Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill

My Lords, when this Bill was considered by the various powers that be in the House, including the...

My Lords, I draw to the attention of the Committee that in the amendment we are about to discuss,...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Winston, and, indeed, our very ac...

On a point of information, the noble Baroness was a great deal luckier with the Clerks than I was...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. I do not know how that happened, but I think I might...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for raising the question of e...

My Lords, I rise more to inquire than to support particular amendments. I am grateful to the nobl...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee for not being present at Second Reading. I had a hospital ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Winston for introducing these amendments. This group explo...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but I want to make the point that when we talk about ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, for his very important point. We need to think about where we...

My Lords, I am very grateful for this interesting debate on this first section. I will start with...

The noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, raised the issue of international compatibility of terminology. ...

The amount of time we spent in the department working with real experts in this field to get the ...

I am very grateful to the Minister for his consideration of what I think are difficult areas in t...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, after “plant” inse...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 2 and speak to Amendment 31 in my name. At the outset, I decla...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 31 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of W...

My Lords, I support Amendment 31. First, for the purposes of this Committee, I declare my interes...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, gave a very good introduction to these tw...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee for not speaking at the Second Reading of this Bill; I was...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, for reminding me that I ...

Does the Minister see this extending to non-food crops?

As I said, I can see this finding a use in forestry and in some ornamental crops. I think the ear...

Then why not restrict the Bill to agriculture and horticulture? There are, of course, mechanical ...

With respect, I would not want to do that. In the same way that we are insisting that these measu...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. I accept, as several noble Lords have said, tha...

I will just answer that precise point. That is very much what ACRE does. It would not just be res...

I am grateful to the noble Lord and therefore wish to withdraw my amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, leave out “or ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 3, I shall also speak to the rather daunting-looking number of amen...

My Lords, I apologise for my late arrival. I set off from Scotland very early this morning, but, ...

Would the noble Lord be kind enough to answer one question? Does he not consider the possibility ...

With respect, I say that that could be screened out in the development process. There may be indi...

The noble Lord referred to the possibility of using gene editing to tackle enteric worms. Would h...

I acknowledge that work has been done on that, but it is not in widespread commercial use.

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 3, and I support the consequential amendments. The Go...

My Lords, I join my noble friend Lord Trees in welcoming the inclusion of animals in this Bill, b...

My Lords, Amendment 9 is in my name. I will be very brief about that, but I agree that we should ...

My Lords, I realise that these are mostly probing amendments and, as ever, we await the Minister’...

My Lords, at the risk of appearing to be part of a Cross-Bench cabal, I would like to support the...

My Lords, from these Benches we have heard the arguments made by those who argue for the exclusio...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group, but many of them are consequential, so I w...

My Lords, when I was in another place, there was a free vote on the smoking ban. I remember a pan...

I have been looking very carefully at the literature on gene editing for this debate, to remind m...

I am grateful to the noble Lord and will cover that point in a moment.

I was making a point...

On companion animals, I can understand that this is a difficult and quite controversial issue. Th...

I totally agree with the noble Lord: there are opportunities here. With the balanced approach tha...

I thank the Minister. He has talked about a step-by-step approach a few times. Why can that not b...

All I can do is assure noble Lords that nothing will happen before we are in the right position t...

I hope the Minister will forgive me—I have been a complete pest to him this afternoon and will pr...

That is precisely why we want to have the proper regulatory framework in place, and that requires...

I thank the Minister for his answer and thank everyone who contributed to what has been a very ri...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. Does she not agree with me that we have been ...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention and agree, although we know that animals kept in good...

I do not think that any conversation I have had has considered what our priorities would be. Our ...

I thank the Minister for his answer, but I note that the Bill allows that to happen. There is not...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

12: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end inser...

My Lords, I apologise that I seem to be dominating; I am sure we will get away from this. Amendme...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 74 in this group. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, f...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, and the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, have ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for tabling Amendment 12, and ...

I thank noble Lords for their amendments regarding intellectual property laws. I will first take ...

I do not know who drafted this response but it is a masterpiece of obscurantism, in my view. I do...

I apologise to the noble Lord if I am sending him to sleep, but this is a complex area. Patent la...

I wonder if we could “strictly” stop dancing just for a moment and come back to the question of t...

I have to be honest with the noble Lord and say that I will write to him on this. He makes a very...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his answer and everyone who has contributed to this short but ...

That last point would have been dealt with in the process for ACRE’s analysis of its worthiness a...

I thank the Minister for tackling those questions. I feel that it might be best for me to write t...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

16: After Clause 1, insert the fo...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 16 in my name and I have added my name to Amendments 76, 77 a...

My Lords, surely the whole point of this Bill is to speed up the process of bringing into being t...

My Lords, I have the greatest respect for the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington, but I think...

I never thought I would be a member of the Green Party, but I clearly am this evening. I must agr...

My Lords, in one of the earlier debates the Minister sought to categorise some of us as people wh...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for introducing her Amendment 16. As we have...

I appreciate that, as keen as I am to get this right and get something sensible on the statute bo...

I think the Minister tried to suggest that the legislation was uncontroversial. We were before di...

I accept the point the noble Baroness makes, and of course, there are others who fervently want m...

I would love to hear from the Minister say “finally” again in just a second. One of the issues I ...

I take the noble Lord’s points. We have to make it clear that we will not allow organisms to come...

My Lords, although I thank the Minister for his response, I am obviously somewhat disappointed by...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

19: Clause 3, page 3, line 35, at end insert—

My Lords, my Amendment 19 would require that a precision-bred organism has been developed to prov...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for introducing this amendment so el...

My Lords, I want to say how much I support this amendment, which has been introduced by the noble...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 19 and I very much support the arguments put forward ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 19, which noble Lords will see already has a full co...

Seeing as my name has been mentioned, perhaps I ought to speak. I thought we were still on the tw...

My Lords, when I practised law before I started practising law and grace together, I was of the v...

My Lords, I am grateful for Amendment 19, which raises the importance of ensuring that what we do...

I thank the Minister, but I have one question of clarification, just to check that I have underst...

Whether I can give the noble Lord an example or not, I do not know, but he is absolutely right. T...

That was a very complicated statement. I think the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, had a bit of difficult...

That is absolutely right. I would just say to the noble Lord that ACRE assessed the evidence put ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Winston for his amendment and for the discussion, but I do...