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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 3 July 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Ashton of Upholland.


Constitution

Lords statement on constitutional reform.


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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
693 c917-35 
Session
2006-07
Department
Lord President of the Council
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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The governance of Britain.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
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House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c930 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the comments of the right reverend Prelate and for his work with the Chu...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 693 c930 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to sound unduly churlish, particularly in the light of the magnificent way i...
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Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham | 693 c929-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are most grateful to the Leader of the House for repeating the Prime Minister’s histori...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the welcome. I agree that it is as if thunder has indeed arrived. I am a...
Lord Strathclyde | 693 c923-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by thanking the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for repeating this importan...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c917-23 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat a Statement made in another place by my rig...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the comments of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Howe, about the way in ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c931 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in considering the future of your Lordships’ House it will be important to look at the rec...
Viscount Bledisloe | 693 c931 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I seek two assurances from the noble Baroness, the very welcome Leader of the House. First...
Lord Morgan | 693 c931 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can assure my noble friend that the Statement will be greeted with enormous enthusiasm b...
Baroness Crawley | 693 c931 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it is the turn of the government Benches and then the Liberal Democrats.
Baroness Park of Monmouth | 693 c932 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I ask the Minister for reassurance on an important point. In the discussion on the Intelli...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c932 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, who has a long and distinguishe...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 693 c932 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by expressing great satisfaction that the Prime Minister has shown such openness a...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c932 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the latter question, there is nothing significant in that; we have been very clear abou...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c933 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness immediately that only those issues that it is appropriate to...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c933 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, to my knowledge there is absolutely no intention of so doing. We have described a discussi...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 693 c933 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Statement refers to the House of Commons having a greater role in the selection of pub...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c933 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not entirely certain whether it is accurate to say that we are the only country, but ...
Baroness Whitaker | 693 c933 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend, particularly on the inclusion of the proposal to limit the...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c934 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord speaks with great passion. There is no question within the Statement that I...
Lord Waddington | 693 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when a Statement is made before the Recess about elections to this House, I beg the Leader...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have always been a long believer that in your Lordships’ House we have people of talent ...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 693 c934 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Lord President referred to my new role as independent advisor to the Secretary of Stat...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 693 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, yesterday I welcomed the noble Baroness, Lady Ashton, to her new post but I did not then k...
Lord McNally | 693 c925-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Lord President for repeating the Statement and for the Green Paper, which was ...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 693 c929 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Williamson, for his comments and questions. Both are...
Subjects
Codes of practice Accountability Demonstrations Candidates Armed conflict Central government Conduct Devolution Annual reports Civil service Attorney General Church of England Bishops Citizenship British constitution Bill of Rights Women Elections Intelligence services House of Lords Government departments Judges Financial Services Authority Intelligence and Security Committee Dissolution HM Inspectorate of Prisons Local government NHS Prime ministers National security Powers Prosecutions Public appointments Parliament Square Political parties Parliamentary scrutiny Public participation Ministers Parliament Passports Prerogative of mercy Monetary Policy Committee Recall of parliament Statistics Treaties Young people Reform Local Government Ombudsman Commissioner for Public Appointments Government bills Civil Service Commission West Lothian question UK Statistics Authority English votes for English laws
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