Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill

My Lords, I apologise. I rise to speak to Amendment 18 in my name, and I thank my noble friend Lo...

I beg your Lordships’ pardon—the moving of the Statement on the Metropolitan Police was not commu...

Many apologies. I also thank my noble friend Lady Stowell, who I was not expecting to see, but wh...

My Lords, a cup of tea lies gently cooling in the tea room, unpaid for as I sprinted to move my a...

I want to again apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, for causing him not to be here—and I wi...

I was giving way to an excellent intervention to save me from the poor quality of my speech.

I am sorry; I suddenly saw the look on your face and thought you were finished.

The whole Committee stage debate has already become surreal, and we are only about 20 minutes int...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I shall make just two points to him and the...

I take the comments from the chair of my own committee in good heart. Clearly, I am on a learning...

My Lords, I cannot follow the amusement factor of the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey. As this is my firs...

My Lords, I remind the noble Earl that Amendment 44 deals explicitly with the safety issues. He m...

My Lords, I will take advantage of the flexibility of debate outlined by the former Leader of the...

I can respond to that, since that question is being put to me. There is nothing procedurally to p...

I will take advantage of the flexibility in the Chamber to say that, notwithstanding the interven...

My Lords, following that very provocative statement from the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, I will not ...

My Lords, I was very pleased to put my name to the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady H...

My Lords, I think the whole House is grateful to its former Leader, my noble friend Lady Stowell,...

Now that I am in the swing of things, does my noble friend genuinely believe that outside the mai...

As I am explaining, we think that the views from other operators point out that my noble friend’s...

I rise, somewhat hesitantly, having consulted the oracle that is the former Leader of this House,...

Moved by

Lord Bassam of Brighton

19: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I speak on behalf of my noble friend Lady Merron, who has tabled this amendment. The pr...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak to the amendments in my name and that of the noble Earl, Lord D...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of the two proposals from the noble Baroness, Lady McIn...

My Lords, I want to mainly talk about Amendment 19 put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam. Be...

My Lords, this is an interesting debate on these proposals, which are potentially linked and will...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the short debate on this group, particularly...

My Lords, the Minister is making exactly the same case as the Commons Minister, Julia Lopez, made...

My Lords, I think that they should have notice, but the point is that the paragraph 17 conditions...

I think both the noble Earl, Lord Devon, and I asked whom, following court rulings in this regard...

If my noble friend will permit, I will come to the points she raises on consultation shortly.

My Lords, I am somewhat reluctant to let this go, I must confess. The emergency services in this ...

Moved by

The Earl of Lytton

20: Clause 61, page 46, leave out lines 6 and 7 and inser...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I will also speak to the other amendments in my name in this g...

Is the noble Lord aware of the American import of site aggregators—companies which, I think, fina...

I am indeed. I believe that one of the firms is based in San Diego, in California. One cannot hel...

I am so sorry to interrupt the noble Earl, who is clearly giving us a sense of this important and...

My Lords, I have a group of amendments here, all of them covering very technical bits and pieces ...

My Lords, on these Benches, we support the amendments introduced by the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, ...

Surely the noble Lord agrees that a mast on a community sports building, although it provides a g...

My Lords, I cannot believe that the noble Lord believes that it is reasonable to reduce the rent ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, on his Amendments 20 and 22 to 27. I am del...

My Lords, I apologise for not being able to take part at Second Reading and in the first day of C...

My Lords, I support the amendments from the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, and much appreciate his exte...

My Lords, having followed this debate quite closely, I thought I would make a brief intervention....

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, but Vodafone’s figures to March 2021 showed ...

We ought to remember that Vodafone is a global company and a great British success story. I congr...

In saying that mobile operators are very large and substantial companies, does the noble Lord acc...

I do not want to be sidetracked into a debate on the classification of wind or solar farms, but I...

My Lords, I shall not enter the zero-sum game debate we appear to be having. However, the really ...

My Lords, may I make one additional comment? Despite my noble friend Lord Vaizey thinking I am pe...

My Lords, the issue of valuation, as we have heard clearly today, generates one of the most signi...

My Lords, as we expected, we have had a lively and somewhat polarised debate on this group, which...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. Would he be able to produce any written evidence of these i...

My letter that was sent just before Committee outlined some of the engagement that the department...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that detailed reply. I will obviously not try to cover everyth...

My Lords, I will speak to the stand part notice in my name, on which I am delighted to have the s...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34. This may well be another par...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, once more, and the noble L...

My Lords, I support Amendments 28, 30, 31 and 34, to which I have added my name. I also express m...

Does the noble Earl not think it most unusual for commercial contracts to be interfered with in t...

There have been instances where contracts of all sorts have been interfered with by government—fo...

My Lords, I will briefly support the clause stand part amendment and the amendments in the name o...

My Lords, I shall be very brief. In general, I support the arguments of the noble Lord, Lord Clem...

My Lords, even more briefly, the Minister said in responding to the last group that the Governmen...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken to this group, which concerns both compensation and backd...

I ask the Minister to consider what happens if a contract under the 1954 Act contains a provision...

The noble Earl, Lord Lytton, raises some very specific and technical points, if I may say so. I a...

The Minister is saying that it is retrospective and therefore exactly the effects that I mentione...

I am about to get on to the various backdating aspects of this, so I hope that will answer some o...

My Lords, I am sorry to intervene again, but of course I will not be responding at the end of the...

As my noble friend the Minister has pointed out, lawyers do well whatever happens. I am coming on...

First, is it the case that the Bill will be changed on Report, or are we talking about a new piec...

I am afraid that the answer to both of those questions is that I do not know. It would be remiss ...

Sorry to labour the point, but the Minister just introduced the concept of transitional provision...

I read my brief very carefully, and I said “any transitional provisions in respect of the Bill”—I...

I am most grateful for the debate we have had, and I hope that my noble friend will look warmly o...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

35: Clause 68, page 58, line 38, leave out from “must” to...

My Lords, I should just say that it is not my role to make friends among my colleagues in the leg...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 36, 37, 38 and 39, and the proposal that Clauses 68 and 69 ...

My Lords, I have an amendment in this group but I will also briefly voice my support for the othe...

My Lords, briefly, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, th...

My Lords, while we were debating the previous group, the Government seemed to be getting ready to...

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister will remember from my remarks at Second Reading that my ma...

My Lords, the debate on this group raises a number of interesting points, but they are all on the...

My Lords, I shall first address points made by the noble Earl, Lord Devon, as well as my noble fr...

As I explained earlier, it is a probing amendment designed not to go into legislation but to get ...

The Building Safety Act received Royal Assent on 28 April, as the noble Lord knows. It will stren...

Without labouring the point tonight, the Minister can perhaps pander to my curiosity and come bac...

I am very happy to consult my colleagues at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communit...

Did I hear my noble friend correctly regarding the Country Land and Business Association? If so, ...

I am sorry to disagree with my noble friend, but the CLA’s response to the consultation opposed c...

My Lords, we clearly have some clearing up to do between Committee and Report on who said what an...

Tabled by

The Earl of Lytton

42A: After Clause 69, insert the following new Clause—