Public Bill Committees
Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill

• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords], 1st sitting (8 speeches)
  [Hywel Williams in the Chair]
  • Clause 1 - The adjudicator (17 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Schedule 1 - The Adjudicator (85 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 1, in schedule 1, page 12, line 8, at end insert ‘following a pre-appointment hearing by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of the House of...
  • Clause 2 - Arbitration (14 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 22, in clause 2, page 1, line 11, at end add— ‘(3) Where the adjudicator is appointing an arbitrator the following must be taken into...
  • Clause 3 - Information about arbitration (3 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Clause 4 - Investigations (17 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 19, in clause 4, page 2, line 5, leav e out subsection (1) and insert— ‘(1) The Adjudicator may carry out an investigation where...
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords], 2nd sitting (0 speeches)
  [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
  • Clause 4 - Investigations (59 speeches)
    Amendment proposed (this day): 19, in clause 4, page 2, line 5, leave out subsection (1) and insert— ‘(1) The Adjudicator may carry out an investigation where...
  • Clause 5 - Investigation reports (19 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 42, in clause 5, page 2, line 21, at end insert— ‘(d) any finding that an investigation should be referred to the Office of Fair...
  • Clause 7 - Investigations: enforcement using recommendations (20 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 35, in clause 7, page 2, line 36, at end insert— ‘(2A) If the Adjudicator determines that a recommendation has not been, or is...
  • Clause 8 - Investigations: enforcement using requirements to publish information (20 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 43, in clause 8, page 3, line 9, at end insert— ‘(d) where it is to be published.’. We are now moving at breakneck speed...
  • Clause 9 (11 speeches)
    Investigations: enforcement using financial penalties
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords], 3rd sitting (0 speeches)
  [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
  • Clause 9 - Investigations: enforcement using financial penalties (41 speeches)
    Amendment proposed (11 December): 44, in clause 9, page 3, line 17, leave out from ‘penalties’ to end of subsection (1).—(Ian Murray.)
  • Schedule 3 - Order conferring power to impose financial penalties (1 speech)
    Question proposed, That the schedule be the Third schedule to the Bill.
  • Clause 10 - Recovery of investigation costs (3 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 10, page 4, line 10, at end insert— ‘(6) Costs do not form part of financial penalties as described in section...
  • Clause 11 - Advice (15 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 11, page 4, line 14, af ter ‘to’, insert ‘the public,’. We are now moving at breakneck speed through...
  • Clause 12 - Guidance (9 speeches)
    Amendments made: 7, in clause 12, page 4, line 20, le ave out ‘and’. Amendment 8, in clause 12, page 4, line 22, at end...
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords], 4th sitting (10 speeches)
  [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
  • Clause 13 - Recommendations to Office of Fair Trading (13 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 16, in clause 13, page 5, line 3, at end add— ‘(2) In considering such changes, the Adjudicator shall review the territorial...
  • Clause 14 - Annual report (9 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 52, in clause 14, page 5, line 12, at end insert— ‘(d) the resources available to the Adjudicator. (e) recommendations made to the...
  • Clause 15 - Review of Adjudicator and guidance from Secretary of State (22 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 15, page 5, line 27, after ‘must’, insert ‘appoint an independent Review Panel to’.
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords], 5th sitting (0 speeches)
  [Hywel Williams in the Chair]
  • Clause 18 - Confidentiality (27 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 26, in clause 18, page 7, line 30, after ‘Adjudicator’, insert ‘or the Deputy Adjudicator or any person acting on the Adjudicator’s behalf’.
  • Clause 19 - Levy funding (15 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 60, in clause 19, page 8, line 23, at end insert— ‘(5A) Notwithstanding section 25, the Adjudicator must publish the criteria as set...
  • Clause 23 - Orders (0 speeches)
    Amendment made: 12, in clause 23, page 10, line 21, l eave out ‘9(1) or’.—(Jo Swinson.)
  • Clause 26 - Short title (2 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment 13, in clause 26, page 11, line 3, le ave out subsection (2). One of the lovely things about this place that one can move technical...
  • New Clause 2 - Extension of groceries code (43 speeches)
    ‘(1) In advance of each annual report prepared under section 14, the Adjudicator shall consider any information received in the preceding year concerning supply relations between suppliers...
  • New Clause 3 - Sunsetting provisions and replacement of current code on statutory footing (18 speeches)
    ‘(1) Within three years of this Act coming into force, the Competition Commission shall conduct a review of the effectiveness of the Act’s provisions with regard to levels of...