Procurement Bill [HL]

In order to finish, as I was just about say, we wish to facilitate proper discussion. Obviously, ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, leave out sub-paragraph...

My Lords, I am glad that we have been able to move on to this group of amendments, all of which w...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 2, and tabled Amendments 25 to 27. The noble Baroness rais...

My Lords, I hesitate to appear to disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Berkely, but I shall humilia...

I think electricity is later taken out, as I mentioned.

Oh well. I shall just work on the text I have; I mean, what is one meant to do? There is “Water” ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for expanding fully on these amendments but in the case of some o...

Since that is technically an interruption to my speech—

I am sorry.

No, I am delighted. It adds much illumination.

We can have more of you.

You could have more of me, my Lords, but I will simply say that I know nothing about ports. Howev...

My Lords, this is my first intervention on the Bill because on the day of Second Reading I was co...

My Lords, I am sure the Minister will pick up on the noble Earl’s Voltaire reference and tell us ...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. It has been interesting to listen to comments on t...

My Lords, it has been an interesting and important debate, which we will reflect on as we go forw...

Can the Minister clarify what an appropriate authority is? Who are the appropriate authorities an...

I was asked that at Second Reading. An appropriate authority is a Minister of the Crown or a Wels...

I think that my noble friend is approaching his peroration. May I ask him for a little clarity? T...

My noble friend has very characteristically not only picked up an onion but begun to peel it into...

I sense that the Minister is winding. I have a quick question, which I think is best responded to...

Yes, my Lords. I have committed to write in relation to that and I will pick up other questions t...

My Lords, this has been a workmanlike discussion, the unpeeling of the onion—the first of many un...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 21, at end insert—

“(3A) A univ...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity, by way of Amendment 3, to probe—I think it is litera...

My Lords, I have a number of probing amendments in this group and throughout the Bill. The majori...

I shall finish by offering a comment on another amendment in this group. Amendment 5, in the name...

I am delighted to follow my noble friend with a few brief remarks. I say at the outset that I reg...

My Lords, up to her final couple of sentences, I was going to recommend that the Minister listen ...

My Lords, I shall speak on this set of amendments, particularly Amendment 42. It is the first tim...

My Lords, I very much welcome the question of the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, about local authoriti...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 7. I do not think I need comment on any of the other amen...

My Lords, my name is on some of these amendments. My colleagues have spoken to several of them so...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 19 and comment very briefly, because it was a pleasure to...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Hayman after her remarks. I apologise t...

Again, my Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have spoken. There have been some interestin...

Can I just point out that the grouping comes from the Government Whips’ Office? We could have ext...

My Lords, they are negotiated in the usual channels. Sometimes it is a fatal thing in your Lordsh...

I am grateful. Just so that the Minister writes the correct letter to me, I am fully aware that s...

I was actually coming on to the rest of that but, with respect, the noble Lord asked me a specifi...

My Lords, I suggest looking at the definitions in Clause 112. I note that the terms “central gove...

I will certainly reflect on anything that is said in Committee. “Combined authority” has a partic...

It is a federal question that I am asking, about states that border combined authorities.

I am not sure that the First Minister is looking for a federation.

Where a procurement is b...

I was delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, was able to pursue some of things that I touche...

My Lords, we need the Bill because we need a national procurement structure. I hear what my noble...

My noble friend should not feel he has to apologise for responding to colleagues in Committee who...