Professional Qualifications Bill [HL]

My Lords, this amendment, I should emphasise to the Minister, is offered very much in the spirit ...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes.

My Lords, the noble Lord is looking at an out-of-date list of speakers.

I call the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill.

My Lords, I am rising rather surprised. We have heard my noble friend Lord Fox elegantly put the ...

I now invite the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, to make her intervention.

My Lords, I asked the Government Whips’ Office to order the speakers as is normal in the Chamber ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of Amendment 1. Subject to the clear statement of the ...

My Lords, as we are at the start of the Committee stage, I declare my interest as a board member ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, raised her consistent point, for which I give her resp...

My Lords, I slightly have the feeling that the back of an envelope was used for the drafting of t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Fox, Lord Purvis of Tweed and Lord Palmer of Childs Hill,...

My Lords, I have requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lords, Lord Lansley and Lord...

My Lords, not having participated in this group, I am prompted by the remarks of the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, if I may, because it is a point of some detail, I will write to my noble friend and pla...

I say to the Minister respectfully: he did not assuage my fears, because he did not address them....

I did not believe that my comments on this group would assuage the noble Lord’s fears, but I am s...

My Lords, this has already been a more interesting debate than I had anticipated. The response of...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, after “or (3)” inser...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 2 and to speak to Amendments 3, 6 and 10 in this group.

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My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to be present at Second Reading, so I will not detain n...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the government amendments in this group. I want to speak in pa...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak to this group of amendments. My question for the Minister is wh...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for these amendments, as I have spoken at length about th...

My Lords, I refer to my interest as a member of the GMC board for the sake of this group of amend...

My Lords, I declare that I am registered with the General Medical Council and I am president of t...

My Lords, I will be brief. I support the Government’s amendments in this group and the amendment ...

My Lords, I join noble Lords in congratulating the Minister on moving quickly on this. I also con...

My Lords, as has been said, the changes made are welcome. However, we should reflect that there a...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have given their careful consideration to the amendments in...

I call the noble Lord, Lansley, and then I shall call the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, who has reques...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have kindly approved of the argument made in Amend...

I think I have in fact moved Amendment 10. I commended amendments to the House and begged to move...

May I explain to the Minister that we are debating Amendment 2, with which other amendments are g...

My Lords, I am grateful for that clarification. May I consider that point and come back to the Ho...

If I make a slightly longer intervention than I planned, it might allow the Minister to consult t...

My Lords, I apologise for the confusion. I am happy to have another look at Amendment 10 in the l...

Moved by

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 11, leave out “overseas...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 4. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, leave out “substant...

My Lords, I wondered if I had drawn the short straw for this set of amendments. It always feels s...

My Lords, I support these amendments. As my noble friend has excellently explained, we are probin...

My Lords, the requirement to speak Welsh in Wales is rather important.

I have some sympathy...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Garden of Frognal, for tabling Amendments 4, 5, 7, 8 a...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Fox, who has asked to speak after the Minister.

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I thank the Minister, who has used words to set out why the Government want to put “substantially...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for that point. Much as noble Lords know, I love giving my opin...

I thank everybody who has spoken on this debate, which turned out to be rather more interesting t...

Moved by

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, leave out “overseas...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 9. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

9: Clause 1, page 2, line 2, at end insert—

“(iii) tha...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, who is no longer in his place, explained th...

My Lords, I am very glad to speak to my Amendment 18 in this group.

In relation to Amendmen...

My Lords, the Explanatory Notes state about Clause 9 that

“a regulator in one part of the U...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for bringing forward these amendments. She is very modest and...

My Lords, I will dwell on Amendment 18 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. As he said, d...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lady Noakes and Lord Lansley for Amendments 9 and 18, which br...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Ken...

The Minister has not answered my question. She seems to have continued to say that a national aut...

I am sorry that I gave that impression, but I do not believe that I did give the impression that ...

I have had a request to speak from the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed.

Could the Minister repeat what she said at the Dispatch Box? She said that the regulators do not ...

Perhaps I can clarify what I said earlier. The Privy Council is the intermediary between independ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate for their contributions, an ...

Before inviting the Committee to consider the withdrawal of the amendment, I call the noble Lord,...

I am grateful. I just wanted to make a point after the Minister because I think she made a fundam...

The firm advice that I had from my officials was that it would.

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

13: Clause 1, page 2, line 8, at end insert—<...

I am delighted to move Amendment 13 and to speak to Amendments 24, 35 and 40. I thank the noble a...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Lansley—who, following the revelations from the noble Barones...

Just for clarification, if a Member wishes to speak after the Minister and is in the Chamber, the...

My Lords, I wish to speak specifically to Amendments 42, 49 and 57, which I have co-signed. They ...

My Lords, I shall speak to all the amendments in this group. I do not wish to say anything furthe...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, particularly Amendments 13, 41, 42 and 57, ...

My Lords, I put my name down to speak to this group of amendments—the first time I have participa...

My Lords, like others who have spoken, I strongly support these amendments. I am most grateful fo...

My Lords, the Minister assured the House earlier this afternoon that the autonomy of the regulato...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord. To start where he left off, it i...

My Lords, I am going to leave the question of an assistance centre to one side. I think I have an...

Yes.

I thought he might. I think he can probably expect us to support him in that.

Amendment 49,...

My Lords, these amendments have brought about a fulsome and entirely appropriate debate about res...

My Lords, I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Baroness, Lady Rand...

I thank the Minister for his response to several of the issues that I have raised. I welcome his ...

My Lords, I accept the point made by the noble Baroness about the assistance centre. In response ...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, I am interested in the revelation that the Min...

My Lords, I am the Minister responsible for the Bill and the policy; I am not just the Lords spok...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response to the points raised by my noble friend and mysel...

I thank the noble Lord for his question. As he spoke, I was reminded that I had not fully answere...

I have received a further request to speak from the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle,...

My Lords, I return to the question that I raised both at Second Reading and in my comments today....

I thank the noble Baroness for that point. Frankly, I can conceive of no circumstances in the are...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, and I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 14. Anyone wishing to press this, or anything e...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

14: Clause 1, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

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My Lords, I am very pleased to move Amendment 14, which would require the Secretary of State, the...

My Lords, I apologise that what I am going to say has nothing to do with devolved Administrations...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Palmer, who has tabled a very useful am...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor C...

My Lords, I will speak mainly to Amendment 53 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Fox. I had hope...

My Lords, I put my name down in this group in order to speak to Amendments 19 and 29, but I shall...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in this debate, especially after the noble Baroness, La...

I am delighted to support many of the amendments in this group. Those in the name of the noble Lo...

My Lords, this group is perhaps the inevitable consequence of trying to reduce a highly complex s...

I start by saying that I may have misheard what the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, said. I think ...

My Lords, before I address the important amendments in this group, may I clarify something in rel...

My Lords, it appears that the noble Lord, Lord Fox, wishes to speak after the Minister.

Thank you. I did send an email—it is probably lurking in the system. Coming back to the Minister’...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for that question. I do not think that I can really a...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Fox, said, in one of his better interventions earlier, this is ...

My Lords, we come to the group beginning with Amendment 15. Anyone wishing to press this or anyth...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

15: Clause 1, page 2, line 23, at end insert...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 15 I will speak to Amendment 27, both of which are in my name and t...

My Lords, I will be brief. The requirement in these amendments for regulations to be published in...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 27, which is principally in the name of the noble Bar...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord. I put my name to these amendment...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak in the right place in the right order on these two amendments a...

The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Patel.

My Lords, I agree with the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and my noble and learned ...

My Lords, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this group of amendments, and to ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town, for her amendments and I note ...

My Lords, there is a problem in what the Minister said. He talked about consultation and a call f...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 16. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

16: Clause 1, page 2, line 28, at end insert—...

My Lords, before I speak to Amendment 16, I commend and endorse Amendments 23 and 47 in the name ...

My Lords, Amendment 23 in my name deletes Clause 3(2)(c), which provides regulations under this c...

I am very grateful for that invitation but before I get to the amendment tabled by the noble Lord...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to this short debate on these amendment...

My Lords, I am glad of the opportunity to contribute to this short debate, but I will be brief an...

My Lords, we are indebted to the noble and learned Lord for bringing Amendment 47 to us and to th...

The noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, has withdrawn from this group of amendments, so I call the Minis...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Ho...

My Lords, I am grateful to all who have spoken in this little debate. I hate to disappoint my nob...

My Lords, I am using the stand part debate on Clause 1 to raise my general concern about the exte...

My Lords, on the face of it, Clause 1 does seem innocuous, but at its heart there is a power for ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, has withdrawn from this group, so I call the no...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for putting this amendment forward, and I commend hi...

My Lords, Clause 1 enables regulations to be made—as we have heard, they are never overturned—to ...

My Lords, I have previously set out the need for a framework for the recognition of overseas prof...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate and I am grateful to the Minister. At heart, he is ...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 17. Anyone who wishes to press this o...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

17: Clause 2, page 2, leave out line 34 and ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 17, I shall speak to the other amendments in the group. They make u...

My Lords, this is a very interesting group of amendments because, as far as I can see, it is abou...

My Lords, the Minister emphasised that the UK wanted to retain mutual recognition of EEA qualific...

My Lords, I have Amendment 28 in this group, to which the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, has added ...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes—I so agree with her. At the moment,...

My Lords, I shall speak chiefly to Amendments 20 and 21 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady H...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, again, and to ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Garden of Frognal, whose name is next on the list, has withdrawn from th...

My Lords, I will try to be very brief; I know that the hour is getting late. I will speak only to...

My Lords, I first endorse the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, whose comments in this ...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baronesses, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town and Lady Finlay o...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

I will be very brief. In his response, the Minister said that the calculation for shortages would...

I thank the noble Lord for that point. I think that I can answer the first point immediately beca...

I thank the Minister for that. On letters, I know that he is backed by many civil servants and co...