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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 18 October 2006, in the House of Commons.

Companies Bill (HL)

Companies Bill (HL). Report stage second day.

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Parliamentary proceeding
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450 c881-984 
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2005-06
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Department of Trade and Industry
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Report stage
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New clauses
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Proceeding contributions
Jon Trickett | 450 c882-4 (Link to this contribution) New clause 1, which I tabled, has been signed by 51 other hon. Members. That significant body of opi...
Jon Trickett | 450 c882 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
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Speaker | 450 c882 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment (a) to the proposed new clause,...
Jim Cousins | 450 c889 (Link to this contribution) Much of what the hon. Lady says is welcome, but has she spotted that the business review that she su...
Justine Greening | 450 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) There was I thinking that we had seen the end of Punch and Judy politics for the sake of it. We are ...
Jon Trickett | 450 c888 (Link to this contribution) That is a debate for later—in the bar, probably. I simply say that it is clear that if the corporat...
Justine Greening | 450 c888 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to be at the Dispatch Box for the first time, although, I have to accept, aft...
Jon Trickett | 450 c885-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Asda is part of the Wal-Mart group which, it is alleged, employs teams base...
Jim Cousins | 450 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) In the course of his compelling speech, my hon. Friend has mentioned Tesco, which is a quoted compan...
Jon Trickett | 450 c886-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that important point. The dominant market position that certa...
Andrew George | 450 c886 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support any effort to ensure that supplier relationships are incorporated in the Bill. Ca...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) Yes, procedural. How I did it and when I did it are procedural issues, but I want to hear the hon. L...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Lady to her Front-Bench position and wish her well. The issues that she has raise...
Justine Greening | 450 c891-2 (Link to this contribution) We are in danger of making the business review far too prescriptive, particularly given that we know...
Lembit Opik | 450 c891 (Link to this contribution) I must declare an interest, because I work with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. The Bill does ...
Justine Greening | 450 c890 (Link to this contribution) Throughout the Bill, the Government have been clear about what the business review is intended to do...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, but the point made by the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Ty...
Justine Greening | 450 c889 (Link to this contribution) The business review clearly sets out the need for directors to have a narrative on social and commun...
James Brokenshire | 450 c966 (Link to this contribution) I think the point made in Committee was that the term ““political expenditure”” could be construed m...
Lord Deben | 450 c966 (Link to this contribution) Is not the problem with the Liberal Democrat proposal that it arises from a very narrow view of what...
James Brokenshire | 450 c967 (Link to this contribution) My point was about new clause 83(1), which includes the words"““other than a contribution to the uni...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) The advice that I am getting is what I thought myself—that there cannot be an indirect donation. Th...
James Brokenshire | 450 c966 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Lobbying does instruct, and can inform, the way in whic...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c967 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire) referred to the use of political funds by trade u...
Speaker | 450 c972 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 14—Computation of pe...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c972 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c968 (Link to this contribution) With that helpful advice, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I draw my remarks on this group of new clauses and ame...
Speaker | 450 c968 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Lady does not have to move the amendment. We will come to it in the course of ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c973-7 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister implied, we are considering something of a hotch-potch of new provisions to finish o...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) I was interested in the speech of the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) because it is fairly...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c978 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 355 raises a difficult point that we have considered in correspondence with the Law So...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c979 (Link to this contribution) I do not take that point, because any system would try to ensure that every shareholder has the righ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c979 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for taking the point, but how does she intend to deal with it?
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c980 (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister had any indication that these provisions will be used? Has anyone requested them?
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) As we have in the Bill, not as phrased in the amendment. Amendments Nos. 419, 420 and 421 would put...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c980 (Link to this contribution) If they are not used, the objection to them will never become reality, but they remain a tool that c...
Speaker | 450 c984 (Link to this contribution) Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly?
Elfyn Llwyd | 450 c943 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes that point again and I listen carefully to what he says. One of my concern...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c943 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be thought of only as an old hack speaking up for my old trade, as the same points ...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c945 (Link to this contribution) What I am saying is that, under clause 117, the court can enable—order, in fact—a company not to pro...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) May I make a suggestion to the Solicitor-General that might meet his concern—and also, perhaps, that...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c943-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we have had a very good and high-level debate. All the contribu...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c945 (Link to this contribution) Is the Solicitor-General therefore saying that under the existing provisions in the Bill, a court wo...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c946 (Link to this contribution) Let me consider for another time the idea put forward by the right hon. and leaned Gentleman. I do n...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Solicitor-General for clarifying that point; he has cleared up certain inconsistencies a...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c946 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says. However, subsection (4) states:"““If the cour...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c946 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain the point that I am trying to put to the Solicitor-General. There is a difference, an...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) We want to consult on and discuss them. We do not anticipate any substantial delay, but let us see w...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend could still write to a company requesting that information. It would then be a m...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) Given what my hon. and learned Friend has just said, could he make it clear to me, as a former frequ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend not recognise that the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford an...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c947 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham damned with faint praise the new cl...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c948 (Link to this contribution) In fact, the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) and I were in total agreement. Both ...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c948 (Link to this contribution) I note what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says. Amendment No. 383 would give every sharehold...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c948 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend share my puzzlement that, at this stage, on the Floor of the House—w...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c948 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I would not seek to defend the patent inadequacies of the Conservat...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c948 (Link to this contribution) May I help the Solicitor-General in his answer to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Paul Far...
Speaker | 450 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 359, in page 128, line 21,...
James Brokenshire | 450 c955 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 358, in page 128, line 21, at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsections (...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) We have had full debate on this group of amendments, and unfortunately time is now short. The Solici...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c948-50 (Link to this contribution) After much complaining by the Conservatives that there was inadequate time to deal with the Bill, we...
James Brokenshire | 450 c957 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse my hon. Friend’s comments. Our only point of difference with the Government rela...
James Brokenshire | 450 c957 (Link to this contribution) I will try to allow some time for the Solicitor-General to respond, but we are short of time, as he ...
Stephen O'Brien | 450 c957 (Link to this contribution) As a member of ICSA, as declared in the register, I welcome the Government’s about-turn and hope tha...
James Brokenshire | 450 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) Let me first declare my interest in the business under discussion. Although I am a non-practising so...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) The funding of political parties is a topical issue, with implications for all hon. Members and part...
Speaker | 450 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 82—Enforcement of d...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with almost all that the right hon. Gentleman says. I would not put contributions by individ...
Lord Deben | 450 c960 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister will agree with what I am about to say. Does she agree that, when we are t...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c958 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
David Howarth | 450 c966 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty is that the current definition of political expenditure is aimed solely at elections....
Speaker | 450 c961 (Link to this contribution) That is entirely a matter for the right hon. Lady. She has moved the first new clause in the group, ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c961 (Link to this contribution) Right, I shall proceed in that way and leave my comments on the other proposals for when other hon. ...
David Howarth | 450 c961-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak mainly to new clause 76 on corporate expenditure on lobbying. We do not know the exact...
James Brokenshire | 450 c964-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish to look at the treatment of trade unions in the Bill. At the end of our debate in Committee, ...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to see that the Liberal faith in human virtue and the virtue of companies lives on. Lots o...
David Howarth | 450 c940 (Link to this contribution) If what the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Paul Farrelly) says is true, companies, by applyin...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c940 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point.
Paul Farrelly | 450 c940 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks of criminals and fraudsters. The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) says...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c941-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall confine myself to new clauses 16 and 17, and largely to new clause 16. I acknowledge that my...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c940 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who was of course in the investigative journalism trade—and a very ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) May I give my hon. Friend an example? I once investigated a publicly quoted company that was suspect...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) The principle the hon. Gentleman’s invokes is that we should not publish any information about anyth...
Elfyn Llwyd | 450 c938 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has expressed sincere concern about those affected in relation to Huntingdon, and...
David Howarth | 450 c937 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point. The question that I would ask in return is: if new clause 16 proposed ...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c937 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to follow the hon. Gentleman’s argument with care, but I am still not sure why he takes ...
David Howarth | 450 c937 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely correct. They are different concepts in terms of what has to be found, although e...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c937 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the difference is that, under clause 117, the test is that of proper purpose, whereas under ...
David Howarth | 450 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) These decisions would not be taken day in, day out. One of the important aspects of the proposal is ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c937 (Link to this contribution) The question does not really apply, because the new clause does not say that. These are the new clau...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c938 (Link to this contribution) We are making heavy weather of a straightforward issue, although it was fascinating and quite a spec...
David Howarth | 450 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) That is true. One cannot declare whole classes of people to be vexatious, only specific individuals....
David Howarth | 450 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman’s second point, there is no right of appeal but there is always a right of jud...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c936 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman direct me to where the new clause would safeguard openness and transparency ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c935 (Link to this contribution) Many shareholders could buy one share each or many people could ask for access to the register, all ...
David Howarth | 450 c935 (Link to this contribution) As I understand the system, the Attorney-General would have to declare people to be vexatious litiga...
Elfyn Llwyd | 450 c935 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is an expert in law and I am sure that that applies to company ...
David Howarth | 450 c935 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his comment. That is a significant problem with the...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c935 (Link to this contribution) The problem with clause 117 is that the court must know what are the motives of the person seeking t...
David Howarth | 450 c934 (Link to this contribution) I was going to come that later, but we may as well deal with it now. The hon. Gentleman refuted his ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c934 (Link to this contribution) One of the main points that I was trying to make is that the clauses put the matter in the hands of ...
David Howarth | 450 c934 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) has described the circumstances which have given rise ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c934 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman, who listened carefully to the debate in Committee b...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c934 (Link to this contribution) The application will be made to the court, so the issue would predominantly be dealt with by court p...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c933 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman’s point, but the Secretary of State may not be in a position to foresee al...
Elfyn Llwyd | 450 c933 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman pursues an interesting line of thought, but does he appreciate that if the Secret...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c932 (Link to this contribution) I am illustrating the general point that companies operating in dangerous environments may make use ...
David Howarth | 450 c933 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman made a number of important comments in Committee, which have influenced thinking ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c933 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that point when I conclude my remarks, but the hon. Gentleman is perhaps conferring a...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c932 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly fair point, but if there was a reviewing mechanism whereby the ...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly against new clauses 16 and 17 and amendment No. 383. We spent six or seven wee...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c932 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a point in relation to dodgy directors operating through offshore companies...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c932 (Link to this contribution) I accept the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s point. My point is that the clause is drawn widely, ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c928-31 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman pre-empts me because I have some way to go before I get on to amendment No. 383. ...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) The next group will have to be voted on at 3 pm as well, and the principle is exactly the same—the p...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c913 (Link to this contribution) It has been an extremely good debate, and I particularly commend the speeches of my hon. Friend the ...
David Howarth | 450 c912 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) is making ...
Speaker | 450 c912 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Member will bear that in mind as the debate continues. Let us get on with it.
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 450 c911 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but we are running out of time. This cost has the huge benefit of creating a level play...
Austin Mitchell | 450 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly in support of new clauses 1 and 2, but I also want to speak to some other amen...
Jon Trickett | 450 c915 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the Minister’s comments, and particularly in the light of the supply chain amendment...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry but I will not give way, because time is very short. I will deal briefly with new clause...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c926 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on her succinct and expert in...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c926 (Link to this contribution) We have been round the houses on this in our six or seven weeks in Committee. I understand that the ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has given me the opportunity to put on record the fact that, al...
Viscount Hailsham | 450 c927 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy with the point that my hon. Friend is making, but I have a reservati...
Crispin Blunt | 450 c919 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Opposition wish to oppose Government amendment No. 82...
Speaker | 450 c919 (Link to this contribution) I must inform the hon. Gentleman that the Opposition will have to vote against all the Government am...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c924 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 450 c924-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 17—Names and addresses of memb...
Paul Farrelly | 450 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) I was going to raise exactly the same point that the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 450 c927 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend makes his important point well, although it is related not to new c...
Michael Meacher | 450 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on her opening speech from the Conservative ...
David Howarth | 450 c900 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Oldham, West and Royton (Mr. Meacher), wh...
Justine Greening | 450 c900 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly perplexed by the hon. Gentleman’s comments about being the real Opposition. Will he op...
Elliot Morley | 450 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly drew our attention to the excellent points that the Corporate Leaders G...
Michael Meacher | 450 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Minister will respond to my hon. Friend’s request. The membe...
Shailesh Vara | 450 c901 (Link to this contribution) Is that the hon. Gentleman’s Opposition or the other Opposition?
David Howarth | 450 c901 (Link to this contribution) As I remember it, at that stage the official Opposition opposed even the business review, although t...
Shailesh Vara | 450 c900-1 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Gentleman’s claim that he speaks for the real Opposition, perhaps he would ...
David Howarth | 450 c900 (Link to this contribution) Of course not, because the Government are giving way on a point that we are urging them to give way ...
David Howarth | 450 c901 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s question, asked from a sedentary position, shows that it is a big issue in the ...
Justine Greening | 450 c901 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about creating an ethical market. Does he agree that there is already one e...
David Howarth | 450 c901-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I was coming to the size of the market. Ethical investment has probably got much further than e...
Colin Burgon | 450 c903-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to new clause 2, which completes the circle and complements new clause 1, which was ...
Adam Price | 450 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow my hon. Friend—for the purposes of this debate—the Member for Elmet (Col...
Michael Fabricant | 450 c907 (Link to this contribution) I have been following the hon. Gentleman’s points with considerable interest, and I also regard him ...
Adam Price | 450 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) And all the angels in heaven rejoice when one sinner repenteth. The fact is that that Bill demonstra...
Justine Greening | 450 c908 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Alun Michael | 450 c908 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) on the sensible and coherent w...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 450 c909-11 (Link to this contribution) I had the privilege of sitting through the entire Committee stage, and, as a non-legal person, I now...
Alun Michael | 450 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) Many of my hon. Friends wish to speak, so I shall keep my remarks very brief. The speech of my hon....
Justine Greening | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) It is not my suggestion, although I happen to agree with it; it is the right hon. Lady’s suggestion....
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady seriously suggesting that the amendments, which were subject to wide consultation w...
Justine Greening | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) I am interested to hear the Minister’s comments. I shall discuss the substance of the amendments, bu...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c893 (Link to this contribution) I am fascinated by the hon. Lady’s speech, although she has still not answered my question. However,...
Justine Greening | 450 c893 (Link to this contribution) ““None”” was obviously a response to my question about the assessment of the impact of the amendment...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) How will the amendments damage competitiveness?
Justine Greening | 450 c892-3 (Link to this contribution) I had hoped that Ministers would have addressed that question themselves before tabling amendments. ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady needs to substantiate that claim. I cannot understand how the amendments, which will g...
Justine Greening | 450 c892 (Link to this contribution) On Second Reading, the Minister said:"““If we went further, we would damage our success in attractin...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c893 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I will not interrupt the hon. Lady again unless she provokes me, b...
Justine Greening | 450 c893 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have the chance to respond later in the debate.
Justine Greening | 450 c893-4 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously difficult being in this position, as I have asked lots of questions about the amendm...
Speaker | 450 c893 (Link to this contribution) That is a rebuttal for a later stage. Misrepresentation is a very strong term. The Minister could al...
David Howarth | 450 c896 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Lady cannot have it both ways. She cannot on the one hand say that reporting standar...
Justine Greening | 450 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) I am amazed. There is a touch of irony to a Liberal Democrat saying that I want to have it both ways...
David Howarth | 450 c894 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that new clause 2, which would restore the reporting standards part of the...
Justine Greening | 450 c895 (Link to this contribution) We cannot support new clause 2, because it would relegate the business review to a tick-box exercise...
Jim Cousins | 450 c895 (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Lady that every British company that is listed on the American stock exchanges mus...
Justine Greening | 450 c896 (Link to this contribution) If such a requirement does not help to achieve the Bill’s objective—I do not believe that it does—we...
Elfyn Llwyd | 450 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) Having listened carefully to all the arguments, I think that this has been a very interesting debate...
Andrew George | 450 c890 (Link to this contribution) I am following the logic of what the hon. Lady describes. Bearing it in mind that Conservatives appe...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 450 c973 (Link to this contribution) Despite the number of Government amendments and new clauses, I can assure you that I will be brief, ...
Adam Price | 450 c888 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a sad indictment of the official Opposition that the real opposition does not come from th...
Justine Greening | 450 c890 (Link to this contribution) We will come to that, but I was not aware that this was a Bill solely structured to deal with superm...
Mike O'Brien | 450 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire) to the Front Bench. However, in the ame...
Lord Deben | 450 c978 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be extremely damaging if that amendment were to get through? It would mean that even if...
Subjects
Access Disclosure of information Animal welfare Accountability Company law Community development Companies Directors Business Annual reports Liability Donors Expenditure Exemptions Harassment Ethics Journalism Personal records Membership Political parties Public companies Loans Staff Meetings Private companies Lobbying Registration Trade unions Voting rights Shareholders Huntingdon Life Sciences Business plans
Legislation
Companies Bill (HL) 2005-06
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