"My Lords, I am grateful for this extended debate, which was broken in the middle of the group. I will make a couple of general points before I respond to individual amendments.
"That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 9 September be approved.
Relevant document: 13th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (special attention drawn to the instrument). Considered in Grand Committee on 28 October...." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"The noble Lord is quite right: any assessment of pilots must take cost into account.
I turn to Amendments 129 and 136, tabled respectively by the noble Lords, Lord Jackson of Peterborough and Lord Walney. It has been good to have the opportunity to consider this important and sensitive issue. …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"Before I respond to the amendments, I must correct a date I gave in the debate on the previous group. I said that the tabling date for amendments for the next set of Committee groups was 9 November, but it is 17 November. My apologies for that. The amendments in …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"I wish the noble Lord well for his rehearsal and look forward to coming to one of the concerts in due course.
Noble Lords may recall that a similar amendment to this one was debated in Committee in the other place. Our position remains that a statutory reporting requirement is …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"These issues have to be tackled when and as they arise. The point I was making is that making general points relating to that is not helpful.
I will now address the amendments. I understand and share the intention of the noble Lord, Lord Fuller, for young people to receive …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"Can I just finish responding, then I will happily give way? Our focus is on delivering this manifesto commitment—on which this Government were elected—which recognises that 16 and 17 year-olds have views that deserve to be represented and that young people should have a say in decisions that affect them. …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"I have heard what the noble Lord has said. In my view, requiring such an assessment before these changes can be implemented would introduce a completely unnecessary additional step and could delay the delivery of a very important manifesto commitment on which, as I have said, we have done a …..." Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - View Speech
"I hope I will have an opportunity to speak to Professor Steinberg at some point, but I think we need to move on and talk about what we are going to do in terms of education.