Procurement Bill [HL]

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Lord True

89: Clause 15, page 11, line 30, leave out from “must” to end of l...

My Lords, this group seeks to deal with amendments relating to the process for excluding supplier...

In keeping with the obvious mood of the Committee, I actually do not want to say very much either...

My Lords, I think that in a test match that is called putting the spinner on early when the batsm...

That is quite helpful. Further to that and to make sure I have understood, would an excluded or e...

We will come on to the details of debarment on a later group—on Clause 61, I believe. A supplier ...

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Lord True

90: Clause 16, page 11, line 33, leave out subsection (1) and inse...

My Lords, here I pay the penalty for the discussion we had before the Committee started: there ar...

My Lords, I have Amendment 445 in this group. This amendment is concerned with the challenge faci...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 445, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and I shall make...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 445, which I was also pleased to sign. The noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 449A tabled in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Clem...

My Lords, I support Amendment 449 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, and Am...

I speak on behalf of my noble friend Lady Worthington, who cannot be here, to support our Amendme...

My Lords, I start by thanking the Minister for introducing all the government amendments in this ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to a number of amendments in this group on behalf of my noble friend Lo...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord for interrupting him. I am afraid that there is a Divisio...

My Lords, I am tempted to say to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, that he need not sit down si...

Thank you. My Lords, if noble Lords thought that my previous speech took a long time, they will n...

My Lords, I apologise for not rising sooner; I never know how many spokesmen are going to rise fr...

I am grateful to the Minister. Without pre-empting our debate later in the Committee’s proceeding...

Perish the thought that I might comment on the shelf life of HS2, but I do take what the noble Lo...

My Lords, before the noble Lord continues, I hope he will go back to the original statement to re...

My Lords, I have given further information. The noble Lord referred to a whole range of factors w...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting, but can the Minister therefore explain why these time lim...

My Lords, if the Cabinet Office is sinning, I will take the matter away and look into it. I heard...

Can I just say—because sometimes these things pass by and they should be noted—that we are very p...

Right. Unfortunately, the noble Lord will be disappointed by my response to the second part of th...

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Lord True

91: Clause 16, page 11, line 36, after “conduct” insert “, or has ...

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Lord True

93: Clause 18, page 12, line 17, after “considers” insert—

“...

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

96: Clause 18, page 12, line 22, leave out “must” and insert...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 107 in this group. The large part of this group is gove...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 105 in the names of my noble friends Lord Wallace of Salta...

That is not quite true.

Well, the healthiest on the Procurement Bill and constitutional affairs Front-Bench team. I thank...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for introducing her two amendments. As ever du...

My Lords, I seek to deal with amendments related to competitive procedures. I will start with the...

I apologise for interrupting, but I just want to ask a question in relation to Clause 32. It is a...

It is certainly not the Government’s intention to exclude those groups of providers. In fact, we ...

I want to come back to the Minister’s explanation about the word “appropriate” and it being wide....

It is obvious that the noble Lord, and probably all noble Lords, need more clarity about this. I ...

My Lords, I do not think my noble friend the Minister can move her amendments yet; she will move ...

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Lord True

98: Clause 18, page 12, line 29, leave out “must” and insert “may”...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

101: Clause 18, page 12, line 31, at end insert—

“(3A) In ...

My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, to her place and I thank her for carrying on...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, has made a telling and persuasive case. I hope it will con...

My Lords, I support Amendment 485. I will also speak to Amendment 101, which was not signed by no...

I am endeavouring, my Lords, not to tip my water down the back of my noble friend’s neck, althoug...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. On the question of the National Audit Offic...

What I think is important is that we accord the National Audit Office the absolutely critical cha...

My Lords, the Minister has spoken about the legislation giving the MoD greater flexibility, but f...

As the noble Baroness will be aware, the National Audit Office reports not to the MoD; it reports...

Will the Minister address the point about the treatment of contracted staff for the MoD’s ancilla...

My understanding is that the Government’s response has been framed to that report and is currentl...

The Government cannot answer the point about whether the Procurement Bill will allow the MoD to l...

Well, yes, within the law the MoD can, and this Bill provides more flexibility for past performan...

It would be really helpful if the Minister, as she suggested, wrote to me and copied it to noble ...

What I said to the noble Lord was that, as happens with any committee report, the department is p...

My Lords, when the noble Baroness is writing to the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, could she undertake ...

There is a part of the Bill that allows the Secretary of State to exclude a supplier; that is a s...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that informative reply, and I look forward to the letter...

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Lord True

102: Clause 18, page 12, line 34, at end insert—

“(4A) In th...

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Lord True

106: Clause 19, page 13, line 14, at end insert “(a “competitive f...

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Lord True

108: Clause 19, page 13, line 18, leave out “tendering procedure o...

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Lord True

115: Clause 20, page 14, line 8, leave out “procedure other than a...

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Lord True

117: Clause 20, page 14, line 21, at end insert—

“(5) A tend...

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Lord True

122: Clause 22, page 15, line 15, after “competitive” insert “tend...

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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

124A: Clause 22, page 15, line 18, at end in...

My Lords, although I am not moving Amendment 124A, I just thank the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, for ...

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Lord True

126: Clause 22, page 15, line 26, at beginning insert “if there is...

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Lord True

132: Clause 23, page 16, line 14, leave out “tendering procedure o...

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Lord True

134: Clause 24, page 16, line 29, at end insert—

“(A1) This ...

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Lord True

142: Clause 24, page 17, line 5, leave out “terms of a procurement...

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Lord True

146: Clause 25, page 17, line 19, after “competitive” insert “tend...

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Lord True

148: Clause 26, page 17, line 24, leave out from “assessing” to en...

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Lord True

150: Clause 26, page 17, line 32, leave out first “supplier” and i...

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Lord True

155: Clause 27, page 17, line 38, leave out “tendering procedure o...

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Lord True

162: Clause 28, page 18, line 13, at end insert—

“(A1) A con...

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Lord True

168: Clause 29, page 19, line 3, leave out “or exclude the supplie...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

174: Clause 30, page 19, line 16, at end insert—

“(d) ...

My Lords, I think the phrase in a situation like that is “follow that”; that was an impressive pe...

My Lords, I have added my name to both of the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Mend...

My Lords, I rise to introduce Amendment 353, tabled in my name and in the name of the noble Lords...

My Lords, I commend the speech from the noble Baroness. It was compelling and I hope the Minister...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 353, introduced by my noble friend Lady Stroud.

As many...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I am introducing Amendments 310, 318...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Boycott and to associate myself w...

My Lords, I have two small amendments in this group, Amendments 330 and 332. I must say that this...

I will speak to Amendment 353, to which I am a co-signatory, and in passing to Amendment 331. Per...

My Lords, I have listened to the debate and rise to address the Question that Schedules 6 and 7 b...

I just want to respond to my noble friend’s comments about Amendment 353 and underline a comment ...

The point is well made. I would be interested to know how long that Act has been in operation in ...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating discussion on a number of amendments that are grouped aroun...

My Lords, I will try to be reasonably brief in summing up some of the points made. I start by wel...

I thank the noble Lord for taking up the point about the extent of the schedules and the shared d...

That is a point well made. Indeed, the whole issue of the increase in the use of regulations by t...

My Lords, there is a wide gamut of public policy that enables a Government to achieve the objecti...

As it is still Committee, can I just ask a question about tax and competition offences? I am not ...

My noble friend makes an important point. There are elements in here which are looking back and t...

I am grateful to the Minister. I will not detain the Committee, except to say that I find it hard...

My Lords, the noble Lord made a strong case on this before. He has repeated it in a shorter versi...

I have listened very carefully to the description the noble Lord has given. Exactly the same kind...

My Lords, I referred to the position where there may be no relevant national laws. The Government...

On modern slavery, the Minister is surely saying that there has to have been a conviction for som...

No: I said that the current rules are too weak. They do require the supplier to have been convict...

My Lords, that was the very definition of a wide-ranging debate. I do not want to delay the Commi...

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Lord True

175: Clause 30, page 19, line 17, leave out from “must” to end of ...