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Constitutional Reform

I have gained as much information as I can while sitting here on what was said this morning. I do not want to mislead the noble Lord or the House. I understand that the 21 recommendations will go before the other place; for those that are objected to, the Government are committed to bringing them back to the House in the form of amendable resolutions. My right honourable friend the Leader of the other place said: ""At the point at which they are amendable, any recommendation from the Wright Committee’s report can thereby be attached"." I do not think that I should say any more about the noble Lord’s pertinent question. As for reforms of this House’s procedures, the noble Lord, Lord Butler, and others made a strong plea that the equivalent of the Wright committee should be set up here. My reply, I am afraid, is perhaps more "Yes Minister" than it ought to be: it is a matter for the House authorities—I mention to the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, that they are not quite the same as the usual channels—whether a similar review should be carried out in this House. There is clearly quite a lot of feeling that it should be.