Procurement Bill [HL]

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In answer to an interesting question in the Chamber yesterday, I implied that my noble friend Lad...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 11A, which is an amendment to government Amendment 11. Amend...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 11 only. It carries over into our new domestic legislation...

My Lords, I want to address the change in relation to Scottish law. Before doing that, I will pic...

My Lords, at the beginning of the Committee the Minister had a teaser with his announcement. It i...

My Lords, I shall add some questions to those posed so far on this group. Before I do, I thank th...

The noble Lord has generously acknowledged, as others have, that the officials have been extremel...

My Lords, I hope the Minister will reflect on his comments. At no stage did I criticise officials...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord True, those who have been working with him and...

My Lords, I was not going to intervene in this debate, and my questions are effectively procedura...

I would like my noble friend to respond to a point that was raised by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have spoken. Of course, this is Committee in your Lordships’...

I am grateful to the Minister for that and for answering at this stage a question that I have not...

I am sorry, I thought that I heard the noble Lord referring to the Australia trade agreement. It ...

I understand that Parcelforce is a trading name of Royal Mail, but is it a commercial or a public...

My Lords, I have given the answer that I have been advised to give at this stage. In answer to th...

I am sorry to do this, but may I pick up on the point the Minister was making to the noble Lord, ...

Yes, indeed. I totally take that point. It is good practice, and I hope it will be our practice i...

Moved by

Lord True

11: Schedule 2, page 76, line 11, leave out sub-paragraphs (1) and...

Moved by

Lord True

12: Schedule 2, page 76, line 33, leave out “(2)(d)” and insert “(...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

18: Schedule 2, page 79, line 12, leave out paragra...

My Lords, the previous discussion has demonstrated the active concerns a lot of members of this C...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 18 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire. ...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire. I put my name to Amendment 18, and ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe and after listening ...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, but I ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, for tabling these amendments in the f...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken. I take seriously the gravity of the remarks made. I ...

Of course, it is possible that the Administration in Scotland will change. This Bill will become ...

My Lords, I hear what the noble and learned Lord says. Those remarks might also be addressed to t...

Further to the point from the noble and learned Lord, I am less convinced at the response that th...

I hear what the noble Lord says. I come to this House and I am asked to respect the position of t...

We are making law so, for the record of the Committee, is the Minister saying that public passeng...

My Lords, the noble Lord is right to raise the issue of cross-border services. We will come to th...

I appreciate the comment the Minister has just made. This is a straight question: under what circ...

I believe that there may be potential, for example, for an evolution in the nature of the regime....

I want to express a concern. Although the Minister’s argument seems to be that the powers are alr...

My Lords, it is Committee and my noble friend and all other noble Lords are entitled to intervene...

I take the noble Lord back to his response on Amendment 18 in relation to public passenger transp...

My Lords, I will have to take counsel and advice on that, and I will certainly come back. As I sa...

I thank the noble Lord for his explanations; if some of them had been available earlier, it might...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

20: Schedule 2, page 81, line 6, leave out sub-par...

My Lords, I start by clarifying what utilities are covered in the Bill. Utilities are defined in ...

I am grateful for the Minister’s explanations. Her colleague the noble Lord, Lord True, previewed...

My Lords, I want to raise one narrow aspect; that of Dŵr Cymru, Welsh Water. The position of Wels...

My Lords, very briefly, I thank the Minister for her clear statement. The subject of utilities ha...

To go back to Amendment 20, the noble Baroness gave some useful explanation of the definition of ...

My Lords, I must say, I find the utilities section of this quite confusing in some areas. The mor...

I thank noble Lords. We have listened—I thought that we explained the Australian postal services ...

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

22: Schedule 3, page 83, line 38, leave out from “contracts”...

My Lords, Amendment 22 is in a group of rather different amendments, most of which have more meat...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 81, which we on these Benches regard as particularly impor...

My Lords, as this is my first intervention, I remind the Committee of my presidency of the Health...

My Lords, before I speak to my Amendments 84 and 88, I will just say that, while I do not think i...

My Lords, I understand that the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton—who is contributing remotely to the ...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a vice-president of the LGA and as a disabled person. I am sp...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 82, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings...

My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chair of Peers for the Planet and will speak to Amendments ...

My Lords, in supporting Amendments 85 and 87, I declare my interests as someone with small and me...

My Lords, I am happy to support Amendments 85 and 87 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Wort...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. This group of amendments brings together t...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. I echo all the comments ...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, but particularly those tabled by my noble f...

My Lords, I hope the Minister is impressed by the cross-party consensus on a number of things on ...

My Lords, here we go. This is an important part of the Bill dealing with process, and some things...

It was 14 million.

Some 14 million people were potentially impacted according to the briefing that we had on the lim...

It is Wednesday.

Is it, my Lords? I am that excited and I have been speaking that long—is it still Wednesday?

My Lords, if that is an offer to come back tomorrow and carry on, I do not know how popular that ...

Flexibility, I think I understand, means a skeleton Bill. I think we all understand that. It will...

My Lords, I think the noble Lord makes a slightly different point. It is a point of concern, and ...

Just to clarify, Amendment 85 would not make a mandatory requirement; it simply places it under t...

I take the noble Baroness’s point and understand what she is saying. This takes me back to the op...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for considering my amendment. Does he accept part of my premise, ...

My Lords, I could not possibly be tempted, particularly at 8.04 pm when the Committee needs to fi...

My Lords, the only amendment that is going to be withdrawn is my rather small amendment in this g...

Moved by

Lord True

24: Clause 5, page 3, line 41, after “works” insert “wholly or”