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Ministerial statement on Monday, 14 July 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw.

House of Lords Reform

Statement on House of Lords reform.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
479 c21-36 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Cormack | 479 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) In echoing the wise and perceptive comments of the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Ger...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 479 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Justice Secretary for early sight of his statement and the final White Paper. I commend ...
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Jack Straw | 479 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked me a large number of questions, and I shall try to get through them as rapi...
Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c24 (Link to this contribution) Switch the lights off and most of them would go.
Gerald Kaufman | 479 c28 (Link to this contribution) May I thank my right hon. Friend for his courtesy in sending me an advance copy of the White Paper a...
Jack Straw | 479 c28 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is a very old friend. When he starts his remarks with a compliment I always kno...
Simon Hughes | 479 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) First, may I thank the Secretary of State for the statement and for the work on the White Paper? I p...
Jack Straw | 479 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he has said. I also particularly thank my private office and the...
Jack Straw | 479 c21-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on House of Lords Reform. I am also ...
Richard Shepherd | 479 c29 (Link to this contribution) Before we start writing our election addresses on this White Paper I hope that the House will have a...
Jack Straw | 479 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I set out the basis for the talks in my statement on 19 July last year, and there was general approv...
Lord Spellar | 479 c30 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on resisting the name ““senate””. Frankly, once they are called ...
Jack Straw | 479 c30 (Link to this contribution) I do not happen to think that reforming our second Chamber is a waste of time. What my right hon. Fr...
Jack Straw | 479 c29 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who take seriously the way we vote have to be bound by the consequences of our votes. We...
Jeremy Corbyn | 479 c29 (Link to this contribution) I am relieved to hear from the Secretary of State that brain power was applied in producing this doc...
Speaker | 479 c29 (Link to this contribution) Order. One supplementary is enough.
Jack Straw | 479 c29 (Link to this contribution) I refer my hon. Friend to my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman...
Jack Straw | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) There is experience of the electorate finding voting straightforward, including in the elections for...
Jack Straw | 479 c31 (Link to this contribution) We are not subcontracting it to anybody. We have made considerable progress on Lords reform: the com...
Brian H Donohoe | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that he would welcome views on the system of voting and elections to the Lords bei...
Jack Straw | 479 c31 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's support and, in a sense, I welcome his impatience. As a for...
Adam Price | 479 c31 (Link to this contribution) Church of England bishops may not be men-only in future, but they will be England-only for eternity,...
Jack Straw | 479 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) I invite the hon. Gentleman to look carefully at our argument on non-renewable terms and at the view...
Lord Hain | 479 c31 (Link to this contribution) May I commend my right hon. Friend's thoroughness and progress on this issue but express disappointm...
Lord Maples | 479 c30 (Link to this contribution) As an opponent of an elected second Chamber, as is everyone else who has spoken on this statement, m...
Jack Straw | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point. The closed party list is no part of these...
Jack Straw | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for saying that I had followed the normal conventions. I do not ...
Viscount Hailsham | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) May I support my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) in emphasising the ...
Jack Straw | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) The cost of a reformed Chamber will principally depend on its size. We have suggested somewhere betw...
Anne Main | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) As someone who voted for a wholly appointed or a wholly elected second Chamber—I believe anything in...
Jack Straw | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point, which requires further consideration. I fully understand w...
Jack Straw | 479 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) On the range of skills, if there were an appointed element, some of those who are currently appointe...
Chris Bryant | 479 c35 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly congratulate the Justice Secretary on his reforming zeal, not least because we stil...
Jack Straw | 479 c35 (Link to this contribution) On why the hon. Gentleman voted as he did, he will have to consult himself and also perhaps the man ...
David Hamilton | 479 c35 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the comments made earlier that allowing bishops to be represented in the Lords would be...
Jack Straw | 479 c35 (Link to this contribution) Yes to my hon. Friend's final question, and I am grateful for his support in trying to develop a mom...
Desmond Swayne | 479 c35 (Link to this contribution) I voted for an elected second Chamber, but I am struggling to remember quite why. The Lord Chancello...
Nicholas Winterton | 479 c34 (Link to this contribution) Although I fully support the views expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (M...
Jack Straw | 479 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point and I thank her for her support. It is for precisely the reason ...
Bob Spink | 479 c34 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the previous question, does the right hon. Gentleman accept that a case can be mad...
Fiona Mactaggart | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Justice Secretary on the progress that he has made in bringing forward proposals ...
Jack Straw | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) I have been a strong supporter of women bishops in the Church of England and I look forward to their...
Evan Harris | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) Even the Government accept in the White Paper that there is no place for bishops in a 100 per cent. ...
Jack Straw | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) It has never been the view of any party that such a complex issue ought to be put to a referendum, b...
David Clelland | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) These proposals represent major constitutional change. If proposals for elected mayors, regional ass...
Jack Straw | 479 c33 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's argument. However, it could be said that, as the House of Lords do...
Oliver Heald | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) I join in thanking the Justice Secretary for the courteous way in which he ran the working group. Ho...
Gordon Prentice | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) I broadly support the proposals, but I wonder what the White Paper says about the dual mandate. Is m...
Lord Young of Cookham | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) In last year's vote, was not the status quo the least-favoured option among Conservative Members, wi...
Jack Straw | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's support. He is absolutely right to say that there was a...
Peter Bone | 479 c36 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Lord High Chancellor on not leaking the statement in advance. It is clear that wh...
Peter Soulsby | 479 c34 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the statement and the White Paper. Does the Secretary of State agree, however, t...
Jack Straw | 479 c34 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has a particular view of the Whips— ...He says yes, but I have a slig...
Jack Straw | 479 c32 (Link to this contribution) I think—from recollection—that the White Paper is silent on the dual mandate. I have never seen a pr...
Jack Straw | 479 c34 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. As I said, that is one reason why the proposals for a closed list syste...
Subjects
Bishops Elections House of Lords Eligibility Disqualification Hereditary peers House of Lords composition Electoral systems Pay Powers Public appointments Life peers Reform
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