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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Wednesday, 9 March 2011, in the House of Lords.

Public Bodies Bill [HL]

Public Bodies Bill (HL). Lords committee stage ninth day. Schedule 4 : Power to modify funding arrangements: bodies and offices, agreed to as amended. Clause 5: Power to modify or transfer functions, agreed to as amended. Schedule 5 agreed to as amended. Clause 8: Matters to be considered, agreed to. Clause 9: Devolution, agreed to as amended. Clause 10: Procedure for orders, disagreed to. Clause 11: Power to amend Schedules 1 to 6, agreed to. Schedule 7 disagreed to. Clause 12: Procedure for orders under section 11, disagreed to. Clause 13: Powers relating to environmental bodies, agreed to. Clauses 14, 15, 16 agreed to. Clause 17: Powers relating to functions of Secretary of State, disagreed to. Clause 18: Powers relating to Forestry Commissioners, disagreed to. Clause 19 disagreed to. Clause 20: Restriction on creation of functions, agreed to. Clause 21: Restriction on transfer and delegation of functions, agreed to. clause 23: Transfer schemes, agreed to as amended. Clause 24: Transfer schemes procedure, agreed to as amended. Clauses 25 and 26 agreed to. Clause 27: Orders: supplementary, agreed to. Clause 28: Interpretation, agreed to as amended. Clause 29 agreed to. Clause 30: Commencement, agreed to. Clause 31 agreed to. Title, as amended, agreed. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 56 2010-12).

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725 c1615-73, c1689-748 
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2010-12
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Morris of Aberavon | 725 c1616-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment moved so ably by the noble Lord, Lord Roberts of Llandudno. I hope...
Lord Roberts of Conwy | 725 c1623-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I thank those previous speakers who have referred to my part in the birth of S4C wh...
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Lord Rowlands | 725 c1627-8 (Link to this contribution) I support this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, was right to remind us of the situation befor...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 725 c1615 (Link to this contribution) 83: Schedule 4, page 19, line 9, leave out ““Sianel Pedwar Cymru (““S4C””).””
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 725 c1615-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the House of the great struggle to establish a Welsh-language television channel....
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c1628-9 (Link to this contribution) Everybody who has spoken in this debate already and very probably everybody present in the House wou...
Baroness Morgan of Ely | 725 c1630-2 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment put down by the noble Lords, Lord Roberts, Lord Elystan-Morgan, Lord Rowland...
Lord Nickson | 725 c1632 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for speaking in this debate. I did not come into the Chamber expecting to speak today. M...
Lord St John of Fawsley | 725 c1629-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been entirely convinced by the noble Lord’s eloquence in support of Welsh as a livi...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c1630 (Link to this contribution) It is very late in this debate but I wholeheartedly agree. A survey carried out about 100 years ago ...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 725 c1633-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether that learned classical intervention is designed to undermine the case that I a...
Lord Richard | 725 c1634-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I detect that the atmosphere in the House is that we are anxious to get on, listen to the ...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 725 c1633 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, despite my Welsh ancestry and, indeed, my part-Welsh title, the House will have noticed th...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c1633 (Link to this contribution) ““Senedd”” indeed means senate; it is one and the same. However, the origin of senate is ““senex””, ...
Baroness Gale | 725 c1635-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to speak in the debate. I say to all noble Lords who have taken...
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 725 c1635 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak briefly. The history and complexities of the issue have been eloquently outli...
Lord Sanderson of Bowden | 725 c1635 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this debate because I come from Scotland. However, I wa...
Lord Richard | 725 c1636 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is making a speech from the Front Bench. With great respect, the Minister ought to h...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1637-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to make it clear that I am answering as the Minister from the DCMS, as this ...
Lord Rowlands | 725 c1638 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness mentioned the need for the particular order-making power to change the financial ...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1638 (Link to this contribution) I do not think there is. That is why it is in this Bill. In relation to Amendment 113D in the name ...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 725 c1638 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if my noble friend would allow me to intervene for a second? I understand that she may be m...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1638 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concern of my noble and learned friend Lord Howe, but we go back to the current eco...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1730 (Link to this contribution) 114: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— ““Consultation (1) A Minister proposing to mak...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1730 (Link to this contribution) 113E: Clause 9, page 4, line 44, leave out ““(4)(b)”” and insert ““(4A)”” Amendment 113E agreed. C...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1729 (Link to this contribution) 113AA: Clause 9, page 4, line 22, at end insert ““, or (b) which modifies the functions of the Scott...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1729-30 (Link to this contribution) 113BA: Clause 9, page 4, line 27, leave out ““(2)”” and insert ““(2)(a)”” 113BB: Clause 9, page 4,...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1728 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, government Amendments 113ZA to 113E would change the circumstance in which consent is requ...
Lord Rowlands | 725 c1728-9 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the amendments introduced by the Minister, because the Constitution Committee made ...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1727 (Link to this contribution) In that case, why does subsection (4) of Clause 27 need to be in the Bill? I do not expect an answer...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1727 (Link to this contribution) 113ZA: Clause 9, page 4, line 20, leave out ““Scottish Ministers”” and insert ““Scottish Parliament”...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1726 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I need hardly say that I intend to withdraw the amendment. However, I wish to make a few o...
Lord Wigley | 725 c1740 (Link to this contribution) 166BZA: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause— ““Welsh language requirements (1) An eligi...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 725 c1735-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am delighted that the Minister has added his name to the Clause 11 and Schedule 7 stand part...
Viscount Eccles | 725 c1739 (Link to this contribution) This clause covers the procedure for orders made under Clause 11, so I imagine that it must go. It i...
Lord Norton of Louth | 725 c1732 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise briefly to welcome the decision of the Government not to proceed with Clause 11 and...
Lord Goodhart | 725 c1732 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support what my noble friend Lord Norton said. The independence of the judiciary is a ce...
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 725 c1732-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I declare an interest as chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel, which is part ...
Lord Rowlands | 725 c1734-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had tabled two amendments in this group, Amendment 131, to leave out the Advisory Counci...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1730-2 (Link to this contribution) 118: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— ““Procedure (1) If after consultation under se...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 725 c1741 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we support the amendments because they would safeguard and promote the Welsh language. The...
Lord Wigley | 725 c1740-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving this amendment I shall speak also to Amendment 166BZB. I certainly shall not und...
Lord Wigley | 725 c1742 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that response. On the second of the two proposed new clauses, that an assuran...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1741-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we return to Wales. At this late hour, I am sure that noble Lords will appreciate my being...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 725 c1743-4 (Link to this contribution) I believe that Charles James Fox became known as the dinner bell because when he got up to speak eve...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 725 c1742-3 (Link to this contribution) 175ZA: Before Clause 20, insert the following new Clause— ““Restrictions on Ministerial powers (1) T...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 725 c1745 (Link to this contribution) I have been privileged to put my name to the amendment and of course I support it wholeheartedly. It...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1745-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted that the amendment has received such a welcome. As noble Lords will know, m...
Lord Norton of Louth | 725 c1745 (Link to this contribution) I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, and all those involved in generating the amendment. ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 725 c1746 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly welcome these amendments and the removal of the final references to the Forestry ...
Lord Henley | 725 c1746 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with some delight and some relief that I move Amendment 175C and in doing so speak t...
Lord Henley | 725 c1746 (Link to this contribution) 175C: Clause 23, page 11, line 38, leave out paragraph (c)
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1748 (Link to this contribution) 182: In the Title, line 3, leave out ““to make provision in relation to forestry;”” Amendment 182 a...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1747-8 (Link to this contribution) 179: Clause 28, page 14, line 34, at end insert— ““(2) In this Act, references to the ““30-day””, ““...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1747 (Link to this contribution) 175E: Clause 24, page 13, line 4, leave out subsection (4) Amendment 175E agreed. Clause 24, as am...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1746-7 (Link to this contribution) 175D: Clause 23, page 12, line 1, leave out ““or (c)”” Amendment 175D agreed. Clause 23, as amende...
Baroness Deech | 725 c1703-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on a factual point, may I correct the impression—it may have been a mistake— that the prev...
Lord Winston | 725 c1704 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me for correcting that impression. Many units limited the number of embryos well before the ...
Lord Patel | 725 c1704 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think I have lost my thread, but I have said what I wanted to say.
Earl Howe | 725 c1704-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks to all noble Lords for the opportunity to debate these ame...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 725 c1698-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gyna...
Lord Winston | 725 c1700-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend Lord Warner has declared support for the Minister sitting on the Front Ben...
Lord Warner | 725 c1707 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. I have been listening intently to what he has said. I am extre...
Baroness Thornton | 725 c1707-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everybody who has contributed to this debate. I knew that it would be an interesti...
Earl Attlee | 725 c1710-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was surprised when the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, did not move his amendment, so it is a g...
Lord Whitty | 725 c1711 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that it is in order for me to reply, given that my noble friend moved the amendment. H...
Lord Bradshaw | 725 c1710 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support what the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, said. There is certainly scope for economy. I ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1709 (Link to this contribution) 98: Schedule 5, page 19, line 25, leave out ““Passengers’ Council (““Passenger Focus””).””
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1709 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will move the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Whitty. Passenger Focus play...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1708-9 (Link to this contribution) 95A: Schedule 5, page 19, line 22, at end insert ““in England”” Amendment 95A agreed. Amendments 9...
Lord Whitty | 725 c1711-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Earl. Of course, some of the make-up of the board reflects the structure of the ra...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1712 (Link to this contribution) 99A: Schedule 5, page 19, line 25, at end insert— ““NOTE 1 Section 21(2)(a) does not apply to an ord...
Lord Dubs | 725 c1666 (Link to this contribution) 89: Schedule 5, page 19, line 16, leave out ““Competition Commission.””
Lord Dubs | 725 c1666-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendments in this group are to do with the Competition Commission and the Office of F...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 725 c1667-8 (Link to this contribution) I have sympathy with the amendment; I think that it is a probing amendment. I certainly welcome the ...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1668 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my noble friend replies with his characteristic clarity, perhaps I may be a seeker ...
Lord Myners | 725 c1668-9 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister assure the House that nothing in the proposals made by the Government in respect o...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1669-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green, described the amendment as a probing amendmen...
Lord Dubs | 725 c1672 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and I am delighted that he has accepted one of the amendment...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1672 (Link to this contribution) There have been early discussions on this matter and I should like to be able to bring the amendment...
Lord Dubs | 725 c1672 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for that helpful response. There is only one issue that I am not clear about. The...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1673 (Link to this contribution) I think that I can reassure the noble Lord. The authority will not be entirely dependent on referral...
Lord Dubs | 725 c1673 (Link to this contribution) In which case, all I would say is that I still think it is too complicated an issue to be dealt with...
Lord Warner | 725 c1691-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 92 and 93 in part in a spirit of helpfulness—I hope tha...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 725 c1693-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I added my name to Amendments 92 and 93. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton,...
Baroness Thornton | 725 c1689 (Link to this contribution) 92: Schedule 5, page 19, line 19, leave out ““Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.””
Baroness Thornton | 725 c1689-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 93, 150 and 151. On Second Reading, many noble Lords expr...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1697 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my reason for not pressing my case earlier was that I knew I was going to be out-gunned by...
Baroness Deech | 725 c1697-8 (Link to this contribution) I support this amendment, and I declare an interest as a former chair of the HFEA. In other words, I...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 725 c1694-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been looking with interest at the very helpful parliamentary briefing, particularly...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 725 c1695-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I came into this House almost 22 years ago, my baptism of fire was the consideration ...
Lord Goodhart | 725 c1658-9 (Link to this contribution) I should like to add a few words in my capacity as the previous chairman, and a member for several y...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1658 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention, because it reflects outside conversations and my di...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1659-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I echo my noble friend Lady Andrews in paying tribute to the stewardship of the nob...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 725 c1654 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel just a little guilty in speaking to this amendment. On several occasions over the p...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 725 c1653-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, am a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. I support eve...
Baroness Andrews | 725 c1658 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may press the noble Lord on one point. I am very appreciative of what he said in...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1655-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can start by reassuring the noble Lord that we will be able to debate both the Human Ferti...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1650-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we come to an important group of amendments, which are in part probing but in part really ...
Baroness Andrews | 725 c1652-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the chair of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committ...
Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 725 c1652 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak at this point wearing my hat as chair of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Refor...
Lord Bradshaw | 725 c1665-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that comment, and the other noble Lords who have contributed. ...
Lord Henley | 725 c1664-5 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is somewhat more experienced in charity law than me, and I am going to be very carefu...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c1664 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my noble friend for giving way. Is the Minister quite sure that the ambition t...
Lord Henley | 725 c1663-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, because the boundary moves. If the noble Lord remembers correctly, that legislation allowed ...
Lord Henley | 725 c1663 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, I regret that we have been deprived of the pleasure of...
Lord Greenway | 725 c1662-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much echo what the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, said in relation to freight carried o...
Baroness Quin | 725 c1661-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, was able to move the amendment in the absenc...
Lord Bradshaw | 725 c1660-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I move the amendment on behalf of my noble friend Lord Greaves, who is ill. We will wait f...
Lord Wigley | 725 c1639 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. Can she confirm that the discussions that she mentioned—DCMS official...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1638-9 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate what my noble friend Lord Thomas said, and I am getting there, but if I am interrupted ...
Lord Morris of Aberavon | 725 c1639 (Link to this contribution) If the sole or main problem for the inclusion of S4C in the schedule is the problem of the RPI formu...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1639 (Link to this contribution) These discussions have been ongoing throughout. The noble Lord also asked whether there was prior co...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c1640 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope I make this point sincerely and in an attempt to assist the situation. At the momen...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1640 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to that a bit later, but it is taking longer every time somebody interrupts. I will get ...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 725 c1641 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for replying to these points. I am in a dilemma. We could go to a vot...
Baroness Rawlings | 725 c1640-1 (Link to this contribution) I will come to the point made by the noble Lord. I appreciate the way in which the noble Lord, Lord ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c1638 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister ready to listen? Her Majesty’s Opposition have suggested that there could be discuss...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1641 (Link to this contribution) 84: Clause 5, page 3, line 2, at beginning insert ““Subject to section (Restrictions on ministerial ...
Baroness Quin | 725 c1646-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome these amendments and am glad that they have been tabled. I welcome the com...
Lord Cameron of Dillington | 725 c1645-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support this series of amendments. It is a pleasure to be speaking on this Bill in the e...
Lord Borrie | 725 c1644-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been very happy to put my name to all the amendments standing in the names of the n...
Bishop of Exeter | 725 c1643-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to speak to this group of amendments. I do so in the absence of the right rev...
Earl of Sandwich | 725 c1649-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I detect that the House will not want to dwell long on this amendment but I will just take...
Lord Henley | 725 c1649 (Link to this contribution) Some of us who have been here for some time remember the late Lord Airedale, who annually moved a Bi...
Bishop of Exeter | 725 c1649 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I might just make the point that this year Easter falls as late as it possibly can do in...
Lord Henley | 725 c1648-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other speakers, I am grateful that we are having this debate early in the afternoon. ...
Earl of Sandwich | 725 c1642-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can promise the Minister that we will move more swiftly on this amendment, which obvious...
Earl of Sandwich | 725 c1641 (Link to this contribution) 85A: Clause 5, page 3, line 11, at end insert— ““( ) An order under this section may modify the func...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1721-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not suppose that the Committee would have chosen to debate this important group of amendments a...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 725 c1720-1 (Link to this contribution) On the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, said, t...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1724-6 (Link to this contribution) Of course and I would like to feel that the noble Lord would know that I wish to continue the very u...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1724 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I will not detain the Committee very ...
Lord Goodhart | 725 c1720 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly interested in what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, has said. It is something that I would ...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1720 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may just indicate briefly that, although I said slightly flippantly that I had not had a c...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1720 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, and I very much look forward to doing...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 725 c1718 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise simply to make it clear to the House that, at this hour of the night, my noble frie...
Lord Goodhart | 725 c1718 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have Amendment 125A in this group. I originally planned to de-group it, because it is di...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1716-7 (Link to this contribution) I wish to move this amendment briefly. I have ended up a bit confused on one point. Until the latest...
Lord Newton of Braintree | 725 c1716 (Link to this contribution) 106A: Clause 8, page 4, line 8, at end insert— ““( ) fairness, openness, transparency and justice;””...
Lord Whitty | 725 c1716 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate much of what the Minister has said about the approach of the Cabinet Office a...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1714-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for tabling the amendment, because it raises an ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1714 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would very much like to support my noble friend on this. It is timely to remember that t...
Lord Whitty | 725 c1713-4 (Link to this contribution) In this amendment, I move away from the detailed consideration of individual bodies and their future...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1712-3 (Link to this contribution) 105ZA: Schedule 6, page 19, line 29, at end insert ““in England”” Amendment 105ZA agreed. Schedule...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1712 (Link to this contribution) 100: Clause 6, page 3, line 13, at beginning insert ““Subject to section (Restrictions on ministeria...
Lord Wigley | 725 c1619-23 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may first declare an interest. Between 2003 and 2006, I was a member of the S4C ...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c1629 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I have not yet resumed my seat. I was only collecting my notes. I shall not delay that e...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1736-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for those contributions. If there were any doubt why we were wise not to keep Sch...
Lord Whitty | 725 c1709-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend did not realise that I had arrived from the airport to move the amendment....
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 725 c1667 (Link to this contribution) I will raise a couple of issues on the consumer aspects—although there may be no other issues, as th...
Lord Bradshaw | 725 c1660 (Link to this contribution) 86: Schedule 5, page 19, line 13, leave out ““British Waterways Board.””
Lord Whitty | 725 c1713 (Link to this contribution) 105A: Clause 7, page 4, line 4, at end insert— ““( ) In relation to a transfer of functions, duties ...
Baroness Gale | 725 c1636-7 (Link to this contribution) I was commenting on what my noble friend Lady Morgan of Ely said about the importance of the Welsh l...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1739-40 (Link to this contribution) Having just been speaking, it was quite difficult to get order into my papers, but I am there now. ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1745 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, that if he continues to table amendments of this qua...
Lord Patel | 725 c1702-3 (Link to this contribution) Briefly, I find myself in support of what was said by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Cla...
Earl Howe | 725 c1707 (Link to this contribution) I must apologise to the Committee if I was not sufficiently clear and I will be happy to write to th...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 725 c1708 (Link to this contribution) 94A: Schedule 5, page 19, line 21, at end insert ““for areas wholly or mainly in England”” Amendmen...
Earl Attlee | 725 c1711 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord asked what reforms we plan under Schedule 3. That schedule can be used to implement c...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 725 c1718-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to a number of the amendments in this group. The amendment of the noble Lord...
Subjects
Complaints Conditions of employment Codes of practice Devolved matters Consumers Accountability BBC Banks Competition British Waterways Competition Commission Fertility Freedom of information Human rights Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Inland waterways Legislation IVF Forestry Commission Forests Ministerial powers Northern Ireland Navigation Public bodies Railways Mergers Parliamentary scrutiny Passengers Staff Office of Fair Trading Non-departmental public bodies Scotland Regulation Wales Welsh language Shipping Research Supermarkets Television Stem cells S4C Human Tissue Authority Passenger Focus Legal Services Board Care Quality Commission Independent Commission on Banking
Legislation
Public Bodies Bill (HL) 2010-12
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