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Debate on Monday, 12 March 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Falconer of Thoroton. The answering member was Lord Strathclyde.

House of Lords: Reform

Lords debate on motion to take note of the White Paper The House of Lords: Reform (Cm 7027). (1st day). Debate adjourned. (Part 2 of 2).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
690 c475-570 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Viscount Tenby | 690 c529-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was with some diffidence that I put my name down to speak in this debate. My reasons we...
Lord Tomlinson | 690 c527-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may shock my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer to find out that he also has more p...
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Lord MacKenzie of Culkein | 690 c542-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are many strong views in this matter, and we have heard many of them today from all ...
Lord Lucas | 690 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are on our own on this. The noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor spoke tellingly ...
Baroness Cox | 690 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak with extreme temerity and great brevity as the many points I would wish to ma...
Lord Dubs | 690 c538-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have enormous respect for this House, I value many of its conventions and traditions, th...
Earl of Sandwich | 690 c536-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to all noble Lords for coming late to the House today. It was due to illness i...
Lord Plant of Highfield | 690 c531-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I came into this House in 1992, having spent some two or three years prior to the election...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 690 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I regret to find myself in disagreement with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Howe, with w...
Earl of Onslow | 690 c482 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the only reason we are having this discussion about reform of the Lords now is because we ...
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank | 690 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a fascinating and rather perverse argument. I did not notice at the time that all ...
Viscount Bledisloe | 690 c483-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, you will not be surprised to hear that my theme is the real need for a substantial indepen...
Lord Richard | 690 c485-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we seem to have been here before, if I may say so, and on a number of occasions. I am very...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 690 c475-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, listening earlier to the noble Lords, Lord Strathclyde and Lord McNally, talking about the...
Lord Irvine of Lairg | 690 c477-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not spoken for some time, and so to ensure that my contribution is not too great a ...
Lord Wakeham | 690 c479-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has made a powerful speech. We waited for it for a long time an...
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank | 690 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, our text for the debate today and tomorrow is a hotchpotch of a White Paper, the product o...
Lord Hoyle | 690 c507-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am often amazed at this House. I listened with great attention to what is being said, bu...
Lord Mackie of Benshie | 690 c498 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am afraid that I rise to contradict my Front Bench in that I believe in a wholly appoint...
Lord Trimble | 690 c498-500 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it would be easy to say that I entirely agree with many of the comments made by the noble ...
Lord Cunningham of Felling | 690 c494-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had the honour and privilege to be the chairman of the two most recent Joint Committees ...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 690 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the risk of appearing naïve to the point of eccentricity, I propose to take the Governm...
Lord Roper | 690 c504-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confess that I have argued with myself for some time on this subject. I begin by saying ...
Lord Butler of Brockwell | 690 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I served as a member of the royal commission chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Wakeham. We s...
Baroness Whitaker | 690 c500-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was very interested by the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Trimble, and I regret that tim...
Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 690 c502-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, our debates today and tomorrow are taking place ostensibly because the Government’s view i...
Baroness Boothroyd | 690 c491-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some time ago, when the other place debated our future, they had what the Leader of the Co...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 690 c512-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the other place last week was not Philadelphia—the House of Commons did not vouchsafe the ...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 690 c515-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howarth. We used to be colleagues. I...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 690 c517-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, is in for a second shock, because I agree with him too. That...
Lord Palmer | 690 c519-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to be the third resident of Scotland in a row to speak, most especially a...
Duke of Montrose | 690 c523-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, unlike the previous speaker, whose dedication I admire, I have not recently spent many hou...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 690 c525-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a rather neophyte Member of your Lordships' House I have not hitherto spoken in any of ...
Lord Tomlinson | 690 c527 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, consensus is one of the most overworked words in the general debate leading up to the Whit...
Lord St John of Fawsley | 690 c509-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if anyone had doubts about the value of this House, those doubts would have been allayed b...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 690 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suspect that I am not the only Member of the House to have looked up what they said when...
Lord Soley | 690 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I intervene in this debate to focus only on one issue: the issue of the hybrid principle a...
Countess of Mar | 690 c562 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. May I ask the two people on the Front Bench to qui...
Lord Northbrook | 690 c564-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the other place has voted strongly for a fully elected House and less convincingly for an ...
Lord Soley | 690 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the other side of the argument is that this leads us to the idea that the hybrid principle...
Lord Sentamu | 690 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for taking your Lordships’ time, but I am bothered that cash for honours has b...
Viscount Falkland | 690 c566-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my Chief Whip has just told me that, on the face of it, I have an hour and a quarter in wh...
Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 690 c570 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this debate be now adjourned until tomorrow at noon. Moved accordingly...
Lord Reay | 690 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the question I should like to pose is this: should those of us who would like to keep an a...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 690 c558-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is a suspicion that the Government thought that this was a good time to bring forwar...
Lord Whitty | 690 c556-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, 10 years ago I was one of a small band of 45 Labour Peers, to whom my noble friend Lord Gr...
Baroness D'Souza | 690 c554-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the debate has examined all the possible ramifications of the proposed reforms of the Hous...
Lord Sheikh | 690 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in preparing for this debate I was reminded of the old adage, ““If it’s not broken, don’t ...
Lord Grantchester | 690 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it should perhaps be no surprise that the detailed options from the White Paper—which is i...
Baroness Deech | 690 c548-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a relative novice in this House, but I have the temerity to speak because the fresh e...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 690 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, last week’s vote in the Commons is a challenge. I have long supported the idea of a substa...
Lord James of Blackheath | 690 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it was the noble Lord, Lord Steel, who referred to the muddy field in Runnymede as...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 690 c487-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in this debate, which has gone on for a decade or so, certain factors have emerged as comm...
Baroness Quin | 690 c521-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with pleasure that I follow the noble Lord, Lord Palmer, whom I meet not only in thi...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 690 c551-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not long since the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, said that everything that could be said...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 690 c533-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the problems in speaking at this stage of the debate, when so many have already spo...
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