Vol. 773 Tuesday No. 21 5 July 2016 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Outcome of the European Union Referendum Motion to Take Note.....................................................................................................1849 Questions Airports: Runways........................................................................................................1886 Public Health England: Alcohol...................................................................................1889 National Identity Cards................................................................................................1891 Hate Crime ...................................................................................................................1894 Teachers’ Strike Statement......................................................................................................................1896 Outcome of the European Union Referendum Motion to Take Note (Continued) ................................................................................1899 Grand Committee Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016..................GC 163 Electricity Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2016..................................................GC 166 Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Exit from Non-household Retail Market) Regulations 2016 .........................................................................................................GC 171 Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme (England) Order 2016 ........................................GC 181 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2016 Motions to Consider ................................................................................................GC 194 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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Not only would it distance us further from many of the people we are Tuesday 5 July 2016 here to serve; worse, it would be a missed opportunity to serve them better. Instead, we should take this 11.30 am opportunity to play our part in shaping the way ahead and, as I see it, perform our duty of reassuring people Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Ely. about our country’s future by offering some clear thinking about that way forward. Clearly,there is further work for us to do in determining Outcome of the European Union our future relationship with the European Union. As Referendum the Prime Minister said, we are leaving the EU but we Motion to Take Note are not turning our backs on Europe. The next steps will not be easy. There will be complex negotiations 11.36 am ahead but we should approach them with the clear guiding principle of ensuring the best possible outcome Moved by The Lord Privy Seal for the British people. As the Prime Minister has made That this House takes note of the outcome of clear, the nature of negotiations, and the shape of any the European Union referendum. deal we strike, will be for his successor and their Government. That is why it will be for them to decide when to trigger Article 50. The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con): My Lords, our debate today has the potential In the meantime, there is a lot of ground to cover in to be one of the most significant in the recent history examining the options available so that, when decisions of your Lordships’ House. Indeed, I see today as a real are taken, we put our best foot forward and maintain opportunity for us as a House to reflect on the decision Britain’s reputation as an open, outward-looking nation, that has been made and to offer some clear thinking maintaining our strong partnerships in Europe,continuing about the issues we now face as a country. It is an to play our role on the world stage, holding fast to our opportunity for the House of Lords to show why it values of tolerance and respect, and showing that exists. Britain remains open for business. That is something In repeating several Statements over the last week, I that we in Government will do with the input of all have set out the views of Her Majesty’s Government, the devolved Administrations. It is something that I and I want today to be much more than an occasion hope this House will play an important part in as for me to set them out again. Over the next two days well, for among the membership of this House of my noble friend Lady Anelay and I are here primarily Lords we have an unrivalled expertise in EU and to listen, so, in opening, I will try to start the process foreign affairs. We also have a range of EU committees, of reflection by offering my perspective both on the whose dispassionate scrutiny is admired here, in vote itself and on the responsibilities incumbent on Brussels and around the European Union. That means this House, as I see them, in the weeks and months that we are well placed to come forward with ideas to ahead. make a future deal a success for all parts of the United Kingdom. To state the obvious first, the referendum was a momentous democratic exercise. Over the weeks of I know that noble Lords will express views and have the campaign we saw passionate cases put forward by questions about the nature of further parliamentary both sides and, more importantly, we saw voters engage involvement beyond that and the precise form that it with an enthusiasm that we had not seen for many will or should take. Those are valid questions, and the years. Indeed, more than 33 million people from across debate among legal minds has already begun. I know the UK and Gibraltar exercised their democratic right. that our Select Committees may also choose to examine I appreciate that when the votes were counted it was them, but those are questions which will, rightly, be not the result that many of us may have wanted— for the next Prime Minister to address. I am clear, as indeed, 48% of us voted to remain—but the result was Leader of this House, that Parliament should have an clear. By a margin of more than 1 million, 52% of the appropriate role. However, in debating what that role people who voted elected for the United Kingdom to should be, we should be careful to show that our focus leave the European Union—an instruction that this remains on delivering the referendum result and on Government, and all of us, must respect and seek to applying all our knowledge and experience to make act on. our future a successful one for the United Kingdom. That is an important point and brings me on to the Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab): Will the noble broader responsibility we have to bear in mind as we Baroness give way? proceed, particularly as an unelected House. In the period since the vote there has been a lot of analysis and reflection about the reasons people voted how Noble Lords: No. they did. The headline from those who voted to leave was clear: they wanted to leave the European Union. Baroness Stowell of Beeston: It would be possible Their reasons will have varied and, for some people, for us to go over the campaigns again in detail, to look may have developed over many years. However,whatever for ways to re-examine the result or to pose again the those reasons, we must take that message away and question of our EU membership, but in my view that deliver on the instruction we have been given. 1851 Outcome of the EU Referendum[LORDS] Outcome of the EU Referendum 1852 [BARONESS STOWELL OF BEESTON] successful. Unfortunately, it has come not from politics In doing so, we must also consider that the vote or government but from the Welsh football team, reflected something else as well: a frustration with the which brought much-needed cheer to us all. status quo: a sense that voters felt distant from those The debate over the next two days is not about the who exercise power and misunderstood by the people referendum campaign. We are all still seeking to who make the decisions that affect them. So although understand what happens next and where we go from we rightly must focus on the question of our place in here. What alarms me, fuelled by the uncertainty that Europe, as we do so, we must not lose sight of that now affects so many areas of our life, is not only how desire for people to be better understood. If we are few answers the Government have but how few questions able to address the challenges we face with that in appear to have been asked beforehand. Your Lordships’ mind, we will build public confidence in Parliament House, with all its knowledge and expertise, which the and this House within it.