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Debate on select committee report on Tuesday, 2 May 2006, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Brabazon of Tara.

Speakership: House Committee Report

Lords debate on motion to agree the first report from the House Select Committee (HL 152 2005-06). Agreed to on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
681 c397-417 
Session
2005-06
Department
Chairman of Committees (HL)
House Committee
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
House Committee (HL) first report.
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 681 c414 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my point was that the noble Lord said that the reason that this was reviewable was because...
Lord Barnett | 681 c414-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House Committee is not unique in that sense. It put forward recommendations, but the H...
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Earl Ferrers | 681 c401-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to my amendment. Like the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, I think the salary recom...
Lord Trefgarne | 681 c400-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel very much the same as the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, at least in principle. I had th...
Lord Barnett | 681 c398-400 (Link to this contribution) rose to move, as an amendment to the Motion, at end to insert ““except that the annual salary of the...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 681 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. This report concerns the...
Lord McNally | 681 c411 (Link to this contribution) We are perfectly entitled to do so. Well we are putting two Whips in. Two Whips will spontaneously g...
Lord Rees-Mogg | 681 c411 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the noble Lord explain something to us which I find quite obscure? Although it is an ...
Lord Lucas | 681 c408 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Baroness brings the debate to a close, I wish to make a very short statem...
Baroness Amos | 681 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened very carefully to the arguments of those who have proposed amendments this...
Lord Strathclyde | 681 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the latest in a series of debates on the role of the Lord Speaker and it is the la...
Lord McNally | 681 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, has revealed, the two strongest votes in the House Co...
Viscount Tenby | 681 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am one of those noble Lords who has supported the Motion. Anybody would think that the H...
Lord Lucas | 681 c408 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is not an old battle—
Earl of Onslow | 681 c407 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, recently there have been rumours that people have been waving cheques about for large amou...
Lord Dean of Harptree | 681 c405-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a former Deputy Speaker in both Houses. Now that the House has de...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 681 c406-7 (Link to this contribution) : My Lords, essentially we have heard two arguments about why we should reject the House Committee’s...
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy | 681 c404-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, two small matters have not yet been mentioned. One is that if the Lord Speaker is going to...
Lord Marsh | 681 c405 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the specific things about this House is its unbelievable ability to find difficulty...
Viscount Bledisloe | 681 c403-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one good answer to that question is: because the noble Earl, Lord Onslow, wants to be ther...
Baroness Trumpington | 681 c404 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the decision has been taken. We have had to live without the hereditary Peers and the Hous...
Viscount Bledisloe | 681 c403 (Link to this contribution) : My Lords, the speeches we have heard—particularly that of the noble Earl, Lord Ferrers—have made i...
Lord Waddington | 681 c403 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after that emollient speech I do not want to sound too abrasive, but we should not forget ...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 681 c413 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is what I said. I did not want the House to get the impression that he did claim that...
Lord Barnett | 681 c413-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord, Lord McNally, is giving leadership to his troops, as he put it, I feel ...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 681 c413 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the noble Lord perhaps thinking of 1984, when the House amended a proposal put forward ...
Earl Ferrers | 681 c413 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I said that what matters is the amount that the noble and learned Lord was entitled to cla...
Lord Barnett | 681 c414 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was the impression that I had, and may have been the impression that the House had, s...
Lord McNally | 681 c411 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be very clear; we have no Whip on this at all. But I have served on the House Comm...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 681 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that we can now reach a conclusion in this debate. It has been a good debate, but I...
Lord Trefgarne | 681 c413 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am advised that we once rejected one of the recommendations of the SSRB. I will write to...
Lord McNally | 681 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) If they are needed, my Lords—after this show of eloquence, the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, might withd...
Earl Ferrers | 681 c412 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the Chairman of Committees speaks, my noble friend Lord Strathclyde asked me a spec...
Subjects
Allowances Pay Workplace pensions Senior Salaries Review Body Lord Speaker
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