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Queen's speech debate on Monday, 23 November 2009, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bach. The answering member was Baroness Neville-Jones.

Queen’s Speech

Lords debate on Queen's speech (third day) on home, legal and constitutional affairs.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
715 c138-51,160-246 
Session
2009-10
Department
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Bishop of Bristol | 715 c171-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with a real sense of privilege that I stand among you today, although I confess that...
Baroness O'Loan | 715 c176-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to speak for the first time in your Lordships’ House and to con...
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Lord Thomas of Gresford | 715 c148-51 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has my point exactly. The Government also present us with the Children, Schools and ...
Lord Bach | 715 c138-43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to be opening today’s debate on Her Majesty’s gracious Speech, not...
Baroness Neville-Jones | 715 c143-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to reply to the Motion on the humble Address. Earlier this year, the nob...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 715 c148 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to say something about the proper sphere of the law. The law is not about governmen...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 715 c148 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord makes a very good point. Does he consider that the Government are being unduly modest...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 715 c138 (Link to this contribution) Moved on Wednesday 18 November by That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty as follows: ...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 715 c216-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to speak briefly on the Bribery Bill. I support it strongly in principle but it rai...
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 715 c218-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is once again reference in the gracious Speech to penal matters, and on this occasio...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 715 c220-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as we know, the gracious Speech refers to a draft Bill on reform of the House of Lords, bu...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 715 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a sheer privilege and pleasure to follow the noble and right reverend Lord, who enli...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 715 c209-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to contribute to the debate on the gracious Speech. I should like ...
Lord Higgins | 715 c211-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the general tone of this debate suggests that in what we must hope is the aftermath of the...
Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 715 c213-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the Minister for my absence at the start of the debate. I was plunged into ...
Lord Jones | 715 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to follow my noble friend Lord Livsey of Talgarth, who knows a great deal about ...
Lord Rooker | 715 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, without any conspiratorial intent, I, too, will address the constitutional aspects of refo...
Bishop of Leicester | 715 c161-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in this briefest of parliamentary Sessions, among the most important things on which we ne...
Lord Woolf | 715 c160-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I return to the debate on the Address on home, legal and constitutional affairs. I begin b...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 715 c165-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow what the noble Lord has just said because it fits in with...
Lord Rooker | 715 c164-5 (Link to this contribution) We should not require reasons to be given—that would be revolutionary—but simply require a certifica...
Lord Tyler | 715 c167-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am particularly grateful to be here to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, and the no...
Lord Butler of Brockwell | 715 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall follow the road down which the House has been led by the right reverend Prelate th...
Lord Trimble | 715 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, despite the final comment of the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, I agree with the primary points...
Lord Grocott | 715 c173-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a real pleasure to be the first speaker after the maiden contribution of the right r...
Baroness Harris of Richmond | 715 c178-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to congratulate on behalf of the whole House the noble Baron...
Lord Patten | 715 c183-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not follow the right reverend Prelate, my West Country neighbour, very far down th...
Bishop of Exeter | 715 c181-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after these large constitutional issues, I turn to a series of small legal and administrat...
Lord Dholakia | 715 c185-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the last gracious Speech before we head for the general election next year. It is ...
Lord Patten | 715 c185 (Link to this contribution) I love being interrupted by my noble friend Lord Ferrers and will give way to him at any time to rec...
Earl Ferrers | 715 c185 (Link to this contribution) The only reason why I dare to interrupt my noble friend is that I once called the noble Lord gallant...
Lord Patten | 715 c185 (Link to this contribution) Did I make a mistake? I am so sorry if I have upset my noble friend.
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | 715 c192-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the provisions of the gracious Speech dealing with home and constitutional affai...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 715 c192 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the noble Lord for having had relatively dull teenage years. However, I hope that ...
Lord Patten | 715 c192 (Link to this contribution) I certainly never did anything like that. That was an outrageous slur.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 715 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, two very important events will take place during the period that the gracious Speech cover...
Lord Tunnicliffe | 715 c190 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the seven-minute limit on speeches is, of course, purely advisory. However, at the moment ...
Lord Mawson | 715 c188-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I still feel a bit of a new boy in your Lordships’ House. As an entrepreneur and practical...
Lord Laird | 715 c198-200 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am conscious that since the devolution of power to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2007...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 715 c196-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in his opening remarks the noble Lord, Lord Bach, made much of the Government’s emphasis o...
Earl Ferrers | 715 c202-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I found the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Morgan, fascinating and indeed I would like to ...
Lord Morgan | 715 c200-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Sherlock Holmes famously referred to the dog that did not bark. The dog that did not give ...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 715 c194-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the "Today" programme of 12 November, John Humphrys rather contemptuously said: "Who on...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 715 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) That could not occur according to the wording in my Bill, but I agree that the wording in the Govern...
Lord Cobbold | 715 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I intervene briefly in this debate to join noble Lords who have spoken in favour of the re...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 715 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very happy to share something with the noble Earl, Lord Ferrers; namely, a wheelie bi...
Earl Ferrers | 715 c208 (Link to this contribution) Does that mean that the noble Lord, Lord Mandelson, could retire and go back into the House of Commo...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 715 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Cobbold, I propose to deal with only one topic: the part of the ...
Lord Patten | 715 c241 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister confirm whether the OCS will be fully operational by March 2010?
Lord West of Spithead | 715 c241-6 (Link to this contribution) The Office of Cyber Security—I shall try not to use acronyms—is fully manned. I would probably like ...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 715 c227-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also share the disappointment of my noble friend Lord Rennard that there is no mention o...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 715 c225-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I break with my personal tradition by not speaking on European affairs in the debate on th...
Lord Rennard | 715 c223-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in 1964, there was a change of Government after the Conservatives had been in power for 13...
Lord Henley | 715 c234-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by echoing the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, in offering my congratula...
Lord West of Spithead | 715 c237-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging and knowledgeable debate. We have gone from nuclear prolifera...
Baroness Hamwee | 715 c230-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak in such a wide-ranging debate—I shall not attempt to summarise i...
Baroness Manningham-Buller | 715 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I congratulate my noble friend Lady O’Loan on her maiden speech. I worked with her ...
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Disciplinary proceedings Children Databases Anti-social behaviour Corruption Airguns Civil service DNA Immobilisation of vehicles House of Lords Judiciary Domestic abuse Hereditary peers Insurance Injunctions Organised crime Prisons Public expenditure Mobile phones Parliamentary scrutiny Public service Peers Treaties Young people Reform Anti-social behaviour orders Parenting orders
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