Procurement Bill [HL]

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely. I invite the noble Baroness ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 30 but just want to say that I agree with Amendment 33, in wh...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 33 and 34, but I start by thanking my noble friend Lady Brin...

My Lords, I rise to make my first contribution in this Committee, so I declare my position as vic...

My Lords, good afternoon. When the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, leads a group of amendments, I of...

My Lords, I will start with a question from the noble Lord, Lord Coaker. I will probably not answ...

My Lords, could we ask for some clarification on this, perhaps in a letter? Probation services ar...

I understand. We will make sure to get that guidance well before Report.

Amendments 33, 34 ...

I am somewhat baffled by subsection (4) of the light-touch contracts clause. The noble Baroness h...

My Lords, it is up to the organisation that is procuring. That is exactly what we are saying; we ...

My Lords, I am not sure that we have advanced very much on either of the clauses. I thank all nob...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

32: Clause 8, page 6, line 35, after second “the” ...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

37: Clause 10, page 8, line 5, leave out “this Act” and insert “...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 37 I will speak also to Amendment 460 in my name, which is closely ...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 43 and 51 in this group and comment on the other amendme...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 44, 56 and 57. I too have gone back to the Green Paper and t...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 46, which comes from a slightly different angle. In our repor...

My Lords, I am speaking to my Amendments 128 and 130, although the issues raised there have alrea...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, who I think is seeki...

My Lords, I return to Amendment 37 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Moylan. He made the point ...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craigh...

My Lords, I have listened with great interest to this debate and seen the tension between those w...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken. Lest anybody be alarmed by the coughing I have infli...

Would the Minister give way? That is one definition of local growth: that it has to be a local co...

My Lords, I will look carefully at what I have said and what the noble Lord has said. I think I s...

My Lords, although I am not a great expert on this subject, it seems that this is a case in which...

My Lords, obviously I accept that, but we will certainly undertake to provide further information...

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has a difficulty with his throat, and I commiserate with h...

On the business of frequent challenge, I think it would be quite useful to have some information ...

I heartily second that call for information.

To conclude, my noble friend the Minister said...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

38: Clause 10, page 8, line 5, at end insert “, unles...

My Lords, Amendment 38, on helping small business, would free up procurement for those businesses...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely. I invite the noble Baroness ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, in championing small...

Lady Brinton, we believe that you are speaking to the wrong group at the moment. Is that correct?...

It is the right group, but I have not introduced the amendment. The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton,...

The rules are—I can see the problem—that remote speakers speak before the other amendments. Lady ...

I am used to speaking in this way, if the Committee will bear with me. These are the rules, and I...

I think the rules are to help those chairing proceedings—that is, Deputy Speakers—but also to hel...

I apologise again to the Committee. I was just quoting the element of Amendment 534 that talks ab...

My Lords, I find myself being drawn into this Bill in all kinds of ways. I apologise for not spea...

I am sorry to interrupt, but I am struggling a little as to which amendment the noble Baroness is...

I beg your pardon. I was trying to give the basis as to why this amendment is down and then the o...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 38, 50, 97 and 100 in the name of my noble friend La...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. I support Amendment 38 moved by the noble ...

My Lords, many of my amendments and those to which I have added my name relate to the issue of pr...

My Lords, I rise not solely to demonstrate that there is broad ideological support for small and ...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating as well as nearly unanimous debate about the importance of ...

My Lords, this has been another interesting debate, with that clash of views the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I thank your Lordships for a really interesting debate. A lot of what has been said abo...

Does the Minister accept the feeling around the Committee that, while we accept that things are m...

I agree with a lot of that and I think it is something that we will discuss further. I thank the ...

My Lords, I start by thanking everyone in this Room for taking part and for the widespread suppor...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

45: After Clause 10, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, all the amendments in this group—which, the Minister will note, come from all the vario...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 47A in my name and Amendment 52. Basically, we believe that ...

My Lords, I have Amendment 48, but I very much endorse my noble friend Lady Thornton’s remarks on...

That is what the noble Lord said.

No, the noble Lord, Lord True, was interpreting what my noble friend said.

I always like to use two words when either reduces to one.

I could get into trouble quoting the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, to himself on constituti...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 49 and 58 in this group referring to Clause 11 on procure...

My Lords, this group includes my noble friend Lord Lansley’s Amendment 53. Like some of the other...

My Lords, I have added my name to the two amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Worthingt...

My Lords, I rise in a very pleasing position for a Green: in a group of amendments addressing cli...