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text: The noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, quite rightly picked up the point that the Minister seemed to quote whichever of the employers are in favour at the moment.
text: I think that the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, would agree that at earlier stages of the Bill we agreed all round the House that on the whole we regretted the explosion of very early sexual activity among young teenagers.
text: My Lords, I start by congratulating, as have many other noble Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, on securing this debate on a wide-ranging topic, on which she spoke with authority and passion, setting the tone for a very serious debate—one that I know the House has been happy to engage in.
text: I was delighted to read in the Financial Times yesterday that amendments derived directly from the Treasury Committee’s report of 24 May have been tabled by my noble friend Lord McFall, a distinguished former chair of the Treasury Committee, and by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, perhaps the most tenacious opposition speaker on Treasury affairs for many a long year
text: I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, that this is an important national debate, which we cannot reduce down to one area or region.
text: My Lords, I join the noble Earl, Lord Russell, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Southwark and other noble Lords in welcoming back the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, to the Dispatch Box.
text: I know that the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, used to be chair of ACAS.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, put it very well when she mentioned LBFTSs.
text: I will not spend too much time on that issue because it was covered by the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott.
text: If there were a clear governance structure, with the roles which exist in modern corporations—described clearly by the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey—being performed, we could understand how the co-ordinating activities referred to by the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, might be carried out.
text: Therefore, we have to see it through, otherwise any outcome will be significantly devalued and it will delay closure on what has been such a controversial episode in British political history, as the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, set out very eloquently.
text: I ask that because we have had another report from Professor Wolf—the noble Baroness, Lady Wolf
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, gave us her own experience of the arrangements for mentoring and coaching and how important that could be, and touched on the need to raise the esteem for vocational education.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, spoke about the issue of older workers and the challenges that they face.
text: That value can come in different forms, as the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, pointed out, both on screen and off.
text: My Lords, I echo what the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, has said.
text: My Lords, on Libya, does the Minister agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, that the important thing now is to secure the peace?
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Howarth, was right in the comments she made about the exception, but I think that the noble Baroness was talking about those cases where the individual was in employment.
text: My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, that the Bank of England needs a modern and transparent form of governance, the best governance that it can have.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, spoke of the importance of leadership and management skills and the Investors in People standard.
text: I promised the noble Baroness, Lady O’Cathain, who is a member of the committee but currently engaged on the HS2 Bill, that I would emphasise that she in particular was very unimpressed by progress; we heard not only of rural locations with difficulty but many challenges even in London—the so-called not-spots.
text: I believe that other ways are more appropriate, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, said.
text: The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con): Before I address the remarks relating to this amendment, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Henig, to the chair.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Jones, asked whether I could guarantee that the GDF would be safe.
text: I know that the noble Baroness, Lady Verma, has been extremely conscientious in her efforts on this issue, and I have no personal criticism of her role whatever.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, did not seem to think that there was very much in that, but there is some evidence from Sweden that that has been the case, and we have had some experience with Albania, when a very large number of families got the idea
text: I wanted to clarify to the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, about the opt-in.
text: Of course, the point of difference between us that the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, mentioned is that the Dublin regulations are—again, this is an awful word—triggered at the point that a person claims asylum.
text: My Lords, I often take my lead from the noble Baroness, Lady Masham.
text: My Lords, we have had a useful debate and I was pleased to hear the comment that the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, has just made.
text: I am quite encouraged by the amendment in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Judd and Lord Peston, which was recently spoken to by the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, but I do not think that Amendment No. 22 goes quite far enough.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, rightly referred to the frightening disparity between the life expectancy in Glasgow and that in Kensington and Chelsea.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden, mentioned the 650,000 who might fall out of the scheme without any savings, as a result of wrong and unsuitable advice at the outset.
text: Should it not be the case that nurses are taught the traditional skills of nursing that are directed at meeting patients' needs, and that if nurses are to be helped by healthcare assistants it is important that the job of nurses is not simply delegated to the kind of untrained people that the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, was talking about?
text: My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Scotland of Asthal, was right about what the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth of Breckland, said.
text: First, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, for being such a gracious and excellent understudy for moving my Amendments 34 and 42 last Thursday week.
text: As the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, rightly identified, in abolishing the SSSNB now, the Government are scrapping it before it has had time to finish delivering the job profiles that it was set up to produce.
text: Interestingly, as the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said, the people who have been working on the job profiles have not gone away; they have simply been absorbed back into the Office of Manpower Economics, and are therefore available to carry on with the work where they left off, so there is no great saving to be had by abolishing the SSSNB.
text: As the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said, when this found its legislative form in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, there was no political opposition to it
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, referred to coercion.
text: My Lords, I very much regret that I was not in my place for the start of the remarks made by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley.
text: If we are to move so far in these offences that we dare not prosecute a 17 year-old who is having sex with a 14 year-old, there is much argument in favour of the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, for saying that that should not be a crime.
text: Accepting that we are going where we are with the Bill, which I think in the long term will turn out to he a blind alley in terms of making sexual offences so heavily punished that it really becomes quite difficult to convict ordinary malefactors for them, if we want to spare our young from the consequences of moving in that direction I should like to see us making it explicit that there are lighter sentences and lighter conditions on the young if they trespass but not going as far as the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, proposes and making such matters not crimes at all.
text: My Lords, my name is added to the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, but I am happy to support the amendments tabled by the Government.
text: We have come a long way in this discussion during the course of the Bill, as the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said on her previous group of amendments.
text: § Baroness Howarth of Breckland My Lords, while I prefer the wording of the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, I, too, am pleased to accept the alternative tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Scotland.
text: I should like to say to the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, that her amendment is essentially negative, while the government amendment is essentially positive.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, will know that people take advantage of the moment at which young people display their anxieties about something.
text: However, it is important to say for the record that the reason Victoria Gillick went to court was not as the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, described it.
text: § Lord Lucas My Lords, I have tabled an amendment in this group, which supports Amendment No. 18 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley.
text: § Baroness Walmsley My Lords, I have been quoted by the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, so I feel that I should respond to the amendment.
text: My Lords, I would support the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, were it not for the fact that my understanding
text: I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, for her warm compliments.
text: Although the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, has fashioned her amendment and expressed it slightly differently, it is very similar to one that she proposed on Report.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, may be concerned about persons giving advice to a child on their own.
text: I listened very carefully to what the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, said about paedophile charters.
text: That may go some way to meeting the concerns which the noble Baroness, Lady Blatch, rightly puts before the House.
text: Here, we agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, and the noble Lord, Lord Kestenbaum, spoke of the need to invest in research and innovation.
text: We agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, that we need positive action on diversity and participation in the workplace and we are working towards this.
text: My Lords, I start by congratulating, as have many other noble Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, on securing this debate on a wide-ranging topic, on which she spoke with authority and passion, setting the tone for a very serious debate-one that I know the House has been happy to engage in.
text: Here, we agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, and the noble Lord, Lord Kestenbaum, spoke of the need to invest in research and innovation.
text: We agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Prosser, that we need positive action on diversity and participation in the workplace and we are working towards this.
text: I say with all due respect that the noble Lord, Lord McFall, and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, are not natural political allies.
text: Lord Eatwell: Will the noble Lord give his view of the amendments that we could call the Treasury Committee amendments, which are going to come before us and have been tabled by my noble friend Lord McFall and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes?
text: I echo what the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, said about the desirability of making it as clear as possible that the individual characteristics of the defendant—such as some degree of mental infirmity, properly proved—are to be taken into account.
text: I am sure that it would be of great assistance to the House, and I will seek to ensure that a similar document to that which the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, currently holds in her hand is put into the Library.
text: The noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, indicated that the OBR forecast might be too pessimistic and there were reasons for being optimistic.
text: A number of questions were raised and I will try to go through them as quickly as possible but I would like to go back to the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington.
text: As the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, commented, it has a decay life of perhaps 10,000 or more years.
text: As the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, pointed out, this debate needs to be properly informed.
text: Lord Empey (UUP): My Lords, in very broad terms I welcome the extension, although the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, makes a fair point about its annual nature.
text: My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Empey, and the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for their contributions.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, mentioned pension tax relief.
text: I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, that similar provisions should be extended to the state second pension.
text: Everyone anticipated that the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, would make a powerful speech about women.
text: As has already been noted, it came as no surprise to hear the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, address the issue of womens pensions.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, highlighted the labour market’s need to be able to respond to changes resulting from the rise of social media.
text: I know that the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, used to be chair of ACAS.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, highlighted the labour market's need to be able to respond to changes resulting from the rise of social media.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, raised a point about the self-employed and HMRC and DWP, and of course I will pursue that.
text: This includes helping new drivers to stay safe through a number of actions, such as, as mentioned by the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, encouraging learner drivers to increase on-the-road experience before taking their test and reinforcing vital road safety measures through our THINK! campaign.
text: I think it was the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, who raised the important point about helmets.
text: On that note, I took note of the interesting speech of the noble Lord, Lord Low; this was also raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, spoke about seat belts—another important issue.
text: My Lords, I have particular cause to thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for organising this debate.
text: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for bringing this subject to our attention.
text: My Lords, like others, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for initiating and introducing this debate.
text: When the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, was introducing the Motion she said that what she was talking about was generally not technically sophisticated.
text: I think the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, also made the point that the action which it took post the referendum decision has enabled the economy to be more resilient than it otherwise would have been.
text: The noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, welcomed the reduction in corporation tax, although the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, was not quite so keen.
text: As for new powers for Parliament, the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, and the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, talked about the importance of national parliaments having a direct say in making European laws.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Williams, and the noble Lord, Lord Jay, talked about the spread of human rights and democracy.
text: the noble Baroness, Lady Wolf, as she now is—in her latest publication,
text: I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, who has changed her place in the Chamber, that horticulture jobs are valuable.
text: I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, for drawing our attention to older workers.
text: Channel 4 has a strong record in many areas of its remit—as the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, says, in some areas it exceeds it
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Morris, spoke about previous guidance which did not seem to make much difference.
text: Lord Lamont of Lerwick: My Lords, will the Leader of the House possibly correct the attempts of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, to rewrite history?
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Howarth, helpfully referred to monitoring.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, made the same point half an hour or so ago.
text: The noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, spoke of the importance of leadership and management skills and the Investors in People standard.
text: I promised the noble Baroness, Lady O’Cathain, who is a member of the committee but currently engaged on the HS2 Bill, that I would emphasise that she in particular was very unimpressed by progress; we heard not only of rural locations with difficulty but many challenges even in London—the so-called not-spots.