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Constitutional Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

716 c1556-601 

Session

2009-10

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Carswell | 716 c1565-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have had the privilege of being a Member of this House for a little over six years, but ...

Lord Butler of Brockwell | 716 c1599 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister explain to a rookie what the difference is between the House authorities...

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Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 716 c1598 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister suggesting that there will be an opportunity for another place to vote on these 21 p...

Lord Bach | 716 c1598-9 (Link to this contribution) I have gained as much information as I can while sitting here on what was said this morning. I do no...

Lord Bach | 716 c1600 (Link to this contribution) I did not say that.

Lord Tyler | 716 c1600-1 (Link to this contribution) Well, my Lords, that puts us in a very difficult position, because given what has been said on all s...

Lord Bach | 716 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) As I said that, I realised that I had probably made a mistake that the noble Lord might well come ba...

Lord Tyler | 716 c1600 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot attempt to respond to such an interesting and wide-ranging debate in just a few m...

Lord Bach | 716 c1596-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, on securing this debate and leading us into a f...

Lord Rennard | 716 c1586-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in today’s wide-ranging debate, I wish to concentrate on electoral reform in the context o...

Lord Luce | 716 c1588-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a good time for us to be taking stock of political and constitutional reform. Ther...

Lord Grocott | 716 c1589-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I really am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for introducing this debate. It is bec...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 716 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remember reading one of the wonderful short essays by Francis Bacon when I was a student...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 716 c1592-4 (Link to this contribution) Let us say three years. We have the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill limping through the Co...

Lord Tyler | 716 c1556-60 (Link to this contribution) In moving this Motion, I anticipate that the gratifying number and distinction of those who are to c...

Lord Tyler | 716 c1556 (Link to this contribution) Asked by To call attention to the case for further political and constitutional reform; and to mov...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 716 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I declare an interest. I am obviously interested in democracy—I have 15 electoral c...

Lord Norton of Louth | 716 c1561-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my former colleague at the University of Hull, the noble Lord, ...

Lord Parekh | 716 c1560-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for securing this debate and for introducing it with c...

Baroness Murphy | 716 c1583-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am the only woman to speak in this debate, so it is perhaps appropriate that I take the ...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 716 c1583 (Link to this contribution) The House has resolved that this debate should last three hours. We started the debate with a nine-m...

Lord Alderdice | 716 c1581-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the only other Peer from Northern Ireland to be speaking in today’s debate, I add my we...

Lord Plant of Highfield | 716 c1580-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to use the short time available to argue in favour of supporting a referendum, or s...

Lord Butler of Brockwell | 716 c1578-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, your Lordships’ interest in this subject is shown by the number of speakers today, so we h...

Lord Rooker | 716 c1586 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the situation will be the same: huge party majorities in the Commons based on a minority o...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 716 c1586 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it will not be offered.

Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 716 c1568-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, although I once initiated a debate in this House on the disestablishment of the Church of ...

Lord Harrison | 716 c1567-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is my great privilege to congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Carswell, on his...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 716 c1569-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not believe that the cure for the ills of our democracy is more democracy. Indeed, on...

Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 716 c1564-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for initiating this debate and for his contin...

Lord Morgan | 716 c1574-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other speakers, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Carswell, on his maid...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 716 c1572-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble and learned Lord, Lord Carswell, on a...

Lord Greaves | 716 c1576-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Morgan, but I thought that he...

Lord Rooker | 716 c1585-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a very good example of what the noble Baroness has just been talking about. It...

Lord Luke | 716 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like others who have taken part in this important debate, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyl...

Subjects

Central government Conduct Devolution British constitution Finance Elections House of Lords House of Commons Expenditure Electoral systems Members Political parties Parliamentary procedure Politics and government Parliament Reform

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