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Ministerial statement on Monday, 5 July 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord McNally.

Political and Constitutional Reform

Lords statement on political and constitutional reform.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
720 c24-36 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 720 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) Can the Deputy Leader tell the House what changed the Deputy Prime Minister's mind? The material po...
Lord McNally | 720 c24-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my ri...
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Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 720 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord the Deputy Leader for repeating the Statement of the Deputy Prime M...
Lord McNally | 720 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Tomlinson, is showing off his history again. These missing 3.5 million citizen...
Lord McNally | 720 c29 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on that last point, I would expect no other. Yes, it is the job of the Official Opposition...
Lord Myners | 720 c36 (Link to this contribution) The Minister explained the reduction in the size of the other place by reference to the size of Cham...
Lord McNally | 720 c36 (Link to this contribution) It is a period of transition—I nearly said "ambition". Once the radical reforms for this place are t...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c36 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that this subject interests all parts of the House, but we have now spent 20 minute...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) I have no idea. However, I am sure that, as with previous referenda, we will have people of good wil...
Lord Rennard | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister aware that the estimates that have been made of the party-political conseq...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) We put forward proposals for the very good reason that we think they are very sensible, and we assum...
Lord Davies of Coity | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with regard to the referendum on the alternative vote, can the Minister answer this simple...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) Usually, people who say that they do not want to be unkind mean that they want to be unkind. I assur...
Lord Goodlad | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will my noble friend arrange for an early debate on the Select Committee on the Constituti...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am quite sure that the psephologists and slide-rule merchants in all parties and on television wil...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to be unkind to the Deputy Leader of the House, but his answers seem to have...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter for the usual channels.
Lord McNally | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I meant AV. It is for Parliament to scrutinise and Parliament will decide.
Lord Pannick | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) Can the Deputy Leader clarify what is the purpose of legislating to allow for a dissolution of Parli...
Lord McNally | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) The point is that once we have got to a system of fixed-term Parliaments, to prevent the Government ...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, has been trying to get in from the very start. He is the lea...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful. I should like to put a question on behalf of the 2.5 million people wh...
Lord McNally | 720 c35 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that we go into things like that at this stage.
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given the profundity of the constitutional changes that will be incorporated in this Bill,...
Lord Higgins | 720 c33 (Link to this contribution) We have heard various cost estimates, but not one for the redistribution of the boundaries under the...
Lord McNally | 720 c33 (Link to this contribution) We are not considering compulsory voting. The note of indignation about the missing 3.5 million come...
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 720 c33 (Link to this contribution) When precisely will the Government speed up registration? What action will they take between now and...
Lord McNally | 720 c33 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for those comments. It is clear that a referendum will involve a yes and a n...
Lord McNally | 720 c33 (Link to this contribution) We will have to see what the proposals are in the Bill to meet the objective of streamlining the wor...
Lord Dholakia | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, from this side of the coalition I thank the noble Lord, Lord McNally, for repeating the St...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I said that a Labour Back-Bencher should speak next. Then we will hear from my noble frien...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) I ask a question that will be on the minds of elected Members of the House of Commons. The noble Lor...
Lord Strathclyde | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have another 15 minutes. I am sure everybody will get in. Shall we hear from the Cross ...
Lord McNally | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) There is no specific culling on the basis of Welsh or Scottish devolution. There is an aim, as far a...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister recollect that, about a fortnight ago, in reply to my intervention in a ...
Lord McNally | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) No. If the noble Baroness wants me to show her the scars, I will tell her about the first Scottish r...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what is most notable about my noble friend’s presentation is that in the last paragraph he...
Lord McNally | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) That speech has been made in this House and the other place many times over the last 200 years, thou...
Lord McNally | 720 c30 (Link to this contribution) No, sit down. We have 20 minutes. So eager are the Opposition to start asking me further questions t...
Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) Given the Government’s new-found enthusiasm for a two-thirds threshold for a Dissolution of Parliame...
Lord McNally | 720 c31 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend makes a very interesting point, which I suspect that the draft Bill will cover. We h...
Lord McNally | 720 c32 (Link to this contribution) I think the figure is about 80,000. I am not sure whether I am going beyond my brief in telling the ...
Lord McNally | 720 c34 (Link to this contribution) I have just heard a major flaw in AV plus; the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, was elected to the Scottish...
Lord Waddington | 720 c30 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the noble Lord will allow me to pursue a matter that was raised by the noble Barone...
Subjects
Boundary commissions Constituency size Constituencies Alternative vote House of Commons General elections Fixed-term parliaments Dissolution Referendums Censure motions
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