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Debate on bill on Thursday, 26 October 2006, in the House of Lords.

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill. Lords Report stage. Concluded. Bill printed as amended (HL Bill 161). Part 2 of 2 records.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
685 c1343-94 
Session
2005-06
Department
Cabinet Office
Legislative stage
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Earl of Onslow | 685 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister went on about Parliament having a veto, but we all know what happens down the...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1348-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the second amendment on economic regulators tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Wil...
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Lord Goodhart | 685 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I listened to the arguments on this with great care and it is obviously a difficult issue....
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Parliament and Government can set policy on these things quite properly. There is always t...
Lord Berkeley | 685 c1350-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister is very good on the processes that he proposes and has talked a lot about whi...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 685 c1346-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would have been happy to add my name to this amendment, but I am afraid that I was too l...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 685 c1347-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I simply want to ask a question about this amendment and raise some issues. It seems inapp...
Lord Bradshaw | 685 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak about the railways. The situation that pertained at the time of the collapse...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 685 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady Harris. I do not support this ame...
Lord Berkeley | 685 c1345-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment because I believe, as the two previous speakers have...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1359-60 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 22: Page 4, line 30, leave out ““that is punishable, or”” and insert ““and may...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1359 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 21: Page 4, line 28, leave out subsection (2) and insert- ““(2) The Treasury m...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 685 c1358 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister reminded us that if either House uses the veto powers, that is the end of the...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 685 c1355-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 19: Leave out Clause 4. The noble Lord said: My Lords, Clause 4 has aroused s...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1356-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment would remove Clause 4. It may be intended to have the effect of preventing o...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1352-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is on the record in these debates. The amendment seeks to do a number of things in addi...
Baroness Wilcox | 685 c1353-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, most noble Lords who have spoken today have been in on the Bill from the beginning. I am s...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1351-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have more faith in the parliamentary process than the noble Earl clearly does. The provi...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 685 c1352 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I am still not following the argument. If th...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1344-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in supporting this amendment, I wish to reiterate two points that I made in Committee. It ...
Baroness Wilcox | 685 c1343-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 18: Before Clause 4, insert the following new clause- ““INDEPENDENCE OF THE EC...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1391-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the reference to the Church of England in the Bill was inserted in recognition of its part...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 685 c1392 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was well aware that if we got into the detail a hornets’ nest may well buzz around our h...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 685 c1391 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 39: Page 20, line 34, after ““Church of England”” insert ““or any other religi...
Baroness Wilcox | 685 c1394 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry about that because it would have been a neat and tidy amendment, but it is the ...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1394 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 41: Page 21, line 5, leave out subsection (2) and insert- ““(2) In section 31-...
Baroness Wilcox | 685 c1392-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 40: Page 20, line 40, leave out ““two”” and insert ““four”” The noble Barones...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1393-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to hear the noble Baroness at the Dispatch Box. We have not heard enough of h...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1386 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, for moving his amendment, and for commending the G...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1384-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 37: After Clause 29, insert the following new clause- ““BURDENS FROM IMPLEMENT...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1387-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of this amendment appears to be to introduce a legislative barrier to gold-pla...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1387 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely accept both those points. I did not mention the European Parliament because I s...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1390 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for those questions. I will try to answer them as best I can. The g...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1389-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am obliged to the Minister for his reply. For reasons beyond the control of both of us, ...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1391 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 38: Page 20, line 15, at end insert- ““(3) In Article 17 of the Deregulation a...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1391 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not propose to return to the question of the interpretation of the European Court of ...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 685 c1383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is as generous as both noble Lords were this morning. The point has been made and wil...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I assure the noble Viscount that we will not let the matter rest here, and my noble friend...
Lord Desai | 685 c1379 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I supported the noble Viscount in Committee when he moved a similar amendment. I said at t...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 685 c1375-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 36: Page 17, line 9, at end insert- ““(1B) Where subordinate legislation creat...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1375 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 35: Page 15, leave out lines 14 and 15 and insert ““modified or supplemented f...
Lord Howard of Rising | 685 c1375 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Norton commented, it is lack of action that is the problem. I thin...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1381-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my genuine thanks to the noble Viscount, Lord Colville of Culross, for his diligence...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1380-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that slightly complicates what I intended to say. The report of the noble and learned Lord...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1379 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was not tasked by my Front Bench to reply to this amendment, and I find myself somewhat ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1374-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Rising, for introducing the amendment, ...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 685 c1382-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am entirely in favour of consolidation; there is too little of it at the moment, and it ...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1372 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we share the view of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and support the amendment tabled ...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1371-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 33: After Clause 20, insert the following new clause- ““APPLICATION OF HUMAN R...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1373 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to have that negative reply to what seems a useful amendment. During this debat...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1372-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, in proposing this amendment, seeks strangely t...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c1369 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support this amendment for the reasons given by the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, and have ...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1369 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, to which I have added my n...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1369-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I always admire the telegraphic style of the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland. It is most helpfu...
Lord Howard of Rising | 685 c1373-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 34: After Clause 20, insert the following new clause- ““PUBLICATION OF DEPARTM...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1374 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise briefly because I have added my name to the amendment. It strikes me as extremely s...
Lord Desai | 685 c1366 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not persuaded by the idea put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, that s...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 685 c1365-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment No. 28. I am in the same quandary over this issue: I do not thi...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 685 c1365 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have Amendments Nos. 31 and 32 in this group. We have listened to two powerful speeches ...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1363-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment No. 30 in this group. Its purpose is to shift the onus for...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1363 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 28: Page 6, line 18, at end insert- ““( ) An order under this Part which creat...
Lord Norton of Louth | 685 c1362-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand where the Minister is coming from. I was not implying that there was unrestri...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1361-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment No. 22 and its consequential Amendments Nos. 23 and 24 seek, as the noble Lord d...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1368-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 29: Page 7, line 17, at end insert ““, and ( ) a statement that in his view th...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 685 c1366-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a valuable mini-debate on the appropriate level of scrutiny for a draft orde...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1368 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate has seen three alternatives proposed, each of which has merits and is arguably...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 685 c1358-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 20: Page 4, line 26, leave out from ““impose”” to end of line 27 and insert ““...
Lord Goodhart | 685 c1371 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a little puzzled by the explanation given by the Minister. He started by saying that ...
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Crime Bureaucracy Delegated legislation Church of England Human rights EU law Government departments Legislation European communities Ministerial powers Railways Mergers Parliamentary procedure Regulation Utilities Reform Taxation European economic area
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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2005-06
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