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Queen's Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (13 May 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I shall speak about consumer rights, on which a number of things are to be welcomed. First, I welcomed the opportunity of hearing the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox of Soho. We look forward to her continued activity on behalf of consumers, particularly in disadvantaged communities. Secondly, I welcome the proposed consumer rights Bill and everything in it....

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for making reference to my noble friend Lord Browne of Ladyton, who has just talked about surrogate parentage. Perhaps we can all claim a little of that. However, the contributions of the noble Lords, Lord May of Oxford, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, Lord Bew, Lord Faulks and Lord Phillips of Sudbury, and the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, actually...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: It was the word "bring". What we are trying to say regarding permissions is that permission of the court should be required in order to bring that action. In a sense, the most effective speech about permissions was, of course, made not by me but by the noble Lord, Lord May of Oxford. He discussed the case of Wilmshurst, which involved four years, £300,000, a risk to patients and actually...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: It is interesting, but performance of public function will be under either a contract or a commission given out by the DWP or the local authority. They will be able to define that, because they do not simply stand up and say, "I am now providing a hospital". A contract will exist with what used to be a PCT and is now a GP commissioning group. There will be a contract and it can be defined in...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: Parliament can decide that the organisations contracted to do those public functions should have the same restrictions on them, whether that be FOI or anything else, as a corporate body. That can be part of the contract. In a sense, it is a simple issue, and I mean this with absolute respect. I know that lawyers much prefer that these issues are decided in court. I think non-lawyers prefer it...

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: If they read my article, they would see that it says that this Bill has gone a long way towards what we want and it is only a shame that it is not perfect. As somebody who likes perfection, I am going to ask the House if, particularly on the first amendment, we should ensure that organisations carrying out a public service should not have the right to sue for libel.

Defamation Bill — Commons Reasons (23 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, in moving Motion B1, I start with an extraordinarily warm welcome for government Amendment 2B. There is absolutely no doubt that, late conversion though it may have been by the Government to the arguments of our Benches and of this House, it is a most important and welcome clause. It owes much to the persuasive charms-or energy, in the words of the noble Lord, Lord Lester-of the...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments (22 April 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I welcome and support Motion E. I pay tribute to a number of key players who have brought us to this happy position. First, there is the coalition of those interested in the well-being of tenants and landlords, as the Minister has mentioned, such as Which?, Shelter and RICS, which have given me a lot of help not only in drafting but in the persuasion, if I may say, of this House and...

United Kingdom: Future Demographic Trends — Question for Short Debate (14 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, for securing this debate. Although he concentrated on population size, I note that this debate is taking place on the very day of the publication of the Filkin report, Ready for Ageing?, which is very apt. I will concentrate more on that. I also congratulate him because it is less than 24 hours since we heard...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Report (13 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: I will live up to what the noble Lord, Lord True, expects and disappoint him. Not everyone was here in Committee, when this was discussed at greater length and there was an amendment to reduce the number-I think to four, or even to zero-so it was not as clear-cut then that the number should be increased. Indeed, the number six is not the full number of people who will necessarily always have...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Report (13 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I join others in thanking the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Guildford for the clarity and fullness of his contribution, which was appreciated around the House. The noble Lord, Lord Cormack, seemed to imply that allowing Catholic marriage would somehow endanger the Protestant succession. I think he is wrong. As it will remain the case that no Catholic may succeed, or indeed...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Report (13 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, as we said in Committee, the Duchy is about property, business, title and, indeed, money. Although we agree that those are, as my noble friend said, important issues and we would undoubtedly welcome the end of the inequality-the mistreatment, we might say, of women-as regards the Duchy, they do not concern the Crown succession and therefore, along with the noble and learned Lord,...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Report (13 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, this is an interesting discussion but, as the House will know, the Bill has three purposes, all of which are about changing the succession to the Crown. One is to allow women to inherit if they are the eldest; the second is to allow people not to have to forgo their place in respect of the Throne if they were to marry a Catholic; and the third is to allow people to maintain their...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (3rd Day) (6 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, not surprisingly we support these amendments. I have been working with ARMA on trying to get some of this done. There will be a voluntary scheme, but only the good ones will join. The advantage of these amendments is that they will make sure that everyone, not only the good, will have to meet those standards.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (3rd Day) (6 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, this amendment simply asks that letting agents should have to sign up to a redress scheme. We have checked it with the lawyers, and it does not apply to development land or anything else. If that was the case, and if the noble Lord had said he that accepted the need for redress, that it was just the wording that needed changing and that it was coming back at Third Reading, I would...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (3rd Day) (6 March 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, this simple amendment in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, would make letting and block managing agents have to belong to a redress scheme. Estate agents must belong to a redress-that is, an ombudsman-scheme. That is good for users, having an independent arbitrator to sort out disputes. Also, if an estate agent repeatedly cheats consumers, or does so particularly...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Committee (Continued) (28 February 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Lang, for his historical insight. As a mere contemporary historian, I think more in months than decades. However, I note that in the period I have studied, families have become rather smaller; having two or four children seems to be slightly more normal now. If it is true that the Deputy Prime Minister took six as a purely arbitrary figure,...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Committee (Continued) (28 February 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, I will be brief. I am sure that the Minister will give good answers to the questions raised. Perhaps he may also, for my clarification, let us know about the implications for adoption in this. I am sure that it is in the noble and learned Lord's briefing. We agree that the Bill is to change the rules of succession as regards gender and the ability to marry someone of the Catholic...

Succession to the Crown Bill: Committee (28 February 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Deben, says, the issue is a sensible one. I then break with the tradition of everyone else who has spoken by saying it may be a sensible issue, but the issue is about property, the ownership of an estate, about title-as reflected in the words of the noble Lord, Lord Lang-or about a business, in the words of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick....

Succession to the Crown Bill: Committee (28 February 2013)

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: My Lords, given that we support the Bill, this amendment does sound rather like, "Please make me chaste, but not quite yet". Some of us have waited, particularly for the first part of it, for many years and we certainly would not want to see any delay. Therefore, we hope that the amendment will not be passed.