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Dissolution of Parliament

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

510 c135-54 

Session

2010-12

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

David Heath | 510 c152 (Link to this contribution) May I remove any view that the hon. Gentleman might have formed that I am reluctant to entertain the...

Christopher Chope | 510 c152 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman appears to be reaching his peroration. I wonder whether he could explain how the ...

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David Heath | 510 c153-4 (Link to this contribution) The coalition agreement was, I think, published three days ago, so it is not unreasonable to do furt...

David Heath | 510 c151-2 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give details of timing—[Hon. Members: "Ah!"] I cannot give details of timing on the first d...

Christopher Chope | 510 c152 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell us when the binding motion is going to be published? If it is going to be deb...

David Heath | 510 c152 (Link to this contribution) It will be put on the Order Paper at the earliest opportunity. I cannot be more precise than that, a...

Lord Tyrie | 510 c152 (Link to this contribution) Will the Deputy Leader of the House explain why he seems so reluctant to allow pre-legislative scrut...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 510 c151 (Link to this contribution) As this is a contentious matter, will the Deputy Leader of the House tell us whether he is generally...

Fiona Mactaggart | 510 c146-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that it is for Parliament to decide, but the hon. Member for Christchurc...

David Heath | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) First of all, the experience of those of us who have been in the House for the last 13 years is that...

Peter Bone | 510 c145-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Michael Connarty)....

David Heath | 510 c146 (Link to this contribution) I begin by not only acknowledging the number of hon. Members who are present for the Adjournment, wh...

Michael Connarty | 510 c143-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope) for making this the subject of the firs...

Fiona Mactaggart | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

David Heath | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) No. I am being very generous, but this is not the hon. Lady's Adjournment debate and I want to hear ...

Angela Eagle | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

David Heath | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) All Members of Parliament are entitled to take whatever view they feel appropriate. It is not for me...

Angela Eagle | 510 c147 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and we note that the Bill will not be guillotined when it...

Fiona Mactaggart | 510 c148 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give the House a commitment that this Government will not use their 55% to c...

David Heath | 510 c148-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a clear commitment on the part of this Government that we wish to maintain this Parliament and...

David Heath | 510 c148 (Link to this contribution) No, as I have given way to the hon. Lady already. Secondly, not only does the party in power have a...

David Heath | 510 c148 (Link to this contribution) None of this will work if the Prime Minister of the day maintains the power to pick the election dat...

Christopher Chope | 510 c149 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain how this Dissolution will take place? He says that there would have ...

David Heath | 510 c149 (Link to this contribution) I do not understand the hon. Gentleman's point. This will be legislation, and he will have the oppor...

Peter Bone | 510 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. He is helping the House understand this system and i...

David Heath | 510 c149 (Link to this contribution) The legislation will be framed in such a way that, if no Government are formed within a particular t...

Charles Walker | 510 c150 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been to many Adjournment debates. There are normally three people in such a d...

David Heath | 510 c150 (Link to this contribution) We will have a period of reflection: first, we will publish the motion, which the House will conside...

David Heath | 510 c149-50 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Gentleman, it instead removes a difficult dilemma for the monarch, who is b...

David Heath | 510 c150-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have noticed that I was in the same Lobby voting against those guillotine mo...

Michael Connarty | 510 c151 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct on the point about resignation, which I did know about, but when a Pri...

Julian Lewis | 510 c150 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way so generously. I was reassured by what he said earlier abo...

David Heath | 510 c151 (Link to this contribution) So be it—that is the point of parliamentary debate. However, there is no point whatever in having le...

Philip Davies | 510 c151 (Link to this contribution) We will do.

David Heath | 510 c151 (Link to this contribution) Let me respectfully suggest that that is the situation at the moment. I am quite prepared to argue o...

Angela Eagle | 510 c143 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his generosity in giving way. What does he think about the propriety ...

Christopher Chope | 510 c143 (Link to this contribution) I would not say at this stage that it is an improper way of proceeding, because these are very early...

Julian Lewis | 510 c142 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that my hon. Friend is unlikely to be so persuaded, because that situation is par for th...

Christopher Chope | 510 c142 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that powerful intervention. At the moment, we have not yet signe...

Peter Bone | 510 c140-1 (Link to this contribution) May I take my hon. Friend back to before the general election? He will recall that on the Order Pape...

Christopher Chope | 510 c141-2 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the fact that my hon. Friend was and is in favour of fixed-term Parliaments, and ...

Christopher Chope | 510 c138-40 (Link to this contribution) I have not gone into the detail of that, but I am sure the hon. Lady is correct. All of this brings...

Angela Eagle | 510 c138 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made precisely the right point in respect of the Scottish Parliament, but wil...

Christopher Chope | 510 c137 (Link to this contribution) Before the Scottish Parliament was set up, legislation set out what the rules would be in that Parli...

Martin Horwood | 510 c137 (Link to this contribution) Surely the logic of that argument is that the bar should be set even higher, perhaps to the 66% that...

Christopher Chope | 510 c137 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is correct constitutionally to say that the Prime Minister ha...

Angela Eagle | 510 c137 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm my reading of the situation that, as a result of the 55% rule, the m...

Christopher Chope | 510 c137 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a fair point and has thought through the possible implications of this. She may ...

Peter Bone | 510 c136 (Link to this contribution) What does my hon. Friend think would have happened when Callaghan's Government fell and an election ...

Christopher Chope | 510 c136 (Link to this contribution) It was because I did not know the answer to that question that I initiated the debate. I hope that m...

Martin Horwood | 510 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one example of the royal prerogative being diluted might be to ta...

Christopher Chope | 510 c135 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by saying how grateful I am to you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to raise the subjec...

Michael Connarty | 510 c149 (Link to this contribution) My problem is that, in the situation that the hon. Gentleman is describing, he is relying on convent...

Subjects

House of Commons Fixed-term parliaments Dissolution Parliament Standards Royal prerogative Divisions Censure motions

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