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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Tuesday, 21 December 2010, in the House of Lords.

Public Bodies Bill [HL]

Public Bodies Bill [HL]. Lords committee stage debate (fifth day). Schedule 1 amendments debated and withdrawn.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
723 c1055-90 
Session
2010-12
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Grantchester | 723 c1079-81 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak also to Amendments 35, 36, 38 and 48, which are grouped with this one. Amendment 29 is...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1055-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to seek fully to understand and evaluate the rationale fo...
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Lord Borrie | 723 c1090 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Young of Norwood Green for speaking. He made a ...
Baroness Wilcox | 723 c1088-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, for his amendment because it means that we have to lo...
Lord Henley | 723 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I shall respond to one particularly lengthy speech from my fellow Cumbrian, the noble Lord, Lord Cla...
Earl of Selborne | 723 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I defer to no one in my admiration for the noble Lord, Lord Clark, for his distinguished p...
Lord Clark of Windermere | 723 c1081-4 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the coalitions in those days were a bit more radical than the current one. But we will let t...
Lord Borrie | 723 c1086-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Competition Service, to which the amendment applies, is a very small cog in the wheel ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 723 c1088 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, noble Lords will be relieved to hear that I do not propose detaining us for long, because ...
Lord Grantchester | 723 c1086 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that clarification. On this side of the House, we will not be tempted to en...
Lord Borrie | 723 c1086 (Link to this contribution) 30: Schedule 1, page 16, line 23, leave out ““Competition Service.””
Lord Clark of Windermere | 723 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I just want to make myself absolutely clear. The Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee was not set up...
Lord Henley | 723 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I see things differently from the noble Lord. If it is not doing anything, if it has not met since 2...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 723 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord also pay tribute to the work of the rural advocate and address the points made b...
Lord Henley | 723 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the noble Lord when I have finished that sentence. It is my right to decide when ...
Lord Grantchester | 723 c1079 (Link to this contribution) 29: Schedule 1, page 16, line 21, leave out ““Committee on Agricultural Valuation (the body establis...
Lord Clark of Windermere | 723 c1081 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 38, which concerns the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee. ...
Lord Henley | 723 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord looks for an independent rural advocate. I do not think that we will be short of any ...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 723 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) While I recognise the strength of what my noble friend said about the department’s commitment, is no...
Lord Henley | 723 c1077 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate that some departments are more equal than others. One of the first things tha...
Lord Greaves | 723 c1077-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I respond to what the Minister said, I would like to thank everybody who has taken ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1055 (Link to this contribution) 27: Schedule 1, page 16, line 19, leave out ““Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.””
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1061 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for that very full reply. I have no intention of pressi...
Lord Freud | 723 c1058-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this seems to be a relatively short debate, which has shown evidence of the great knowledg...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 723 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend decides what to do with his amendment, as he may be drawing his remarks to a ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1062 (Link to this contribution) That is probably a belated intervention on the Minister if he wishes to answer it. One of my questio...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 723 c1062 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, specifically on that question on the board, if the Minister is minded to comment further, ...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1062 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister wants to pick up those points now, perhaps I can come back to my points later.
Lord Freud | 723 c1062 (Link to this contribution) We want to move to the new arrangements as soon as we can. The details of the arrangements for the a...
Lord Greaves | 723 c1063 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I expected that we were breaking for dinner. Do we not break for dinner in Committee?
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 723 c1062 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if I might assist the Committee. We are in Committee and we try to enable as much discussio...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 723 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for participating in the additional exchanges. However, we still need ...
Viscount Simon | 723 c1063 (Link to this contribution) We come to Amendment 28. I call the noble Lord, Lord Greaves.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 723 c1066-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was very pleased to put my name to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I pay ...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 723 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall join in briefly, even though I am far from being an expert on this commission like...
Lord Greaves | 723 c1063 (Link to this contribution) 28: Schedule 1, page 16, line 20, leave out ““Commission for Rural Communities.””
Lord Greaves | 723 c1063-6 (Link to this contribution) This amendment would leave out the Commission for Rural Communities from the list of organisations i...
Lord Greaves | 723 c1063 (Link to this contribution) No? I thought that we were. All right. It is a good job I did not go and have my dinner, isn’t it? ...
Lord Henley | 723 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend touches a sore point: I remember many issues relating to war pensions and other matt...
Lord Henley | 723 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall now address the amendment and put things into an appropriate perspective. I welcom...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 723 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to intervene. I am grateful to my noble friend because I now remember. He was War Pensi...
Lord Clark of Windermere | 723 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Newton, because I want to pick up some of the themes whi...
Lord Grantchester | 723 c1072-4 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for the excellent way that he has put forward his ame...
Subjects
Closures Public bodies Non-departmental public bodies Competition Service Commission for Rural Communities Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission Agricultural Valuation Committee
Legislation
Public Bodies Bill (HL) 2010-12
Link
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