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Debate on bill on Thursday, 27 April 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hain. The answering member was David Lidington.

Northern Ireland Bill

Northern Ireland Bill. Committee stage . Clauses 1-6 agreed to. Schedules 1-3 agreed to. Bill reported without amendment. Report stage (formal). Third Reading debate. Agreed to on question. Passed.

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2005-06
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Proceeding contributions
Lembit Opik | 445 c754 (Link to this contribution) I am now certain that the Conservatives support the amendment. Unfortunately, Sinn Fein Members have...
Lord Hain | 445 c754 (Link to this contribution) I shall give a more detailed response when I reply to the debate, but I want to point out that there...
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Lembit Opik | 445 c754 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the Secretary of State will find that there has been a degree of movement on this mat...
Lord Hain | 445 c754 (Link to this contribution) There is no cross-party support for it.
Lembit Opik | 445 c754-5 (Link to this contribution) From a sedentary position, the right hon. Gentleman says that there is no cross-party support for th...
Mark Durkan | 445 c755 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State intervened to say that the proposal did not have cross-party support. However...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c755 (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman is trying to build consensus, which is what the whole process is about. As some...
Lembit Opik | 445 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point. I would go so far as to say that Members of the reconstituted Assembly might b...
Lord Bannside | 445 c756-7 (Link to this contribution) : It is hard for the people of Northern Ireland to understand exactly what the Government are about....
Peter Robinson | 445 c764 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the person who made the statement would be in a difficult position, rather than the A...
Peter Robinson | 445 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) Therefore, under it, both the publication and the person to whom the remarks are attributed are cove...
Lady Hermon | 445 c763 (Link to this contribution) I cannot possibly speak for my Assembly colleagues. I could not tie their hands or gag them, for tha...
Peter Robinson | 445 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I will leave it to the hon. Gentleman to speak on behalf of Sinn Fein. I will certainly not attempt ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c764 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman ought to give some credence to what has been said by the hon. Me...
Peter Robinson | 445 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) The statement is covered by privilege, whether it is heard directly, heard through transmission or r...
Lady Hermon | 445 c762 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman outline for the benefit of us all exactly what he anticipates this new Assem...
Lembit Opik | 445 c762 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, if he is at all worried about getting permission from the decisi...
Peter Robinson | 445 c762 (Link to this contribution) Members of the Democratic Unionist party are certainly committed to using every platform that that A...
Peter Robinson | 445 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful argument. I hope that, as the Secretary of State has been considerin...
Sammy Wilson | 445 c761 (Link to this contribution) Given the filters in amendment No. 6—including the requirement for cross-community support, and the ...
Peter Robinson | 445 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to comment on one or two amendments in the group. I agree with the comments of the hon. Membe...
Lord Cormack | 445 c760 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted. However, how do I know what anybody else thinks? How do I know what motivates people...
Lord Cormack | 445 c759-60 (Link to this contribution) Of course. Trust must be reciprocal and indivisible. The Secretary of State is saying to the House, ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c759 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend is making a thoughtful and powerful speech. He has put his finger on the key point—...
Lord Cormack | 445 c757-9 (Link to this contribution) : I am sure that all hon. Members echo the words of the right hon. Gentleman. We all hope that there...
Lord Bannside | 445 c757 (Link to this contribution) I believe in confession but I do not believe in absolution, so I cannot absolve the right hon. Gentl...
Lord Hain | 445 c757 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman allows confessions in his church, but I happily confe...
Lord Bannside | 445 c768 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House of what happened with the Jubilee hospital and with the chairman of the mater...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 445 c766-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate and I have listened intently to those hon. Members who have spok...
Peter Robinson | 445 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He will remember that, when we met with the Secretary of State before the a...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c765 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s point is given added weight when one considers that not only was the Presiding Offi...
Mark Durkan | 445 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised the issue of the decision in relation to maternity services in Belfast...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 445 c768 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is exactly right. In fact, in the example of the Jubilee hospital, which is in ...
Lembit Opik | 445 c751 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wishes to intervene to clarify that point, I shall be happy to give way.
Mark Durkan | 445 c751 (Link to this contribution) I wish the amendments, if they are made, would have the effect of preventing any changes. They would...
Lembit Opik | 445 c751 (Link to this contribution) It reproduces some of the flaws, too.
Lord Bannside | 445 c751 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman comment on the fact that when the Deputy First Minister resigned, his resign...
Lembit Opik | 445 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a self-contained point, and we hear him loud and clear. His youthful ...
Lord Hain | 445 c752 (Link to this contribution) That was not the reason that we refused the hon. Gentleman’s amendment. The translation of the Welsh...
Lembit Opik | 445 c752-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman was not present for the entire debate, but one of the arguments against cal...
Mark Durkan | 445 c753 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman means amendment No. 27, not amendment. No. 7.
Lembit Opik | 445 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and I am grateful for the correction. I do not believe that the provis...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) : On a point of order, Sir Michael. I understood that it was a convention of the House that if the G...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) I am not clear which papers the hon. Gentleman means.
Lady Hermon | 445 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) I shall endeavour to do so. I do, of course, read the right hon. Gentleman’s words in Hansard. I may...
Lord Hain | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr. Lord. [Hon. Members: ““Sir Michael.””] I am grateful, Sir Michael, and apologise ...
Lord Cormack | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) : Those from which the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon) quoted.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) The draft standing orders of the Assembly.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c750 (Link to this contribution) Order. I trust that that adequately deals with the point of order, and that there is no reason for u...
Lembit Opik | 445 c750-1 (Link to this contribution) I begin by speaking to amendment No. 4, which stands in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Membe...
Lady Hermon | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) I think all contributions, in particular the comment by the Secretary of State, have been helpful. ...
Lord Bannside | 445 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the hon. Lady that I was the first person to bring the ““creature”” to the attention of...
Lady Hermon | 445 c748 (Link to this contribution) I hope I do not misrepresent the views expressed, but I take it that the DUP, and certainly its lead...
Lady Hermon | 445 c748-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman is so enthusiastic for me to move to the removal of the direc...
Lord Bannside | 445 c749 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady should read more of Hansard.
Lady Hermon | 445 c747 (Link to this contribution) I was not claiming to myself anything new. I was particularly pleased that yesterday, at the beginni...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c747 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Lady has gone to considerable lengths to prove the nature of the body. Has she ...
Lady Hermon | 445 c748 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising a good point. I have done some homework on sche...
Lord Bannside | 445 c748 (Link to this contribution) Is it not right to remember that the Presiding Officer of the Assembly was never elected by the Asse...
Lady Hermon | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I might as well take a third intervention, especially as I am sure that it will be helpful.
Lord Cormack | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) Does not the Secretary of State’s intervention underline the fact that the hon. Lady is wise to use ...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) I should not have to remind the hon. Gentleman that he should address the Chair. In not doing so, he...
Lord Hain | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) I understand why the hon. Lady is worried about the measure. Although I could have waited until my r...
Lady Hermon | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his helpful intervention. I just hope that those in the media who...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Lady has been talking, I have had the opportunity to read section 50 of the 1998 Act,...
Lady Hermon | 445 c746 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has already chosen an individual to be the Presiding Officer, although I do n...
Peter Robinson | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady does not cancel our engagement for tea. Does the hon. Lady realise that t...
Lady Hermon | 445 c745-6 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, which I am sure was intended to be helpful...
Mark Durkan | 445 c743 (Link to this contribution) I take fully the hon. Gentleman’s point. It is the corollary of the point that I have just made—it i...
Derek Conway | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I have sympathy with the hon. Lady and hope to support amendment No. 26, which she tabled, in due co...
Lady Hermon | 445 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) May I put on the record my deep appreciation of the House authorities and, in particular, the Public...
Alan Reid | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I cannot speak for the Welsh Assembly, but I assure the hon. Lady that the Scottish Parliament has a...
Lady Hermon | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I, as the Member for North Down, could not possibly comment on the business and proceedings of the W...
Lord Cormack | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Lady will find that the same applies to the Welsh Assembly.
Lady Hermon | 445 c745 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for those two interventions.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c737-8 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 16, page 1, line 9, at end...
Mark Durkan | 445 c737 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 7, in clause 1, page 1, line 9, at end insert
Gregory Campbell | 445 c741 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman alludes to two distinct things: either a talking shop, which he appears to...
Mark Durkan | 445 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at amendment No. 7, he will see that it would allow people to consider a...
Mark Durkan | 445 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) We covered many matters yesterday on Second Reading. We have tabled amendments Nos. 7, 8 and 6 to cl...
Mark Durkan | 445 c742 (Link to this contribution) To give the Assembly positive powers on a cross-community basis would, in effect, give one community...
Mark Durkan | 445 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to hearing more from the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues about some of what they ha...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 445 c742 (Link to this contribution) Having read amendment No. 6, it seems that the hon. Gentleman seeks a negative power for the Assembl...
Lord Hain | 445 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) The House of Commons voted yesterday to provide instructions to the boundary commission to work on b...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 445 c770 (Link to this contribution) We will not carry out a funeral procession today because the funeral for the Belfast agreement was h...
Lady Hermon | 445 c770 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman and disagree with most of what he is saying. He canno...
Lord Hain | 445 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr. Robertson) for a helpful contribution, in which he legit...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief because we have had a long debate on the amendments, probably because they are wide ...
Lembit Opik | 445 c773 (Link to this contribution) I am encouraged by the Secretary of State’s comments. Given his form on devolution in Wales, I do no...
Lord Hain | 445 c774 (Link to this contribution) May I finish this point before accepting interventions, including one from the hon. Member for North...
Lord Cormack | 445 c775 (Link to this contribution) As always, I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his impeccable courtesy. Two issues seem to h...
Lord Hain | 445 c775 (Link to this contribution) Parliament has decided on the boundary commissioner’s remit, and I have explained how the Assembly w...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c769 (Link to this contribution) Order. I understand that these matters are relevant to the debate, but I do not think that we ought ...
Iris Robinson | 445 c769 (Link to this contribution) May I just bring some semblance of reality to the debate? The then Minister, Barbara Brown, had anno...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 445 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Sir Michael. I have to make clear what the hon. Member for Foyle has suggested to the Sec...
Lord Cormack | 445 c779 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State used the words ““taken into account””. What precisely do they mean? I revert ...
David Simpson | 445 c780 (Link to this contribution) I have a general question on the point that the Secretary of State made to the hon. Member for Foyle...
Lord Hain | 445 c779-80 (Link to this contribution) I answered that point in respect of water charges. With all due respect to the hon. Gentleman, whose...
Lady Hermon | 445 c775 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been very generous about giving way. He made a passing reference a few mi...
Lord Hain | 445 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) Over the past week or so, I have discussed the idea of the business committee with all the parties i...
Lady Hermon | 445 c776 (Link to this contribution) I have a broad smile on my face, because the Secretary of State has confirmed that the Presiding Off...
Lord Hain | 445 c776-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The parties have always worked together in the Assembly, and the DUP has made it clear that ...
Lady Hermon | 445 c778 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State point to one section of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 that gives the Secr...
Lord Hain | 445 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know better than I do, because she was there at the time, that I am proceeding mu...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to say once again, as most of my hon. Friends said yesterday on Second Reading, that of c...
Lady Hermon | 445 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) As there are parties who want to construe the DUP as having ulterior motives, it would be helpful if...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c786 (Link to this contribution) We had a wide debate on the previous group of amendments and we now come to a group of amendments ta...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c786 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 1 in page 2, line 10, at en...
Lembit Opik | 445 c784 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman said, the Secretary of State’s original argument was that there was no cross-p...
Mark Durkan | 445 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree fully with the hon. Gentleman. The implication of the Secretary of State’s earlier remark wa...
Lord Hain | 445 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) The term ““all-party talks”” means exactly that. No party can exercise a veto, either by not appeari...
Mark Durkan | 445 c781-4 (Link to this contribution) In respect of amendments Nos. 7 and 8, the Secretary of State has indicated that the Government’s pu...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c786 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 10, in clause 2, page 1, line 19, leave out ‘before 25th November 2006’....
Lord Hain | 445 c785 (Link to this contribution) I am provoked into intervening briefly because the hon. Gentleman’s party—together with Sinn Fein—di...
Mark Durkan | 445 c785 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Secretary of State could explain to us at some point the difference between a shadow Ass...
Alasdair McDonnell | 445 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) I intend to be brief. I am not quite as vociferous, or windy, as some of my colleagues and hon. Memb...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) I am persuaded by the hon. Gentleman’s eloquence. He made the important point earlier that if we wer...
Alasdair McDonnell | 445 c792 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman please explain what he found wrong with our talking to the Irish Government?...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 445 c792 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments tabled in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for North Antrim (Rev...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c790 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the amendment would not take away the deadline because the Secre...
Lembit Opik | 445 c790 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made it clear that his vote is negotiable, so perhaps I can persuade him to s...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c790 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asks me to speculate about what we would do in government. It is not that far off...
Lembit Opik | 445 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to amendment No. 1, in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and ...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c789 (Link to this contribution) I would like to contribute briefly to the debate on amendments Nos. 10 and 14, in particular. I can ...
Lembit Opik | 445 c789 (Link to this contribution) I am a little surprised by what I think that the hon. Gentleman just said. He said that he would sup...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was rather scathing about deadlines himself yesterday. I have every respect for t...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c796 (Link to this contribution) The Government will look at exercising that pressure and that power. However, I cannot accept the am...
Gregory Campbell | 445 c796 (Link to this contribution) : Does the Minister agree that the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, North (Mr. D...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c795 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State were present in Armagh on 6 Apri...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c795 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the Government are committed to the deadline, but reports in the media and el...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c795 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Dodds) for stepping in to move the amend...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 445 c794 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that I was expanding the point a little, Mrs. Heal, but we live and travel in hope that we...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c794 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interesting though that may be, it is not relevant to the amendment.
Mark Durkan | 445 c794 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has forgotten that we adopted a clear position on policing. Our position on the P...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 445 c794 (Link to this contribution) I accept that, and I applaud the position that the SDLP took after many years of refusing to support...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c793 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask all hon. Members to direct their comments to the amendments before the Committee.
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 445 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly do that, Mrs. Heal. On amendment No. 10 and the deadline, I welcome what the hon....
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c797 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I have had a good relationship in the time that we have shadowed each other, ...
Laurence Robertson | 445 c797 (Link to this contribution) It would do Conservative Members no good to deny the significant progress in the IMC report, but it ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c797-8 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; I agree 110 per cent. with the hon. Gentleman. I look forward to the day when Sinn Fein ...
Sammy Wilson | 445 c797 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that it is not sufficient merely for the IMC to say that criminality and so...
David Lidington | 445 c808 (Link to this contribution) What has been striking about the debate has been the clear readiness on the part of all three of the...
Alan Reid | 445 c808 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats, too, support the Bill and we are pleased that we have reached Third Reading. ...
Eddie McGrady | 445 c808 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the introduction of the Bill and the fact that we are completing its Third Reading. I hope...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c808-9 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to follow the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady). Yesterday we entered into what I t...
Speaker | 445 c809 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will all hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber please do so as quickly and quietly as poss...
Lembit Opik | 445 c807 (Link to this contribution) The point still stands, despite the sneaky Tory trick to get me confused. I want the Minister to cla...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c807 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) for speaking to both schedule 2 a...
Lembit Opik | 445 c807 (Link to this contribution) I have been thrown into confusion, because I believe that my question relates to schedule 2 after al...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 445 c807 (Link to this contribution) Order. I could not hear what the hon. Gentleman was saying.
Lord Hain | 445 c807 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third Time. I thank right hon. and hon. Members for th...
Lady Hermon | 445 c803 (Link to this contribution) Since I have already put on the record my deep distaste and dislike for, and my disapproval of, givi...
Lembit Opik | 445 c806 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is to do with schedule 3. I am sorry, Mrs. Heal, to detain the Committee, and I than...
Lady Hermon | 445 c806 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Committee will be delighted to know that it is not my intention to move amendment...
Lembit Opik | 445 c806 (Link to this contribution) I have one question: to clarify what the Minister said before about the Assembly’s ability to modify...
Lembit Opik | 445 c803 (Link to this contribution) To save time, can the Minister assure me now that our understanding that the Assembly will be entitl...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c803 (Link to this contribution) To return first to the point made by the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Dodds), such changes wi...
David Lidington | 445 c802 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister can give us a few assurances. I listened carefully to what was said by the ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c802 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr. Reid) said, clause 3 allows the Secretary of State to ma...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c802 (Link to this contribution) Are any of the changes that the Minister might introduce under clause 3 subject to a resolution of e...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c802 (Link to this contribution) In this instance, these are delegated orders for the Secretary of State. As I said, the power applie...
Lembit Opik | 445 c798 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving the answer for which I was looking. The amendment was merel...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 445 c798 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to have discussions with the parties. I would not wish, for my benefit, to put a time sca...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 445 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the Minister’s response. I am grateful for his recognition that the IMC...
Alan Reid | 445 c802 (Link to this contribution) I have serious worries about the sweeping dictatorial powers that the clause seems to give the Secre...
Lord Hain | 445 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot agree to that, because we must not confuse lines of accountability. I am responsible for af...
Sammy Wilson | 445 c743 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for the explanation of that amendment. Does he accept that there is a dis...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 445 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) Why are those the only options available to the political parties in Northern Ireland? There is stil...
Lembit Opik | 445 c755 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman says reminds me that cross-party support was not a big consideration in the ...
Lord Cormack | 445 c774 (Link to this contribution) May I try to pin the Secretary of State down on the RPA? Is he absolutely fixed on the seven new loc...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 445 c769 (Link to this contribution) The SDLP is saying that its member disagreed on constituency grounds—so, it is willing to play with ...
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Northern Ireland Bill 2005-06
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