draw noble Lords’ attention to the debate on the predecessor Bill ...
My Lords, I will speak in favour of Amendments 78, 79, 104 and 114, in the name of my noble frien...
The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Bassam of Brig...
My Lords, this is an important and valuable group of amendments and I congratulate my colleagues ...
My Lords, I recognise that the amendments tabled by noble Lords are intended to reinforce the ind...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for making it clear that the Secretary of State—
I apologise. I think the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, would like to speak after the Minister. I got ...
I am grateful. Just for the avoidance of doubt, will my noble friend the Minister agree that it i...
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for that question. I have some skin in this game, because I...
When the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, drew up that framework for public appointments, there was no...