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Debate on Tuesday, 16 November 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Strathclyde. The answering member was Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.

Interim Report: Leader's Group on Members Leaving the House

Lords debate on motion to take note of the Interim Report from the Leader's Group on Members leaving the House (HL 48 2010-11). Agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
722 c673-711 
Session
2010-12
Department
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c674 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord does not need to wait until 3 December. I remind him that, in the days before we were...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I say again what a pity it is that we will not hear the noble Lord’s full speech this afte...
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Lord Desai | 722 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the debate. I did not testify to the Committee, but I believe that this is a ver...
Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 722 c676-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Desai, who has almost made my speech for m...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to open this short debate today on the interim report of the Leader’s Group...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c673 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That this House takes note of the Interim Report from the Leader’s Group on Members leavi...
Earl Ferrers | 722 c688 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness has produced the old chestnut. I am bound to tell her that I was giving...
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy | 722 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after the noble Earl’s speech there is not an awful lot left to be said. What a ridiculou...
Earl Ferrers | 722 c685-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having listened to the remarkable contribution of my noble friend Lord Alderdice, it made ...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 722 c688 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Earl sits down, he referred during his very interesting speech to funny i...
Bishop of Blackburn | 722 c679-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wonder whether the experience of those who have occupied this Bench may be of some assis...
Baroness D'Souza | 722 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suspect that many of us are going to say almost exactly the same thing, perhaps using sl...
Lord Alderdice | 722 c683-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in following the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, I express on my own behalf—and, I am sur...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 722 c683 (Link to this contribution) The best and most direct answer to my noble friend on his two questions is that we will obviously re...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 722 c682 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may ask my noble friend two very short questions. Whatever may be the option, is it not wh...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 722 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for giving us this opport...
Earl Ferrers | 722 c697 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord was kind enough to say that he agrees with something that I said, but he ca...
Lord Tyler | 722 c697 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Earl should take credit for persuading me, as he has this afternoon. He said tha...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 722 c697 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can the noble Lord correct what may have led to a misunderstanding on my part? He appeared...
Lord Tyler | 722 c698 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness makes a very fair point. If I had had a bit more time—and I am conscious that the...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 722 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may add my congratulations to my noble friend Lord Hunt and the members of his c...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 722 c701-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a joy and a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I apologise to the House because I ha...
Lord Waddington | 722 c703-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been a fascinating debate. All sorts of views have been expressed, but there is one...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c705-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to wind up from the opposition Benches on this interesting debate. ...
Lord Cobbold | 722 c705 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I intervene in the gap? I apologise for not being here at the beginning of this debate...
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 722 c690-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Astor, because I absolutely agree with...
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy | 722 c693 (Link to this contribution) Has the noble Lord considered what the press would say if any Peer were given a penny to leave this ...
Viscount Astor | 722 c689-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no greater admirer of your Lordships' House than myself, but I think that it is a...
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 722 c693-4 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrat policy might be slightly out of date, but I thought that we were in favour of a...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 722 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral on his report, and indeed his committee...
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 722 c693 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have thought about that. It is an important question, but there are commercial and business s...
Lord Grenfell | 722 c693 (Link to this contribution) We are all agreed that we need to do something about the size of the House, but I am having difficul...
Lord Tyler | 722 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Desai, has misunderstood me. I was suggesting that it would be wrong ...
Lord Desai | 722 c696 (Link to this contribution) I am somewhat lost. A person who does not come here does not get paid anything and does not cost any...
Lord Tyler | 722 c695-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very tempted to follow my noble friend and try to explain the massive underrepresenta...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c708-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what a fascinating, good natured and good humoured debate this has been. Noble Lords have ...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c709-11 (Link to this contribution) I was also grateful to my noble friend Lord Alderdice. I am not sure whether he is a good Peer becau...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c709 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that is the case. If we take that into account, then the coalition Government have a pra...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c709 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that if one takes into account the, shall we kindly say, limited voting of the Cross Ben...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 722 c698-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my contribution will be comparatively brief because I am just recovering from a severe col...
Lord Strathclyde | 722 c709 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I assure the noble Lord that I have absolutely no doubt that in the rest of this long Sess...
Subjects
Age Elections House of Lords House of Lords composition Payments Peers Reform Retirement House of Lords Leader's Group on Members Leaving the House
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