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Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None to Clause 1, add the purpose of compliance with the rule of law to that of deterrence. - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) , we are ill equipped to adjudicate. - Speech Link
3: None boats—to be left solely dependent on a further, independent assessment by an external body such as the - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) joint committee—the body made up of officials from the two Governments and hence anything but independentto - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) the context of the Ministerial Code, that we do not think our international obligations matter. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None The 2023 House of Lords report makes much of the ministerial code and the civil service code, stating - Speech Link
2: None Moreover, the ministerial code is a convention, not legislation. - Speech Link
3: None five years ago by the distinguished Lord Faulks KC, that the ministerial code still requires compliance - Speech Link
4: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) Attorney General is prepared to sign off and what the ministerial code will allow. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (CON - Harwich and North Essex) Your sex actually is there in every single cell in the body.”The responsibility for clarity starts with - Speech Link
2: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) want to become an MP and enter government, most recently with the introduction of the Ministerial and - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) Many of those women do not have a body, or even a body part, but they are dealing with their grief by - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) schemes for legal compliance with the Equality Act? - Speech Link
5: Eleanor Laing (CON - Epping Forest) There is clearly a difference of opinion, and that is not a matter on which the Chair can adjudicate, - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Subsidy Control Bill
Committee stage - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) as it sits within the seven principles, and then we are going to rely on the CAT to adjudicate. - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) with them on many of the details, and we have engaged extensively at ministerial and official levels - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) Therefore, the ability of an independent body such as the CMA to have the power to call in and build - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (LAB - Life peer) independent body, more powers to follow through and ensure that transparency is actually there. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Etherton (CB - Life peer) This would provide balance, clarity, certainty and compliance with Article 9 and Section 13 of the Act - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) It is not there to determine the substance of ministerial decisions. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) This dedicated chair role will allow the committee to speak with an established and independent voice - Speech Link
4: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) that can properly and impartially adjudicate on the issues before it.To illustrate my point, the following - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) As I have said, appointments will be decided in accordance with the code on public appointments. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 13 May 2021
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) good governance, which means fair lobbying rules, obedience to the Ministerial Code, and open and fair - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) of the courts to adjudicate on the propriety of executive actions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) On the other hand, a loyal Johnsonite such as Priti Patel can breach the Ministerial Code with impunity - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Much of this Government’s behaviour—breaking the Ministerial Code repeatedly, making increasingly partisan - Speech Link
5: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) , by which I mean the courts, the enforcement of the Ministerial Code and the independence of the Civil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) with the Ministerial Code. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) The International Criminal Court is an independent body, and it would be inappropriate for the Attorney-General - Speech Link
3: None Therefore, all these amendments are necessary to ensure that there is full compliance with the Belfast - Speech Link
4: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) the need to adjudicate on events so far past that memories and evidence become too unreliable. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
Report stage:Report: 1st sitting - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) Instead, compliance with an authorisation will be relevant to any public interest consideration to prosecute - Speech Link
2: None Amendments 1 and 2 would ensure that the nature of and compliance with criminal conduct authorisation - Speech Link
3: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) views of the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, would have had the necessary skills to adjudicate on these matters - Speech Link
4: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) I suspect that the Minister would want to refer to the code, at least generally, which is peppered with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Tue 01 Dec 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Campbell-Savours (LAB - Life peer) ISC.As I read it, it is uncertainty over compliance with the Human Rights Act, the ECHR and the implied - Speech Link
2: Lord Janvrin (CB - Life peer) about compliance with the law. - Speech Link
3: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) On the advice of one noble Lord, I read the code of practice that goes with this Bill. - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) or other body, of a potentially ill-judged or just plain wrong authorisation of criminal conduct, with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage:Report: 3rd sitting (Hansard) - Tue 22 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) This is pertinent, as the Food Standards Agency is an independent, non-ministerial department while the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morris of Bolton (CON - Life peer) Power to make regulations for securing compliance with WTO Agreement on Agriculture: generalAmendment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) purpose of ensuring compliance with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. - Speech Link
4: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) an independent body of expertise in animal welfare and environmental standards to advise the Government - Speech Link