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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 791 Wednesday No. 144 23 May 2018 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Royal Assent.....................................................................................................................1023 Questions Northern Ireland: Devolved Institutions ......................................................................1023 Tourism.........................................................................................................................1026 Turkey: Kurds and Yazidis in Syria..............................................................................1028 Railways: East Coast Main Line ..................................................................................1030 Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill [HL] First Reading.................................................................................................................1033 Child Safeguarding Practice Review and Relevant Agency (England) Regulations 2018 Motion to Approve ........................................................................................................1033 Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2018 Motion to Approve ........................................................................................................1033 Restriction on the Preparation of Adoption Reports (Amendment) Regulations 2018 Motion to Approve ........................................................................................................1036 Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (Structural Changes) Order 2018 Dorset (Structural Changes) (Modification of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007) Regulations 2018 Motions to Approve.......................................................................................................1038 Somerset West and Taunton (Local Government Changes) Order 2018 Somerset West and Taunton (Modification of Boundary Change Enactments) Regulations 2018 Motions to Approve.......................................................................................................1049 Legislative Reform (Regulator of Social Housing) (England) Order 2018 Motion to Approve ........................................................................................................1057 Passenger Ships: Evacuation, Search and Rescue Plans Question for Short Debate ............................................................................................1061 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. No proofs of Daily Reports are provided. Corrections for the bound volume which Lords wish to suggest to the report of their speeches should be clearly indicated in a copy of the Daily Report, which, with the column numbers concerned shown on the front cover, should be sent to the Editor of Debates, House of Lords, within 14 days of the date of the Daily Report. This issue of the Official Report is also available on the Internet at https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2018-05-23 The first time a Member speaks to a new piece of parliamentary business, the following abbreviations are used to show their party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Ind UU Independent Ulster Unionist Lab Labour LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2018, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 1023 Royal Assent [23 MAY 2018] Northern Ireland: Devolved Institutions 1024 House of Lords theMinisterandtheGovernmenthonourtheircommitments to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of public Wednesday 23 May 2018 services to the people of Northern Ireland with the state of paralysis that has now ensued? 3 pm Lord Duncan of Springbank: The Government are Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Oxford. studying that judgment very carefully. Its implications are significant; indeed, an appeal against it may be Royal Assent lodged. It is a reminder that we need a restored Executive because we cannot keep placing on the shoulders of 3.06 pm civil servants such a heavy and onerous burden. The following Acts were given Royal Assent: Baroness Blood (Lab): My Lords, following on from Data Protection Act, the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Empey, I Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act, understand that there will be an appeal, which will Smart Meters Act. take six months, and then another appeal, which will take a further six months. Northern Ireland does not have that capacity; we do not have that time. We have Northern Ireland: Devolved Institutions an almost invisible Secretary of State. People on the Question ground believe that Westminster’sonly interest in Northern Ireland is Brexit and the border. Given that, the one 3.07 pm question being asked on the streets of Northern Ireland Asked by Lord Lexden today is: who is actually running Northern Ireland? To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards the restoration of devolved Lord Duncan of Springbank: Brexit has been a focus institutions in Northern Ireland. of discussion in this House and elsewhere. The people of Northern Ireland deserve an Executive focused The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern on the issues that matter to them: education, health, Ireland Office and Scotland Office (Lord Duncan of schools, farming and all the obvious stuff. We need to Springbank) (Con): My Lords, my right honourable get the Executive back up and running; the parties friend the Secretary of State recently met Northern need to do so. At the moment, the pilot light is on, but Ireland’s five largest political parties to explore how no one is twirling those knobs. We need to get the we might achieve restoration of devolved government. Executive restored. We also continue to reach out to the Irish Government to encourage support towards accommodation to restore Lord Browne of Belmont (DUP): My Lords, the the Executive. This is the Government’s top priority. recent report from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee makes some excellent proposals, which, if Lord Lexden (Con): My Lords, we all wish the adopted by the Secretary of State, would go some way Government well in their endeavours to restore power- to helping restore devolved government in Northern sharing devolution in Northern Ireland. In the prolonged Ireland. Is the Minister aware that the Democratic absence of devolution, do the Government intend to Unionist Party’s policy is very clear: it is willing to consider the possibility of an interim arrangement by return to the Northern Ireland Executive tomorrow which Members of the Assembly could be involved in with no preconditions or partisan demands? decision-taking on the major public services—particularly health and education—which are now entirely in the hands Lord Duncan of Springbank: I welcome those remarks of civil servants, unaccountable to elected representatives in the spirit in which they were delivered. The report of in either Northern Ireland or Westminster? That has which the noble Lord speaks is important and the never before occurred in our modern history. Government will consider its findings carefully. Lord Duncan of Springbank: It is our single most important priority to re-establish the Executive and Baroness Suttie (LD): My Lords, does the Minister Her Majesty’s Government are doing all they can to agree that an additional consequence of the continued achieve that end. We pay tribute to those civil servants absence of an Executive is that important social issues who have carried a much heavier burden than they remain unresolved, such as the reform of the 150 year- would have anticipated, but our single most important old, outdated abortion laws in Northern Ireland, which priority remains to secure a functioning and sustainable continue to cause such distress and are leading women Executive. increasingly to adopt the dangerous practice of self- medicating and purchasing abortion pills online? Lord Empey (UUP): Is my noble friend aware that, in the High Court last Monday, Mrs Justice Keegan Lord Duncan of Springbank: Abortion is of course decided that a senior civil servant did not have the a devolved matter. None the less, it is important to authority to sign off on the construction of a waste plant? stress that there are issues of conscience that need to As a consequence, all significant decisions hitherto taken be considered—but, again, we should not be relying by senior civil servants have now stopped. How can on a Victorian law. It is time for change. 1025 Northern Ireland: Devolved Institutions [LORDS] Tourism 1026 Lord Maginnis of Drumglass (Ind UU): My Lords, must face is a simple one right now. That judgment is when will the Government recognise that Taoiseach significant. In the past, the Government have sought Varadkar is in cahoots with Sinn Féin and encouraging to plot a trajectory from the policies and decisions it not to
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