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House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

505 c970-85 

Session

2009-10

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Christopher Chope | 505 c984 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the number has fallen, but since when?

Baroness Keeley | 505 c984 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman.—[Interruption.]

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Baroness Keeley | 505 c984 (Link to this contribution) Well, I did not actually bring up the number of quangos. There has been a suggestion that there are...

Baroness Keeley | 505 c985 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly happy to let the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire hav...

David Heath | 505 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry about the noises off, because I actually think that this is quite an interesting point. I...

Shailesh Vara | 505 c979 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a valid and serious point that will need to be considered. I very hope mu...

Christopher Chope | 505 c982 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) that the explanatory note is, indeed...

David Heath | 505 c981-2 (Link to this contribution) Ideally, the information would go to both bodies, because the candidate deals with the bureaucracy o...

Christopher Chope | 505 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Looking through the explanatory notes at the list of quangos ...

David Heath | 505 c982 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the hon. Gentleman might agree that for every quango there should be a regular test o...

Shailesh Vara | 505 c980 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the legislation concerning IPSA specifically exempts members of IPSA, so there will n...

David Heath | 505 c980 (Link to this contribution) I also have no problem supporting the motion. It is a sensible bit of housekeeping that we have to d...

Greg Knight | 505 c981 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, but would it not be better to supply the information ...

David Heath | 505 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) The schedule represents the consolidation of the list, which includes those who have been exempted i...

Shailesh Vara | 505 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) As we have heard, the motion updates the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, and we on this ...

Greg Knight | 505 c979 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that there is a case for going further than we are going to...

Baroness Keeley | 505 c978 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point. I shall check that, but I believe that the amount is revised only when we foll...

Baroness Keeley | 505 c970 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 be amended as follo...

Baroness Keeley | 505 c984 (Link to this contribution) We are not meant to be debating quangos per se, but—

Greg Knight | 505 c978 (Link to this contribution) I quite understand why the Government wish to raise the de minimis threshold, but if they want to ra...

Peter Bone | 505 c984 (Link to this contribution) You brought it up.

Baroness Keeley | 505 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) It is important to emphasise that the 1975 Act is concerned with maintaining the independence of thi...

Subjects

House of Commons Disqualification Mental illness Pay Members Non-departmental public bodies Offices of profit under the Crown

Legislation

House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

Link

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