United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Debate between Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town and Baroness Henig

Report stage & Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) & Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords
Monday 23rd November 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab)]

I beg to move Amendment 34.

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Henig) (Lab)]

No, you cannot; it has been pre-empted by Amendment 31. I am sorry.

[Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab)]

I think the agreement is that it will stand in its place anyway.

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[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Henig) (Lab)]

My advice was that, if Amendment 31 was agreed to, Amendments 32 to 35 would have been pre-empted. That was certainly the legal advice that I read out right at the beginning.

[Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab)]

The issue is that, although the regulations have been taken out—as with my Amendments 15 and 20 that have already gone before, and indeed Amendment 19 in the name of the Minister—the agreement was that the way we deal with them would nevertheless stand. That is why Amendments 15, 19, 20 and 27 were all allowed.

If it has been pre-empted, may I suggest that we vote on it? I gather that the Government will not resist, and I am sure that the clerks can then disallow it should they find that we should not have done it. I beg to move.