United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Baroness Henig Excerpts

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

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

I should inform the House that, if Amendment 31 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 32 to 35.

Clause 17: Services: exclusions

Amendment 31

Moved by

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Amendment 31 agreed.

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

Amendments 32 and 33 have been pre-empted.

Amendments 32 and 33 not moved.

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

Amendment 34 has also been pre-empted.

Amendment 34

Moved by

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[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.

Amendment 34 agreed.

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

Amendment 35 has been pre-empted.

Amendment 35 not moved.

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Amendment 36 agreed.

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

We come to the group beginning with Amendment 37. I remind noble Lords that Members other than the mover and the Minister may speak only once and that short questions of elucidation are discouraged. Anyone wishing to press this or any other amendment in this group to a Division should make that clear in debate.

Schedule 2: Services exclusions

37: Page 461, line 30, at end insert—

“Teaching Services

provision of teaching services in schools or colleges”

Member’s explanatory statement
This amendment would add the profession of teacher and teaching services to the scope of the exclusions from the Bill, in the same way that the legal professions and legal services are excluded.