United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

My Lords, I am pleased to support Amendment 2; I was about to do my own version when I discovered...

My Lords, I support Amendments 1 and 2, to which I have lent my name; they are probing amendments...

My Lords, I want to add a few words in support of Amendment 2. Proportionality and subsidiarity a...

My Lords, I offer a few comments on these amendments. It seems to me that Amendment 1 has the eff...

My Lords, I support Amendment 1. There is very little that needs to be said in addition to what m...

My Lords, I agree with the first point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, who said that thi...

My Lords, in that extraordinary vote on Tuesday last, your Lordships’ House indicated what it fel...

My Lords, when the Conservative Party came up with its absolutely brilliant slogan about taking b...

My Lords, now that we are leaving the scope of the single market, the characteristics of the UK i...

My Lords, my concern in this group of amendments and, indeed, with the Bill as a whole is that a ...

My Lords, it is worth reminding ourselves that we are talking about the Committee stage of an int...

My Lords, if the Ministers shepherding this Bill expected an easy ride, this gives a taste of thi...

My Lords, let me open by thanking noble Lords for their contributions at Second Reading last week...

My Lords, I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Purvis ...

My Lords, while I am grateful that the Minister has confirmed to me that a piece of legislation t...

Well, as I have said before to the noble Lord, we remain completely committed to the framework pr...

I am slightly lost on that, but we will come back to it. I thank the Minister for his response an...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 3. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to ...

Moved by

Lord Hain

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 11, at end insert—

“( ) This Part ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 3 I wish also to speak to Amendments 157 and 177, standing in my na...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble and honourable friend Lord Hain, who is instructive...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments, moved so excellently and explained clearly by...

My Lords, I start by apologising to the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, for speaking over her earli...

My Lords, after that speech from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, I am tempted to say “Am...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Cormack, who has spoken so passionately...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and the noble Baroness, Lady M...

My Lords, it is a privilege to speak in this important debate. I say straightaway that we on thes...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Hain, the no...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his courtesy and all those who have spoken in support of these...

My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 4. I remind noble Lords that anyone wi...

Moved by

Lord Fox

4: Clause 1, leave out Clause 1 and insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, as I said in winding up at Second Reading, the eight hours of speeches broke the Bill d...

My Lords, I refer to my interests in the register as this is the first time I have had the honour...

My Lords, I fear I must disagree with the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. I support this amen...

My Lords, I regret that I was unable to take part at Second Reading, but that does not mean that ...

We seem to have a technical problem.

[Inaudible]—needed at all, certainly at this stage. The earlier parts of the Bill, which deal wit...

My Lords, I want to comment on some of the issues raised by the amendment. It is useful in that, ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop. That was a thoughtful contributio...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend. Amendment 4 was ably moved by my noble frie...

My Lords, I shall resist the temptation to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, in what he has sai...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, said, this debate is a sort of appetiser for the main c...

My Lords, Amendment 4, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Fox and Lord Purvis, would prevent the mar...

I have received three requests to speak after the Minister: from the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, the...

My Lords, the Minister cited the example of pesticides, a subject on which there will almost cert...

The Bill would legislate for subsidy control becoming a reserved matter. We are committed to cons...

I have two questions. First, I called for clarity, trying to explain its importance to organisati...

My noble friend is putting me in the very difficult position of choosing which noble Baroness is ...

My Lords, I take it as a little chink of victory that the Minister found it difficult to say whet...

The noble Lord asked a number of questions, and I am sure he will be quick to write to me if I do...

I am grateful to the Minister and may well be writing to him on that basis, as he predicted. Can ...

The purpose of the office for the internal market is to provide advice, reports and monitoring to...

My Lords, I apologise to the Deputy Chairman of Committees for having jumped in so soon. I thank ...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 5. I remind noble Lords that anyone w...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

5: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—