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Democracy: POWER Inquiry

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

683 c330-98 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 683 c339-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I ask the indulgence of your Lordships’ House as I speak here for the first time. In parti...

Lord Lee of Trafford | 683 c344-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for well-publicised reasons my intake has endured a long wait for our peerages to be confe...

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Lord Trimble | 683 c333 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for allowing me to intervene. Perhaps I may say that as someone wit...

Lord Goodhart | 683 c330-3 (Link to this contribution) rose to call attention to the report of the Power inquiry Power to the People; and to move for Paper...

Lord Gould of Brookwood | 683 c335-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, and the Power inquiry team o...

Lord Goodhart | 683 c333-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the noble Lord’s intervention. The single transferable vote is, I believe, a ver...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 683 c383-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, and the Power inquiry deserves no less. I think we all ...

Lord Tyler | 683 c379-83 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a fascinating and very thoughtful debate, not least in the maiden contributi...

Lord Greaves | 683 c375-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws. It is to the cr...

Lord Tyler | 683 c383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has made his point very effectively. In his speech to the Power conference...

Lord Norton of Louth | 683 c383 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the noble Lord like to tell us the percentage for professors, which I believe is abo...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 683 c366 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I was Sure Start Minister, we transferred powers and made sure that local government ...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 683 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) Well, my Lords, we beg to differ. But that is how I experienced it as a local councillor. I went to ...

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 683 c367-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will focus today on how we pay for our politics in Britain and on the excellent Power in...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 683 c370-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, for providing the opportunity to discuss t...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 683 c366 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it certainly was not entirely run though local government when I was a local councillor. I...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 683 c366 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a Sure Start Minister, I can say that Sure Start is entirely run through local governme...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 683 c364-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to support the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, in calling attention to the Power...

Lord Norton of Louth | 683 c361-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suspect that I am going to demonstrate some of the Lincolnshire qualities to which my no...

Baroness D'Souza | 683 c359-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the report of the Power inquiry chastises the media for having,"““significant unelected in...

Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 683 c356-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me very great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Smith Clifton, who has inje...

Lord Smith of Clifton | 683 c352-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Goodhart on initiating this timely debate on the repor...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 683 c346-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a delight for me to follow the elegant and entertaining maiden speech of my old frie...

Lord Goodhart | 683 c398 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the debate has lasted for four hours and 10 minutes and we have had a very full and thorou...

Baroness Wilcox | 683 c388-91 (Link to this contribution) Yes. We have been delighted to hear two fine maiden speeches today. We were all interested to hear t...

Baroness Wilcox | 683 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the members of the Power inquiry commission, particularly the noble Barones...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 683 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) Noble Lords took their time there! I am sure my noble friend will not mind me saying that. Since gov...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 683 c395-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope they teach the noble Lord well. We were discussing the book by Tip O’Neill, the fo...

Lord Greaves | 683 c395 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have daughters who are just about young enough, so I understand that.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 683 c391-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an extraordinarily good debate. This morning I thought, ““Oh, my goodness, I...

Lord Dean of Harptree | 683 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the Power inquiry that people are interested in political issues in spite of ...

Bishop of Portsmouth | 683 c341-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a singular pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, in his maiden speech. He ...

Subjects

Central government Democracy Finance Elections House of Lords House of Commons House of Lords composition Electoral systems Local government Powers Political parties Politics and government Public participation Proportional representation Voting behaviour Young people Reform Voting rights Power Commission

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