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Debate on Wednesday, 25 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Harman. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.

Home Affairs

Debate on a motion that notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees), Mr John Denham be discharged from the Home Affairs Committee and Keith Vaz be added. Agreed on division (303 to 85)

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
463 c916-38 
Session
2006-07
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Home Affairs Committee
Thursday, 11 October 2007
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 463 c924 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing that out, and he is right: his point further punctures ...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 463 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) A large part of the burden of the Leader of the House’s argument is that it is essential that the Ho...
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Simon Burns | 463 c924 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that part of the Leader of the House’s argument is that it is impor...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c922 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that this is entirely a matter of timing. I suggest to the right hon. and learned Lady...
Baroness Harman | 463 c922 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that report. I am also aware of the important work done by my right hon. Friend the Me...
John Bercow | 463 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will not be surprised to know that today, as quite often, I find myself in t...
Baroness Harman | 463 c922 (Link to this contribution) It sounds to me as if the hon. Gentleman is saying that if I proposed a different name to the House,...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 463 c923 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the right hon. and learned Lady that her defence of the process that the Government...
Baroness Harman | 463 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) I understood that to be the question to me, and I undertook to answer it in writing. We had a helpfu...
John Bercow | 463 c921 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. and learned Lady did not, I am grateful. The Secretary of State for Innovation, Un...
John Bercow | 463 c921 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady interpreted the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Wort...
Baroness Harman | 463 c921 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that it is not the case that no work is undertaken through the Select C...
Baroness Harman | 463 c921 (Link to this contribution) The Home Affairs Committee’s meetings are a matter for the Committee. It is not a matter for me, as ...
Baroness Harman | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) I will, although it is for the second time.
Viscount Hailsham | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady please reply to the question put by my right hon. Friend the Me...
Baroness Harman | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I was not in a position to put forward the name to the Committee of Selection, and I acce...
Lord Young of Cookham | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. and learned Lady give the House any precedent for what she is doing this afternoo...
Viscount Hailsham | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Baroness Harman | 463 c920 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to take the view of the House by listening solely to interventions. Normally, the Ho...
Baroness Harman | 463 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to get back to the right hon. Gentleman on that, but the issue arises from the timing. ...
Simon Burns | 463 c920 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady please inform the House what specific plans the Home Affairs Co...
Baroness Harman | 463 c920 (Link to this contribution) The motion will enable us to replace a member of the Select Committee who has become a member of the...
Simon Hughes | 463 c920 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House is not to blame for the past history of this matter, and I am conscious that...
Speaker | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) Order. When the Leader of the House gives way, may I ask her to say to whom? On this occasion, I thi...
Richard Shepherd | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
David Winnick | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to intervene in the present controversy, save to make it clear that I have not been pa...
Peter Bottomley | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House has heard the views expressed in this Chamber, and is now able to reconsider...
Richard Shepherd | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful— ... Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. To the casual viewer, the motion looks like t...
Baroness Harman | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman thinks that the motion is outrageous and an abuse, but we are sim...
Baroness Harman | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is possible that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities an...
Simon Hughes | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) My recollection is that all the Ministers were appointed quickly, but I have been told that the Home...
Baroness Harman | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) If we had put forward that proposition, other hon. Members might have asked why the Committee had an...
Lord Young of Cookham | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House may know that the Committee of Selection was provisionally scheduled to meet...
John Bercow | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Lord Young of Cookham | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Viscount Hailsham | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Baroness Harman | 463 c916 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select ...
Richard Shepherd | 463 c916 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady said that it is essential that the Home Affairs Committee carry out ...
Baroness Harman | 463 c916 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can respond by setting out the chronology. On 27 June the Prime Minister became Prime Mini...
Viscount Hailsham | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) At the very least, would the right hon. and learned Lady agree that we knew the pool last week? The ...
Baroness Harman | 463 c916 (Link to this contribution) I hope to give the reason in what will be a short speech. As I was saying, it is important that the...
John Bercow | 463 c916 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand the thrust of the argument that the Leader of the House is developing, but if ...
Baroness Harman | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the thrust of interventions from hon. Members that it would have been much better if we...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Leader of the House for being generous in giving way. She is making several pre...
Speaker | 463 c917 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Leader of the House must be allowed to respond to one intervention before she takes anoth...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 463 c924 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making an extremely pertinent point that goes to the very heart ...
Simon Hughes | 463 c925-7 (Link to this contribution) What started as a squall is becoming a storm. It is important for the Leader of the House to realise...
David Heath | 463 c927 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend conceive of any business that the Committee might wish to contract between now an...
Lord Young of Cookham | 463 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) made a powerful speech, to which I...
Simon Hughes | 463 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes that point well and strongly. The Committee is served by very good officers, wh...
John Bercow | 463 c931 (Link to this contribution) Given that we have been advised by my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire that the...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c929-31 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young), ...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that we have to accept at face value what the Leader of House has told us—namely that on M...
Richard Shepherd | 463 c932-3 (Link to this contribution) When the Leader of the House reads her speech on this matter, I think that she will find it rather d...
Rosemary McKenna | 463 c933 (Link to this contribution) I would like to put on record the fact that the Committee of Selection offered to meet on Monday nig...
Baroness Harman | 463 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) What I perhaps should say is that my right hon. Friend has been voted by this House on to the Consti...
John Bercow | 463 c935 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Baroness Harman | 463 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) In response to the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd), I should say that the Moderni...
Richard Bacon | 463 c934 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House said that the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) will be move...
Baroness Harman | 463 c935 (Link to this contribution) No. I have given way a number of times. I come to be Leader of the House at a time when there are a...
Lord Robathan | 463 c922 (Link to this contribution) Has the right hon. and learned Lady read the Standards and Privileges Committee’s fifth report of 20...
Baroness Harman | 463 c923 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that comment. I will conclude my remarks by saying that I accept that...
Simon Burns | 463 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady now answer my original question? When will the Home Affairs Com...
Baroness Harman | 463 c919 (Link to this contribution) I will have to find out whether the acting Chairman is drawing his additional salary.
Baroness Harman | 463 c918 (Link to this contribution) I should like to thank the right hon. Gentleman, who is Chair of the Committee of Selection, and the...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 463 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, but I think that a perusal of Hansard tomorrow will show that the Leader of the House re...
Baroness Harman | 463 c924 (Link to this contribution) That is because my right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham) was the Chair o...
Subjects
Public appointments Members Politics and government Parliamentary privilege Select committees Home Affairs Committee Vaz, Keith Denham, John
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