"The noble Baroness will be aware, and I am sure she will agree, that if the Bill comes back a second time to the Commons, it will come back here. The effect of the Parliament Act is not to stop further debate but simply to prevent the House blocking the …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"The point that has been made repeatedly in this House is that public opinion is in favour of this Bill and the Commons has passed it. Therefore, we have a duty to get through our business. Does the noble Lord agree?..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"The noble Lord says that there has been no publicly available impact assessment; that is wrong. There is a publicly available impact assessment, published not by the sponsors but by the Department of Health and Social Care...." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"Is the noble Baroness’s position that we have completed our scrutiny in Committee of all clauses beyond the seven that she has mentioned? If not, I am not quite sure what point she is making. We certainly mentioned those clauses, but the idea that we completed our scrutiny is nonsense...." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"My Lords, I give special thanks to those who shared personal experiences with us, in particular the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Dobbs, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Newcastle, the noble Baronesses, Lady Hollins and Lady Grey-Thompson, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Prentis, and my noble …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"I apologise for intervening but I completely agree with what the noble Baroness has just said. The way in which that would happen is that the Bill would come back from the Commons and we would agree here to put in the amendments that I put in as a result …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"This is a most interesting speech. On the basis of what the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, is saying, if the judge was still there then the Bill would be okay. Why could we not have got to Report and voted on that to make a decision on it?..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech