Pension Schemes Bill [HL]

Debate between Baroness Fookes and Lord Warner

Committee stage & Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard) & Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard): House of Lords
Wednesday 4th March 2020 Grand Committee

[Lord Warner]

I wish to respond to the Minister before I withdraw my amendment.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees]

Once the noble Lord has spoken, the question has to be put.

[Lord Warner]

I thought that I am allowed to say whether I am withdrawing the amendment.

[Baroness Fookes]

It has not yet technically been moved, and you are now moving it. Perhaps I should clarify for the Committee that where there is a group of amendments being debated together, only the first amendment is moved. If a noble Lord wishes to move an amendment, it has to come in its numerical order. The noble Lord was not moving his amendment, he was speaking to it.

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[Baroness Fookes]

Yes, he must move it, because he has started to speak to it.

[Lord Warner]

I beg to move Amendment 86. In response to the Minister, I think we will need to have some kind of meeting after 11 March, which may involve some of the parties who are very anxious about this. I hope the Minister will take away that thought and get back to me, and to others, when he has had time to consider.

[Baroness Fookes]

If no member of the Committee wishes to respond, the noble Lord may withdraw the amendment.

[Lord Warner]

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

[Baroness Fookes]

I am sorry about the schoolmistressy lesson on the subject.