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Debate on select committee report on Wednesday, 10 March 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Renton of Mount Harry. The answering member was Lord Brabazon of Tara.


Parliament and the Public: Information Committee Report

Lords debate on motion to consider the first report of the Information Committee on Are the Lords Listening? Creating Connections between People and Parliament (HL 138 2008-09). Agreed to on question. (Debated with Lords motion to consider the second report of the Information Committee on Annual Report 2008-09 of the House of Lords Information Committee (HL 179 2008-09)).


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
718 c93-134GC 
Session
2009-10
Department
Chairman of Committees (HL)
Information Committee (HL)
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Related items
Information Committee: Annual Report
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Bates | 718 c123GC (Link to this contribution) We are debating the committee’s reports, which talk about how we can improve the way in which Parlia...
Lord Puttnam | 718 c128GC (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I might ask the Minister for help on one issue. In the 2005 report from the committee on whi...
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Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 718 c133-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that olleagues will agree that we have had an excellent and interesting debate that...
Baroness Crawley | 718 c123-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, and the Information Committee for the ...
Lord Haskel | 718 c123GC (Link to this contribution) Are we debating the committee’s reports or his party’s manifesto?
Lord Tyler | 718 c116-20GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Earl, Lord Errol, has left, because my first confession is that ...
Lord Soley | 718 c113-6GC (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Renton, for the remarkable leadership that he has shown in ...
Earl of Erroll | 718 c111-3GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, for giving us the chance to debate the...
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 718 c105-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very pleased to be taking part in the debate. I will concentrate on education and out...
Lord Puttnam | 718 c96-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to thank the noble Lord, Lord Renton, for introducing the debate in way that ...
Baroness Crawley | 718 c128GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will know that Cabinet Committees are quite significant in that they are the politica...
Lord Tyler | 718 c128GC (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Baroness tell us when this gathering of the great and the good last met, what it has d...
Lord Bates | 718 c129GC (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, was being too precise in expecting the Minister to be able to sa...
Lord Bates | 718 c123GC (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted for them to be considered by the Information Committee, if the committee wished...
Baroness Deech | 718 c103-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by offering my deepest apologies for a possible future breach of a rule of procedu...
Lord Selsdon | 718 c98-100GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that I will speak for 10 seconds for each of the years that I have been in your Lo...
Baroness Coussins | 718 c106-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, have the privilege of serving on the Information Committee, and was part of the in...
Baroness Crawley | 718 c129GC (Link to this contribution) My noble friend raises a very important point. I will certainly come back to him when I have found o...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 718 c129-33GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to wind up this important and thought-provoking debate. I thank...
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 718 c123GC (Link to this contribution) I am a little bemused. Will the noble Lord’s proposals come before the Information Committee, becaus...
Lord Parekh | 718 c108-11GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is an excellent report. I begin by congratulating and thanking the noble Lord, Lord R...
Lord Bates | 718 c120-3GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this debate and to respond to the report on behalf of He...
Lord Haskel | 718 c100-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Renton, spoke about the ambassador scheme. I have been an ambassador ...
Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 718 c93-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will talk this afternoon particularly about the work that has gone on and which continue...
Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 718 c93GC (Link to this contribution) That the Grand Committee do consider the Report of the Information Committee on Are the Lords Listen...
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