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Debate on Thursday, 4 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Harman. The answering member was Lord Young of Cookham.

Chair (Terminology)

Debate on motions to amend standing orders relating to chair (terminology), agreed on division (206 to 90); Election of committee chairs, amendment agreed to on division (279 to 31), motion agreed on question, with amendment; Resignation or removal of chairs of select committees (resolved); Election of Members of select committees, motion agreed on question, with amendment; Backbench business committee, motion agreed on question, with amendments; Election of the deputy Speakers, (Resolved).

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
506 c1062-100 
Session
2009-10
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Young of Cookham | 506 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the Back-Bench committee should allocate the subjects for topical debates. I conceded t...
Evan Harris | 506 c1069 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Wright Committee, I would like to explain our approach to the right hon. Gentlema...
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Baroness Harman | 506 c1066 (Link to this contribution) No. I will also be supporting amendment (a) to motion 7, which is in the name of my hon. Friend the...
Evan Harris | 506 c1066 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Baroness Harman | 506 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris), among others, will get to speak. The hon...
Lord Young of Cookham | 506 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) There are 69 minutes left for this debate, so I propose to follow the right hon. and learned Lady's ...
Bernard Jenkin | 506 c1068 (Link to this contribution) All the advice that I have taken from the Clerks suggests that, because the Procedure Committee itse...
Lord Young of Cookham | 506 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) As I said, it is a free vote, but I make the point that this was not an original recommendation of t...
Edward Leigh | 506 c1074 (Link to this contribution) When a Deputy Speaker, after serving for one Parliament, wishes to stand again, how will they be ele...
Greg Knight | 506 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me say, I hope for the last time today, that I deplore the decision made by the Leader of the Ho...
Baroness Beckett | 506 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I was not able to take part in last week's debate about these issues, but I have rea...
David Heath | 506 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) I listened to what the Leader of the House had to say about her own tactic in providing time for oth...
Greg Knight | 506 c1071 (Link to this contribution) The Procedure Committee considered that very point, and we are of the view that the matter should be...
Baroness Beckett | 506 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am going to finish now. I have great regard for this House, and I do not wish it to bring itself ...
David Heath | 506 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Lady with care and respect. She says that this is an untried system...
Baroness Beckett | 506 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I think that perhaps he was not listening with sufficient care t...
Elfyn Llwyd | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I am almost there, listening to the right hon. and learned Lady. What I would like to know is how sh...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend, who has done a lot of work on these issues, takes that view, he does not need to ...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman if he still wants to ask a question and has not lost the will ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 506 c1063 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give way?
Baroness Harman | 506 c1063 (Link to this contribution) This is House business; the motions are on the Order Paper, there is no whipping and there is no ins...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) I have realised that my "no giving way" policy is not going to cut the mustard, so I will just finis...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's amendment takes a particular track and sets a particular percentage level, an...
Alan Williams | 506 c1065 (Link to this contribution) It is because those very factors need to be taken into account that the amendment is phrased in a wa...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1065 (Link to this contribution) We have brought forward the proposals that were made by the Wright Committee. If the hon. Gentleman ...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) That question shows why we have further details to work out on that, and I agree that it is an impor...
William Cash | 506 c1065 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House agree that there are a number of Committees—not just the Public Account...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants to make an intervention that suggests the answer to this, he may do so.
Elfyn Llwyd | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) No, no. What I would like to ask the right hon. and learned Lady is how she will accommodate the int...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) There is no proposal at the moment for changing the arrangements in relation to the Procedure Commit...
Tony Wright | 506 c1082 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will not, because I am going to end my speech very soon. We ...
Frank Dobson | 506 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I approve of the idea of electing the Chairs of Select Committees, but how can we assert responsibil...
Martin Salter | 506 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) I made my maiden speech in this House on the subject of parliamentary reform and the overbearing pow...
Speaker | 506 c1084 (Link to this contribution) There are fewer than seven minutes remaining, so if more than one Member is to contribute, we shall ...
Lord Tyrie | 506 c1085 (Link to this contribution) First, may I express regret that we have not been given an opportunity to vote on all the recommenda...
Natascha Engel | 506 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Do I have one minute left in which to speak, Mr. Speaker? I shall try to squeeze into it the many th...
Speaker | 506 c1086 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry that the hon. Lady did not get so much as a minute in which to speak, but we have ...
Speaker | 506 c1090 (Link to this contribution) As I have announced to the House, the Division is off. I think that there was some confusion, althou...
Michael Meacher | 506 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The manner in which it is drafted leads one to suspect that it would result in less time. However, t...
Mark Todd | 506 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) I will be very brief. If we looked at constitutional definitions of the purpose of being an MP, we w...
Lord Cormack | 506 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief. I gladly assented to all the resolutions that the House passed last week with...
Michael Meacher | 506 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) Following the main debate on House of Commons reform 10 days ago, which was widely regarded as a ver...
Greg Knight | 506 c1074 (Link to this contribution) It is our recommendation that the Deputy Speakers should be elected afresh at the beginning of every...
Michael Meacher | 506 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) There are so many others wishing to speak. I would gladly give way normally, but there simply is not...
William Cash | 506 c1075 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Todd | 506 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says no loudly behind me, and I can see why she might say that. It is certainly true,...
Lord Tyrie | 506 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tony Wright | 506 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) I will be extremely brief, as I spoke at some length last Monday. Let me say to my friend—he is my f...
Evan Harris | 506 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asks an important question about the House business committee, which is covered b...
William Cash | 506 c1080 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Derby, South (Margaret Beckett) talked about wrangling over this extremely...
Evan Harris | 506 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I trust the right hon. Gentleman would have no objection to an elected Committee of the House doing ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 506 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Someone will have to change the Standing Orders. Someone will have to draft the provision—I do not m...
Evan Harris | 506 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to amendment (c) to the motion on the Back-Bench business committee and to put some ...
Baroness Harman | 506 c1062 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"(1) That this House approves recommendation 3 of the First Report of the Select Commi...
Speaker | 506 c1062 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss motions 4 to 8.
Baroness Harman | 506 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) The House now has an opportunity to consider and vote on the recommendations of the Select Committee...
Evan Harris | 506 c1066 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way on that point?
Christopher Chope | 506 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly in support of the two amendments tabled in my name and that of many other righ...
Peter Soulsby | 506 c1064 (Link to this contribution) On the election of the members and the Chair of the Procedure Committee, does the Leader of the Hous...
David Heath | 506 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that. If we agree to that new role for the Chairman of...
Tony Wright | 506 c1082-3 (Link to this contribution) I have never considered the argument for a secret ballot to be a craven argument; I have always cons...
Lord Young of Cookham | 506 c1076 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman does the arithmetic, he will find that it is not less than today. I said...
Subjects
Committees Elections House of Commons Public appointments Parliamentary procedure Reform Terminology Select committees Backbenchers Standing orders Private members' time Deputy Speakers Order of business Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons
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