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Business of the House

I hope that the Leader of the House has had a chance to read a letter in The Times today from six professors of law at Cambridge university, expressing their concern about the extraordinary powers granted to the Government by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, which is now widely known as the ““Abolition of Parliament Bill””. Will he take steps to rescind the decision of the House last Thursday not to consider the Bill in a Committee of the whole House but to take it upstairs? Surely, given the Bill’s massive constitutional importance and the seriousness of what part 1 does to the House’s powers, all Members should have the opportunity to discuss it in detail on the Floor of the House.