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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

I urge the programme motion on the House. I understand the House's frustration about the time, but I also repeat the point that however we cut the time, it will always be limited. I look forward to the votes on Thursday, but if we are going to move to more open-ended debates on Report, in Committee and on the Floor of the House, we will have to have restrictions on the time that individual Members have to speak. Otherwise, we will have the kind of filibustering in which I participated very happily—but not to any great effect—in opposition. That was not particularly productive, and it led to more severe guillotines than anything we have faced under programming.