Table of Contents for
Monday 13 Oct 2014

Volume No. 756Part No. 37

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House of Lords

Introduction: Lord Suri

Death of a Member: Viscount Allenby of Megiddo - Announcement

Retirement of Members - Announcement

Scottish Referendum - Question

EU: Reform - Question

Ukraine - Question

NHS: Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment - Question

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day)

Amendment 1

Ebola - Statement

Scotland within the United Kingdom - Statement

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued)

Amendment 4

Amendment 6

NHS: Cottage Hospitals - Question for Short Debate

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued)

Amendment 7

Amendment 12

Clause 2: Removal of restriction on standing for election for both constituency and electoral region

Amendment 13

Amendment 15

Amendment 18B

Grand Committee

Arrangement of Business - Announcement

Consumer Rights Bill - Committee (1st Day)

Clause 2: Key definitions

Amendment 1

Clause 3: Contracts covered by this Chapter

Amendment 3

Amendment 4

Clause 9: Goods to be of satisfactory quality

Amendment 6

Clause 11: Goods to be as described

Amendment 8

Amendment 9

Clause 17: Trader to have right to supply the goods etc

Clause 19: Consumer’s rights to enforce terms about goods

Amendment 11

Amendment 12

Written Statements

Afghanistan - Statement

Armed Forces: Reserve Forces - Statement

British Film Institute: Triennial Review - Statement

Cold Weather Payments - Statement

Crime: Victims of Crime - Statement

Defence Nuclear Committee and the Nuclear Research Advisory Council - Statement

Defence: Iraq - Statement

Defence: Maritime Support Delivery Framework Contracts - Statement

EU: Informal Energy and Environment Council - Statement

EU: Informal Health Council - Statement

HM Passport Office - Statement

Hong Kong - Statement

Iraq: Reserve Forces - Statement

Railways: High Speed 2 - Statement

Republic of Ireland: Financial Assistance - Statement

Universal Credit - Statement

Written Answers

McKinsey and Company - Question

Offences against Children: Rotherham - Question

Asylum: Sudan - Questions

Autism - Question

Basketball - Question

Battle of Waterloo - Question

Cameroon - Questions

Claims Management Services - Question

Courts Martial - Question

Debts - Questions

Developing Countries: Disability - Questions

Egypt - Question

Gambling Commission - Questions

General Practitioners - Question

Grammar Schools - Question

Hospitals: Staffordshire - Questions

Human Trafficking - Question

Human Trafficking: Children - Question

Iraq - Questions

Islamic State - Questions

Middle East - Question

Muslim Brotherhood - Question

NHS: Obesity - Questions

NHS: Staff - Questions

Nigeria - Question

Obesity - Question

Parking - Questions

Patrol Craft: Iraq - Question

Productivity - Question

Public Expenditure - Question

Reading Station - Questions

Sanctions: Russia - Question

Sierra Leone - Question

South Sudan - Questions

Sports: Drugs - Question

Sports: Finance - Question

Sportsgrounds: Disability - Question

Sri Lanka - Question

Sudan - Questions

Syria - Questions

Typhoid: Vaccination - Question

University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Question

Unmanned Air Vehicles - Questions

Veterans UK - Question





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Monday 13 Oct 2014

Column: 1

House of Lords [13 Oct 2014]

2.30 pm

Introduction: Lord Suri

2.38 pm

Death of a Member: Viscount Allenby of Megiddo - Announcement

2.44 pm

The Lord Speaker (Baroness D’Souza):

Retirement of Members - Announcement

2.45 pm

The Lord Speaker (Baroness D’Souza):

Scottish Referendum - Question

2.45 pm

Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD):

Lord Sharkey (LD):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab):

Column: 3

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Lord Cormack (Con):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Lord Tyler (LD):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Column: 4

Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Lord Elis-Thomas (PC):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab):

The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston):

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon:

Column: 5

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

EU: Reform - Question

2.54 pm

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Lord Dykes (LD):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Column: 6

Lord Bach (Lab):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Lord Howell of Guildford (Con):

Column: 7

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Lord Liddle (Lab):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Ukraine - Question

3.02 pm

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Column: 8

Lord Spicer (Con):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Baroness Falkner of Margravine (LD):

Column: 9

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

The Lord Bishop of St Albans:

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

NHS: Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment - Question

3.08 pm

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Column: 10

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab):

Earl Howe:

Lord Sharkey (LD):

Earl Howe:

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB):

Earl Howe:

Column: 11

Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab):

Earl Howe:

Lord Avebury (LD):

Earl Howe:

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab):

Earl Howe:

Column: 12

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day)

3.16 pm

Amendment 1

Lord Wigley (PC):


Column: 13


Column: 14

Column: 15

Lord Elis-Thomas (PC):

3.30 pm

Column: 16

Lord Crickhowell (Con):

Column: 17


Column: 18

Baroness Morgan of Ely (Lab):

3.45 pm

Column: 19


Column: 20

Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD):

Baroness Morgan of Ely:


Column: 21

Lord Elis-Thomas:

Baroness Morgan of Ely:

Lord Rowlands (Lab):


Column: 22

4 pm

Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD):


Column: 23

Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB):


Column: 24

Column: 25

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office (Baroness Randerson) (LD):

4.15 pm

Column: 26


Column: 27

Lord Richard (Lab):

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB):

Column: 28

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab):

Baroness Randerson:

4.30 pm

Column: 29

Lord Wigley:

Lord Purvis of Tweed:

Column: 30

Lord Wigley:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Wigley:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Wigley:

Column: 31

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Wigley:

Ebola - Statement

4.40 pm

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):


Column: 32


Column: 33

Column: 34

4.52 pm

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab):

Column: 35

Column: 36

5 pm

Earl Howe:

Column: 37


Column: 38

5.08 pm

Lord Patel (CB):

Earl Howe:


Column: 39

Column: 40

Baroness Hamwee (LD):

Earl Howe:

Lord Winston (Lab):

Earl Howe:

Column: 41

Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB):

Earl Howe:

Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab):

Column: 42

Earl Howe:

The Countess of Mar (CB):

Earl Howe:

Baroness Andrews (Lab):

Earl Howe:

Column: 43

Baroness Warnock (CB):

Earl Howe:

Scotland within the United Kingdom - Statement

5.28 pm

The Advocate-General for Scotland (Lord Wallace of Tankerness) (LD):

Column: 44

Column: 45

5.33 pm

Lord McAvoy (Lab):

Column: 46

5.37 pm

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:


Column: 47

5.40 pm

Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:


Column: 48

Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Column: 49

Lord Strathclyde (Con):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan (Lab):

Column: 50

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab):

The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con):

Lord Martin of Springburn (CB):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Column: 51

The Earl of Caithness (Con):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:


Column: 52

Lord Steel of Aikwood (LD):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB):

Lord Wallace of Tankerness:

Column: 53

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued)

6.02 pm

Amendment 4

Baroness Morgan of Ely (Lab):

The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con):

Column: 54

Baroness Morgan of Ely:

Column: 55

Lord Wigley (PC):

Lord Richard (Lab):

Column: 56

6.15 pm

Lord Wigley:

Column: 57

Lord Rowlands:

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office (Baroness Randerson):


Column: 58

Baroness Morgan of Ely:

Amendment 6

Lord Rowe-Beddoe (CB):

Column: 59

6.30 pm

Lord Richard:

Column: 60

Lord Elis-Thomas (PC):


Column: 61

Baroness Humphreys (LD):

Column: 62

6.45 pm

Column: 63

Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB):


Column: 64

Column: 65

Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab):

Lord Elystan-Morgan:

7 pm

Lord Anderson of Swansea:

Column: 66


Column: 67

Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD):


Column: 68

Lord Roberts of Llandudno (LD):

Lord Anderson of Swansea:

Lord Roberts of Llandudno:

Baroness Gale (Lab):

Column: 69

7.15 pm

Column: 70

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Thomas of Gresford:

Baroness Randerson:


Column: 71

Lord Elystan-Morgan:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Elis-Thomas:

Baroness Randerson:


Column: 72

7.30 pm

Lord Anderson of Swansea:

Baroness Randerson:

Column: 73

Lord Richard:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Elis-Thomas:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Rowe-Beddoe:

Column: 74

NHS: Cottage Hospitals - Question for Short Debate

7.38 pm

Lord Naseby (Con):

Column: 75


Column: 76

7.48 pm

Lord Framlingham (Con):


Column: 77


Column: 78

7.54 pm

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab):

Column: 79

8.01 pm

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):


Column: 80


Column: 81


Column: 82


Column: 83

8.15 pm

Wales Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued)

8.25 pm

Amendment 7

Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab):


Column: 84

Lord Wigley (PC):

8.30 pm

Column: 85

Baroness Morgan of Ely (Lab):

Lord Elis-Thomas (PC):

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office (Baroness Randerson):


Column: 86

Baroness Randerson:

Column: 87

Lord Anderson of Swansea:

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Anderson of Swansea:

8.45 pm

Amendment 12

Column: 88

Lord Tyler (LD):

Column: 89

Column: 90

Baroness Gale (Lab):


Column: 91

9 pm

Column: 92

Lord Elis-Thomas:

Lord Rennard (LD):

Column: 93

Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB):

Column: 94

Baroness Randerson:


Column: 95

9.15 pm

Lord Tyler:

Column: 96

Clause 2: Removal of restriction on standing for election for both constituency and electoral region

Amendment 13

Lord German (LD):

Column: 97

Column: 98

Lord Wigley:

Lord German:

Column: 99

9.30 pm

Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD):

Column: 100


Column: 101

Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB):

Lord Thomas of Gresford:

Baroness Morgan of Ely:

Lord Thomas of Gresford:

Baroness Randerson:


Column: 103

9.45 pm

Column: 104

Lord German:

Column: 105

Amendment 15

Column: 106

Amendment 18B

10 pm

Column: 107

Lord Thomas of Gresford:

Lord Wigley:


Column: 108

Baroness Randerson:

Lord Elystan-Morgan:

Column: GC1

Grand Committee [13 Oct 2014]

Arrangement of Business - Announcement

3.30 pm

The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Bichard) (CB):

Consumer Rights Bill - Committee (1st Day)

Clause 2: Key definitions

Amendment 1

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab):


Column: GC2


Column: GC3

Baroness Crawley (Lab):


Column: GC4

Baroness Wilcox (Con):

3.45 pm

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Baroness Neville-Rolfe) (Con):

Column: GC5

Column: GC6

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:


Column: GC7

Clause 3: Contracts covered by this Chapter

Amendment 3

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Lab):

Column: GC8

4 pm

Column: GC9

Column: GC10

Baroness Jolly (LD):


Column: GC11


Column: GC12

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara:

Column: GC13

4.15 pm

Amendment 4

Baroness Neville-Rolfe:

Clause 9: Goods to be of satisfactory quality

Amendment 6

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Column: GC14

Baroness Jolly:


Column: GC15

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:


Column: GC16

Baroness Jolly:

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Clause 11: Goods to be as described

Amendment 8

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Column: GC17

4.30 pm

Baroness Drake (Lab):


Column: GC18

Baroness Jolly:

Column: GC19

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:


Column: GC20

4.45 pm

Amendment 9

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:


Column: GC21


Column: GC22


Column: GC23

Baroness Neville-Rolfe:


Column: GC24

5 pm

Column: GC25


Column: GC26

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Clause 17: Trader to have right to supply the goods etc

Clause 19: Consumer’s rights to enforce terms about goods

Amendment 11

Column: GC27

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:


Column: GC28

5.15 pm

Baroness Jolly:

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Baroness Jolly:

Column: GC29

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town:

Amendment 12

Baroness Jolly:

Column: GC30

Column: WS1

Written Statements [13 Oct 2014]

Afghanistan - Statement

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Column: WS2

Armed Forces: Reserve Forces - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

British Film Institute: Triennial Review - Statement

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Column: WS3

Cold Weather Payments - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord Freud) (Con):

Crime: Victims of Crime - Statement

The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Faulks) (Con):

Column: WS4


Column: WS5

Defence Nuclear Committee and the Nuclear Research Advisory Council - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

Column: WS6

Defence: Iraq - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):


Column: WS7

Defence: Maritime Support Delivery Framework Contracts - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

Column: WS8

EU: Informal Energy and Environment Council - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma) (Con):

Column: WS9

EU: Informal Health Council - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

HM Passport Office - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con):


Column: WS10

Hong Kong - Statement

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Iraq: Reserve Forces - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):


Column: WS11

Railways: High Speed 2 - Statement

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Kramer) (LD):


Column: WS12

Republic of Ireland: Financial Assistance - Statement

The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury (Lord Deighton) (Con):

Column: WS13

Universal Credit - Statement

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord Freud) (Con):

Column: WA1

Written Answers [13 Oct 2014]

McKinsey and Company - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

Offences against Children: Rotherham - Question

Lord Newby (LD):

Column: WA2

Asylum: Sudan - Questions

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con):

Lord Bates:

Lord Bates:

Column: WA3

Autism - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools (Lord Nash) (Con):

Basketball - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Column: WA4

Battle of Waterloo - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Cameroon - Questions

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Column: WA5

Claims Management Services - Question

The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Faulks) (Con):

Courts Martial - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

Debts - Questions

Column: WA6

The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury (Lord Deighton) (Con):

Developing Countries: Disability - Questions

Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD):

Column: WA7

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Egypt - Question

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Column: WA8

Gambling Commission - Questions

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

General Practitioners - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Column: WA9

Grammar Schools - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools (Lord Nash) (Con):

Hospitals: Staffordshire - Questions

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Earl Howe:

Column: WA10

Earl Howe:

Human Trafficking - Question

The Advocate-General for Scotland (Lord Wallace of Tankerness) (LD):

Human Trafficking: Children - Question

Column: WA11

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con):

Iraq - Questions

Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD):

Lord Wallace of Saltaire:

Islamic State - Questions

Column: WA12

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Middle East - Question

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Column: WA13

Muslim Brotherhood - Question

Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD):

NHS: Obesity - Questions

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Earl Howe:

Column: WA14

NHS: Staff - Questions

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Earl Howe:

Column: WA15

Nigeria - Question

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Obesity - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Column: WA16

Parking - Questions

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Kramer) (LD):

Column: WA17

Patrol Craft: Iraq - Question

The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills & Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Livingston of Parkhead) (Con):

Productivity - Question

Column: WA18

The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills & Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Livingston of Parkhead) (Con):

Public Expenditure - Question

The Commercial Secretary to the Treasury (Lord Deighton) (Con):

Column: WA19

Reading Station - Questions

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Kramer) (LD):

Baroness Kramer (LD):

Sanctions: Russia - Question

Column: WA20

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord De Mauley) (Con):

Sierra Leone - Question

Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD):

Column: WA21

South Sudan - Questions

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Column: WA22

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Sports: Drugs - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Column: WA23

Sports: Finance - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Sportsgrounds: Disability - Question

Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Con):

Sri Lanka - Question

Column: WA24

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Sudan - Questions

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Syria - Questions

Column: WA25

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Anelay of St Johns) (Con):

Baroness Jolly (LD):

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con):

Column: WA26

Baroness Anelay of St Johns:

Typhoid: Vaccination - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Earl Howe) (Con):

Column: WA27

Unmanned Air Vehicles - Questions

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Baroness Kramer) (LD):

Column: WA28

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):

Veterans UK - Question

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Astor of Hever) (Con):