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EnactedRoyal Assentc. 23

Subsidy Control Act 2022

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Amendments 40

Committee stage — Lords 20

NotMovedClause 13EditBillBody

leave out subsection (2)

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Sheehan#90768
WithdrawnClause 12EditBillBody

leave out subsection (2)

Moved: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride#90769
NotMovedClause 11EditBillBody

at end insert— Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must seek the consent of the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland.

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Randerson#90770
NotMovedClause 10EditBillBody

after “Parliament” insert “or the relevant devolved legislature”

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Humphreys#90771
NotMovedClause 10EditBillBody

after “Parliament” insert “or the relevant devolved legislature”

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Humphreys#90772
WithdrawnClause 10EditBillBody

at end insert— A streamlined subsidy scheme may be made, in particular, to support areas of relative economic deprivation.”

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Humphreys#90773
NotMovedClause 10EditBillBody

after “Crown” insert “, Scottish Minister, Welsh Minister or Northern Ireland department”

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Humphreys#90774
NotMovedClause 12EditBillBody

at end insert— Nothing in this section prevents financial assistance being given by a public authority to anybody it deems appropriate in support of achieving cultural or environmental objectives for which it has responsibility.”

Moved: Lord Wigley#90879
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— Financial assistance, for the purposes of this Act, does not include payments made to public bodies who have a responsibility for the provision of public services within the territory of the public authority.”

Moved: Lord Wigley#90880
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

after “Parliament” insert “or in legislation enacted by Senedd Cymru or the Scottish Parliament”

Moved: Lord WigleySponsor: Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Humphreys#90881
AgreedClause 10EditBillBody

at end insert— A subsidy scheme or streamlined subsidy scheme may provide for the value of a subsidy to be determined by reference to its gross cash amount or the gross cash equivalent.”

Moved: Lord Callanan#90885
AgreedClause 11EditBillBody

at end insert— Provision under subsection (2)(a) may provide for the value of a subsidy to be determined by reference to its gross cash amount or the gross cash equivalent.”

Moved: Lord Callanan#90886
WithdrawnClause 10EditBillBody

leave out subsections (5) and (6) and insert— A streamlined subsidy scheme must be made or modified by regulations subject to the negative procedure.”

Moved: Lord Fox#90948
DisagreedClause 11DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Lord Fox gives notice of his intention to oppose the Question that Clause 11 stand part of the Bill.

Moved: Lord Fox#90949
NotMovedClause 13AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Application of the subsidy strategy

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Sheehan#90954
WithdrawnClause 9AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “The subsidy strategy

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Baroness Sheehan#90955
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

at end insert— No payment may be regarded as a subsidy if it is equally and freely available to all enterprises whose economic activity, to which the payment relates, is undertaken wholly or largely within the territory of the body making the payment.”

Moved: Lord Wigley#90957
WithdrawnClause 12EditBillBody

at end insert— must not make the scheme without a statement that the scheme will operate, either in full or in part, under this Act or EU regulations.”

Moved: Lord Purvis of TweedSponsor: Lord Fox#90984
NotMovedClause 9AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “The areas of disadvantage subsidy strategy

Moved: Lord Ravensdale#91007
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

after “grants” insert “, equity”

Moved: Viscount Chandos#91008

Report stage — Lords 20

AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

leave out “give a direction” and insert “make regulations”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92281
AgreedClause 33EditBillBody

leave out “, or a subsidy scheme made,”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92311
AgreedClause 33EditBillBody

leave out “in any other form, within six” and insert “or made in any other form, within three”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92313
AgreedClause 33EditBillBody

at end insert— if made as a subsidy scheme in the form of a tax measure, within three months of the confirmation of the decision to make the scheme, or”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92314
AgreedClause 33EditBillBody

after “given” insert “as a subsidy”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92315
AgreedClause 33EditBillBody

leave out “£500,000” and insert “£100,000”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92316
AgreedClause 32EditBillBody

at end insert “, and the subsidy database is kept under review in such manner and at such intervals as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92317
AgreedClause 27EditBillBody

leave out subsections (3) to (5)

Moved: Lord Callanan#92318
AgreedClause 26EditBillBody

leave out subsections (4) to (6)

Moved: Lord Callanan#92319
AgreedClause 25EditBillBody

leave out subsections (4) to (6)

Moved: Lord Callanan#92320
AgreedClause 18EditBillBody

at end insert— The prohibition in subsection (1) does not apply if the public authority giving the subsidy is satisfied that the conditions in subsections (5) to (7) are met.

Moved: Lord CallananSponsor: Lord Ravensdale, Baroness Blake of Leeds#92321
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

leave out subsection (7) and insert— Regulations under subsection (4) are subject to the negative procedure.”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92322
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

leave out from “must” to “if” in line 31 and insert “by further regulations under subsection (4) revoke regulations under that subsection in respect of a marketable risk country”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92323
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

leave out from “if” to end of line 23 and insert “regulations made by the Secretary of State provide for the marketable risk country to be so treated.”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92324
AgreedClause 11EditBillBody

after “reference” insert “(among other things)”

Moved: Lord Callanan#92325
AgreedClause 10EditBillBody

at end insert— If, within the 40-day period, either House of Parliament resolves not to approve the scheme, or the scheme as modified, then, with effect from the end of the day on which the resolution is passed, the scheme, or the scheme as modified, is to be treated as not having been made.

Moved: Lord Callanan#92326
NotMovedClause 12AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Determination of the equity rationale for a subsidy

Moved: Lord Thomas of CwmgieddSponsor: Lord Ravensdale, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Wigley#92341
WithdrawnClause 10EditBillBody

after “Crown” insert “of his or her own accord or by a Minister of the Crown upon a reasonable request to make such a scheme addressed to him or her by the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers or the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland”

Moved: Lord Thomas of CwmgieddSponsor: Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Wigley, Baroness Randerson#92342
WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

after “grants” insert “, investment in equity securities”?

Moved: Viscount Chandos#92352
NotMovedClause 33EditBillBody

at end insert— If, within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which a public authority awards a subsidy to a beneficiary under a subsidy scheme, the awarding of any additional subsidies to that beneficiary under the same scheme would lead to a cumulative award in excess of the amount specified in subsection (2)(c), the public authority must, as soon as practicable, meet the requirements under subsection (1) in respect of each award.”

Moved: Lord McNicol of West KilbrideSponsor: Lord Fox#92357