Professional Qualifications Bill [HL]

My Lords, it is nice to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes. Clearly, she and I were doing the...

My Lords, I have been a Member of a Parliament—either the Scottish Parliament or this Parliament—...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 45 in the name of my noble friend Lady Noakes, which makes pr...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 45 and 46, but I support all of the amendments in t...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Patel. I too wish to support all the am...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of a profession, as listed in the register of interes...

I support my noble friend Lady Noakes in her two amendments and the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, ...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. Before talking about the amendments specifically, ...

Ha!

This is not funny, because the Government are trying to micromanage the skills of this country, a...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for the comments in this debate,

My Lords, I have received two requests to speak after the Minister, from the noble Lord, Lord Pur...

My Lords, on the Australian point, I think the Statement on the Australian agreement will be repe...

I thank the noble Lord for that. Surely this is why we are going to have the assistance centre an...

I think I am in even greater despair now than I was before the Minister responded. Is this a “bet...

We definitely had one of those.

I am assured that we had one of those, so I cannot even blame this Government. But we do have a B...

I thank the noble Baroness for her comments. Of course, it goes without saying that I always list...

Well, my Lords, that rather took my breath away—and doubtless the breath of everyone else involve...

We now come to the group consisting of the question whether Clause 9 should stand part of the Bil...

My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to pose some general questions on Clause 9. Taki...

My Lords, while I sought to amend Clause 9 in the last group of amendments to avoid unnecessary b...

The noble Baroness, Lady Blake of Leeds, has been forced to withdraw, owing to a connection probl...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions on Clause 9. In answer to my noble friend Lady McInto...

I have received requests to speak from the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, in her request for a round table with regu...

I thank the noble Lord for his question. Again, I repeat that I am very happy to hold round table...

My Lords, I am getting more confused; I am Confused of Wherever. When we set out on our journey o...

I thank the noble Lord. When I earlier impolitely snapped at the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and...

My Lords, the point from the noble Lord, Lord Fox, about the internal market Act remains valid. A...

I thank the noble Lord for that question. The way I see it is that the UKIM Act introduced a prin...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken at various stages of the debate. I want to...

We now come to the group consisting of the question that Clause 13 stand part of the Bill. Anyone...

My Lords, in introducing this debate, I would like to apologise to my noble friend. I do not thin...

My Lords, to add to what my friend, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, has said, I will co...

My Lords, I fully support my noble friend Lord Hunt and the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Patel...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, and his analysis of Clause 13....

My Lords, first, it was churlish of me not to thank my noble friend the Minister for his enthusia...

I am grateful for the speeches we have heard so far. I am a cosignatory to this amendment and I w...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Hunt referred to “unease” about the Bill. I would put it slightly ...

My Lords, I note that the noble Lords, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Lord Fox and Lord Patel, have st...

I have received one request, so far, to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Pur...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for indicating that we will have more information on Repo...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for that. I really believe that we have to wait until we see...

I have received one further request to speak after the Minister, from the noble Lord, Lord Lansle...

My Lords, I welcome what my noble friend had to say about returning to this issue on Report. When...

I thank my noble friend for that comment. As we know, these questions are difficult to answer in ...

My Lords, this has proven to be a very interesting debate, and it has moved us on a little. The n...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 56A. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

56A: Clause 14, page 11, line 2, leave out subse...

My Lords, I start by apologising to the House, as I wrongly said previously that nursing associat...

My Lords, I am pleased to have the opportunity to support the amendment in the name of the noble ...

My Lords, the issue on which I speak will be brief and parallels what I said earlier on Clause 13...

My Lords, in the face of such Welsh expertise, I rise apprehensively as an Englishwoman to add my...

My Lords, I really do not want to add to what has been said because it is slightly strange that t...

Hoffwn ddiolch i bawb a siaradodd yn y dadl byr ond bwysig hon. I thank all noble Lords who have ...

My Lords, I think I should start by saying “Diolch yn fawr iawn” to the Minister for her reply.