Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Oliver Heald (Conservative), on Wednesday, 15 December 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 94 members in total.

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THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE MENTAL CAPACITY BILL

That this House expresses its deep concern that during the debate on consideration of the Mental Capacity Bill on 14th December, a document relating to and important to the debate was not made available by Ministers to honourable Members in all parts of the House, but only to Labour honourable Members, namely a letter from the Lord Chancellor to the Archbishop of Cardiff; considers that it is a matter of constitutional importance that all relevant documents referred to by Ministers in the House should be made available to all honourable Members; notes the remarks of the Lord Chancellor on the Today programme of 15th December that the correspondence took place at around lunchtime and was sent straight down to the Commons and distributed around the Commons; further notes that despite these remarks the letter from the Lord Chancellor was not available in the Vote Office at 3.45 p.m.; applauds the ruling of Mr Deputy Speaker that this should not happen again; and calls on the Leader of the House to make a statement giving such an assurance on behalf of the Government.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

404 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Parliamentary scrutiny

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk