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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 8 February 2011, in the House of Lords.

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. Lords report stage (second day). Clause 12 (Boundary Commission proposals: publicity and consultation) amendments considered. Amendments 27G and 27L agreed. Clause 10 (Boundary Commissions: reports etc) amendments considered. Amendments 18A-E agreed. Clause 11 (Number and distribution of seats) amendments considered.

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725 c127-220, (corrigendum) 572, (corrigendum) 646 
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2010-12
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Report stage
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c163 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Lord, Lord Renton, will know, my noble friend Lord Wills’ provision states that they ha...
Lord Wills | 725 c163 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Falconer for pointing that out. Perhaps I may also say to...
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Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c158 (Link to this contribution) 27L: Clause 12, page 14, line 2, at end insert— ““(1A) After Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act there is ins...
Lord Wills | 725 c158-9 (Link to this contribution) 16HA: Before Clause 10, insert the following new Clause— ““Committee of Inquiry on Parliamentary con...
Lord Wills | 725 c159-62 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will be aware that I moved an identical amendment in Committee. I did not seek t...
Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 725 c162-3 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I was not proposing to speak to this amendment, but I have just listened to the noble...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 725 c157 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to interrupt the noble Lord when he is so carefully introducing his amendment. ...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 725 c157 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness for that. I cannot find any requirement for the Boundary Commission to pu...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c157-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for moving his amendment and for again raising this issue, which wa...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 725 c158 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 27H withdrawn. Amendments 27J and 27K not moved. ...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 725 c157 (Link to this contribution) 27H: Clause 12, page 13, line 40, at end insert— ““( ) of all representations received in writing or...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 725 c157 (Link to this contribution) This amendment is similar to the one that I moved in Committee. The amendment in Committee required ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c150-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware that there was a judicial review. The noble Lord said that everyone accepted it. He s...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c152-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is a very real and important issue here. On close analysis, the noble and learned Lo...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c149-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords and noble and learned Lords who have participated in this importan...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 725 c150 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that there was no application for a judicial hearing in relation to that? ...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 725 c148 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the rule is that my intervention denies me the right to speak, I will sit down. It was ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c173-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment would change the Bill so that the date of the next boundary review would be...
Baroness Hayman | 725 c175 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the House that if either Amendment 16J or Amendment 16K is agreed to, I cannot call...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c175 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will not speak to Amendment 26. However, I have a question to ask the noble Lord, Lord S...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 725 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was swithering about whether to speak to Amendment 25A in my name and Amendment 26 in my...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was a kind and generous invitation from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of ...
Lord Wills | 725 c168-70 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord for that, and I accept his assurance that that is the best...
Lord Wills | 725 c170 (Link to this contribution) More opacity in this debate, I am afraid. The Minister’s response has been profoundly inadequate—cha...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c173 (Link to this contribution) 16J: Clause 10, page 8, leave out lines 28 and 29 and insert ““, initially by a date to be specified...
Lord Garel-Jones | 725 c165 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord. Picking up on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Howa...
Lord Soley | 725 c165 (Link to this contribution) I invite the noble Lord to read the debates held during the Committee stage, where he will find that...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c164 (Link to this contribution) Is it not rather remarkable that the noble Lord, Lord Garel-Jones, has just admitted that the motive...
Lord Soley | 725 c164 (Link to this contribution) There is a genuine argument about whether it automatically gives a bigger majority to the Conservati...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c165-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend Lord Wills’ amendment is back with us by popular demand, having achieved a...
Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 725 c163 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord’s amendment provides for three years after passage of the Act, but it does so on what...
Lord Soley | 725 c164 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that. The advantage of my noble friend’s amendment is that it invites a considered r...
Lord Soley | 725 c164 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be very brief, but I do not in any way want to underplay the importance of this am...
Lord Garel-Jones | 725 c164 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord not consider that it might be fairer to say that what the coalition Government a...
Lord Myners | 725 c178 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the Minister confirm that the Government have therefore taken all steps to invest...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c178 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a nice idea that I would able to explain that now. My understanding is that it takes...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c178 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord explain why it will take such an extremely long time to get findings from the ce...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very happy to do so; more than that, I will try to get a letter sent to the noble Lor...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c177 (Link to this contribution) That is not the information that we are being given by Members of the other House. They are saying t...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the importance of the subject raised in this group of amendments and I will speak to the...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c176 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we all endorse the ambition to achieve equality between constituencies, although on this s...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c183 (Link to this contribution) 17: Clause 10, page 8, line 29, leave out ““fifth”” and insert ““tenth””
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when there is a census every 10 years, there is a great debate about how quickly the infor...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c137 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not, because where, as a result of the representations made at written stage, an issue is...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c136 (Link to this contribution) Is the difference, therefore, that the Boundary Commission will be the body that considers all repre...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c136 (Link to this contribution) That is the weakness in the position at present and as outlined by the noble and learned Lord: there...
Baroness Hayman | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the House that if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 27H to 27K ...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 725 c136 (Link to this contribution) Apart from the question of timing and the chairmanship of an inquiry, or whatever we call it, what i...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c136 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for that opportunity. As I am sure that the noble and le...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c133-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I propose a number of amendments to those proposed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wal...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 725 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, could the noble Lord explain what on earth a public inquiry subject to judicial review mea...
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 725 c142-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what it means is that there is a difficult and delaying process at that stage because ther...
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 725 c141-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is precisely the point. The intervention of the noble Lord illustrates that the Bound...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 725 c141 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt but I have taken part in a number of hearings in Ayrshire. In one ...
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 725 c140-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the government amendments give expression to a widespread feeling in the House, which I sh...
Lord Woolf | 725 c140 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Campbell, is of course absolutely right that the matter is in the hands of the ...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 725 c140 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his helpful clarification, but how can judicial revi...
Lord Woolf | 725 c140 (Link to this contribution) I certainly cannot say that in no circumstances could the chairman’s recommendations be the subject ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c139-40 (Link to this contribution) I have been at Boundary Commission hearings, although I do not recall a judicial review. Does not th...
Lord Woolf | 725 c138-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government have moved a long way but, in my view, they have not moved far enough. Inde...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c139 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble and learned Lord suggesting that the chairman should have a power to comment, or is he ...
Lord Woolf | 725 c139 (Link to this contribution) It would be a preliminary recommendation to be considered by the Boundary Commission, which would ma...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c137 (Link to this contribution) It will be entirely a matter for the chair, probably operating in accordance with guidance given by ...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c137 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has been extraordinarily patient, but I am sure that he wants us all to understand—an...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c138 (Link to this contribution) I have considerable sympathy with that view. If the Bill had said, ““Let there be public inquiries a...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 725 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) I have not taken much active interest in this debate but I have read all the official reports. I can...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c137 (Link to this contribution) It is important that the Boundary Commission, which has an overall view, should be the body that tak...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c137 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not making this clear. It will, but with the benefit of the recommendation made by t...
Lord Rooker | 725 c145-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise a point that only the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has touched on. I speak as someone w...
Lord Faulks | 725 c145 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, described this proposal as being c...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 725 c147 (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, my Lords, I got involved in this affair with a lot of other members of the Bar and I h...
Lord Pannick | 725 c147 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord understand that no judicial review may be brought without the leave of the court...
Lord Tyler | 725 c146-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am encouraged by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, to make a brief intervention, because I am...
Lord Shutt of Greetland | 725 c148 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think an intervention is required. The Report rules are such that Members are entitled t...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c147-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while there has been a lot of anxiety in this House over recent weeks about what we are do...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c147 (Link to this contribution) I intervene very briefly because the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, reminded me of appearing in the planni...
Lord Pannick | 725 c145 (Link to this contribution) I have taken a number of interventions. This is Report, and I hope that the House will agree with me...
Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 725 c143 (Link to this contribution) Experience shows that where two or three lawyers are gathered together one is sure to disagree. I en...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 725 c143 (Link to this contribution) When the noble Lord mentions the Government’s proposals, is it the case that those proposals will no...
Lord Pannick | 725 c143 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I share the Government’s objective here, which is to make this process more efficient. At ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c144 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord not agree that the person to whom he refers, the person who would be aggrieved, ...
Lord Pannick | 725 c143-4 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, that is the position. The opposition amendments will leave that to the discretio...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 725 c144-5 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord not agree that if the Boundary Commission failed to follow the recommendation o...
Lord Pannick | 725 c144 (Link to this contribution) I would say to the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, that in my experience it is most unusual ind...
Lord Pannick | 725 c145 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I simply do not accept that. The noble Lord is very familiar with the general proces...
Lord Bach | 725 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord for the speed with which he found the passage. Oh, did ...
Lord Bach | 725 c216 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate, not least to the Minister ...
Lord Bach | 725 c216 (Link to this contribution) 21B: Clause 11, page 10, leave out lines 12 to 19.
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, and I thank them for the amendment...
Lord Bach | 725 c218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very simple amendment which we feel the Government should be able to accept with...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I understand it, what the noble Lord intends is for rule 5, on factors which the Bounda...
Lord Bach | 725 c218 (Link to this contribution) I shall withdraw the amendment; I thank the Minister for his reply. However, it seems a remarkable f...
Lord Bach | 725 c218 (Link to this contribution) 21J: Clause 11, page 10, line 28, after ““ties”” insert ““, including wards,””
Lord Bach | 725 c216-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, rule 4 is designed to place a limit on the territorial extent of a constituency. That rule...
Lord Grocott | 725 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can make my remarks in two minutes. I have had the enormous privilege of serving not onl...
Lord Kinnock | 725 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been tempted to enter the debate, to some extent, by the noble Lord, Lord Renton. ...
Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 725 c193 (Link to this contribution) I would like to pick up on one or two of the comments made by the noble Lords, Lord Lipsey and Lord ...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) The point I hope to make clear is that I am not claiming that there will not be a saving in salary; ...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the noble Lord’s long experience in another place has not enabled him easily to abso...
Lord Tyler | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) But the allowance is not increased? The staffing allowance is not increased simply because there are...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) That often happens in this life. I was just coming to that. What will happen is that MPs will come b...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord will forgive me, we should not have multiple interventions on Report. The last int...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 725 c191 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wonder if my noble friend would take that a little further. If the Government want to sa...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c191 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of Straight Statistics, a group working against statisti...
Lord Tyler | 725 c192 (Link to this contribution) I know that in the past we have assumed that the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, has been a Member of the o...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is right. There are bags of extra costs in this Bill, including £80 million well spe...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c187-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 18F would replace the current provision of the Bill to fix the House of Commons ...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble and learned friend, as the House has come to expect of him, has laid out all the ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c190 (Link to this contribution) I think that the noble Lord slightly mischaracterises my argument. The effect of my proposal is that...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c190 (Link to this contribution) I am hugely relieved as a result of my noble and learned friend’s intervention. However, I do not th...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 725 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to say a few words in support of Amendment 18H. I am sure that the Minister will sa...
Lord McNally | 725 c186 (Link to this contribution) 18A: Clause 10, page 9, line 8, leave out ““, with or without modifications,””
Lord Lipsey | 725 c186 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving it that consideration. He makes it plain that the Go...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c185 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment seeks to deal with the following situation. At the moment we have a five-ye...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c184 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I see the force of the argument; I just think that the argument for a review every 10 year...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c185 (Link to this contribution) 18: Clause 10, page 8, line 29, at end insert— ““( ) If in the event a general election is not held ...
Lord Bach | 725 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak to the one amendment in this group that has now been moved but, first, I apol...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c184 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, for moving his amendment. I also thank the noble Lord...
Lord Lipsey | 725 c183 (Link to this contribution) This amendment follows on from one that I moved in Committee. In that one, I favoured seven years, w...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c212 (Link to this contribution) Durham—forgive me, it is late in the evening. I hope that my noble friend will forgive me.
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c212 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend speaks with her characteristic sensitivity to political emotions, which are very imp...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 725 c212 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend might like to know that a couple of years ago Durham County became a new unitary aut...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c212 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have three amendments in this group: Amendments 27AA, 27BA and 27BB. These are technical...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c213 (Link to this contribution) Technically, perhaps the county of Durham is no longer a county council as such; I do not know. It s...
Lord Bach | 725 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, other noble Lords have also tabled amendments in this group. They would insert a number of...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c208 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the figures immediately to hand, although before I finish I might be able to provide t...
Lord Tyler | 725 c209 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness will be aware that the present constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood crosses a...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one can only speculate at present on what the Boundary Commission will propose. I know tha...
Baroness McDonagh | 725 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his response. I will respond quickly. I would be surprised if it were the G...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c209 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend makes the point that constituencies cross London borough boundaries. I rep...
Lord Bach | 725 c208 (Link to this contribution) Which other examples does the noble and learned Lord have in mind? He is quite right to mention Oldh...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c208 (Link to this contribution) I hear my noble friend and, although I do not have an exact figure, a significant number of county b...
Lord Trimble | 725 c208 (Link to this contribution) On the question of historic county boundaries, I do not have the precise facts, but I think I am acc...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the Bill is set out, at each relevant date the quota for the Boundary Commission—the nu...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c207 (Link to this contribution) What happens if the population rises by 2.5 million and, when it is spread out as a ripple effect ac...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The figure is 613 for Great Britain, which, with Northern Ireland, takes it to 630. We are a...
Lord Bach | 725 c205 (Link to this contribution) I have some brief comments. I congratulate my noble friend on her amendment. The House knows that wh...
Baroness McDonagh | 725 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) My amendment seeks to look at all the issues that a Bill such as this needs to incorporate. Any Bill...
Baroness McDonagh | 725 c203 (Link to this contribution) 18FA: Clause 11, page 9, line 37, leave out from beginning to end of line 5 on page 10 and insert— “...
Earl Attlee | 725 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that further consideration on Report be now adjourned. In doing so, I sugges...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c197-9 (Link to this contribution) We have accepted the case for that. We would like to do it, but it will not be in this Bill. There i...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c199 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord’s speech was again attractively delivered and charmingly put, but it got worse and wo...
Lord Kinnock | 725 c197 (Link to this contribution) On the basis that the Government want to do more with less, can the noble Lord suggest to me the rea...
Lord Beecham | 725 c197 (Link to this contribution) Will the Government apply the principle of more for less to the number of Ministers?
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c197 (Link to this contribution) We certainly would. Ten per cent is also a nice round figure and very convenient for working out wha...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. The noble Lord, Lord Grocott, as a former g...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 725 c195 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to make it clear to the House that I shall not move my Amendment 18G in this group ...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c197 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no estimate of the increase in costs. I shall answer that point when I get to the...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 725 c196 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord tell us what the Government’s estimate is of the increased costs in the Electora...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) I will not go down the road of wondering who the timescale was intended to suit. It is clear that Bo...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my noble and learned friend would agree that the answer to this is not to have members of th...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) 27G: Clause 12, page 13, line 30, leave out from beginning to end of line 2 on page 14 and insert— “...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c128-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these amendments provide for public hearings as part of the Boundary Commission’s consulta...
Lord Rooker | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the Minister says, but if we are going to have a real culture change, it w...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 725 c130 (Link to this contribution) Will the commission be able to extend the period of consultation where due notice is given? I am thi...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c130-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in order to give the Boundary Commissions a clear direction on this, we have indicated tha...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c170 (Link to this contribution) That is the most hypothetical of all hypothetical questions. If the noble Lord had set it up, we wou...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c136 (Link to this contribution) The effect of the Bill and all previous Bills is that the Boundary Commission's conclusions are in p...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) 27GA: Clause 12, line 11, leave out ““12”” and insert ““6””
Lord Myners | 725 c214 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was not intending to speak to this series of amendments but I believe there is an import...
Lord McNally | 725 c217-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not refer to the accessibility argument. Amendment 21B seeks to remove the provision for an e...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c187 (Link to this contribution) 18F: Clause 11, page 9, leave out lines 36 and 37 and insert— ““United Kingdom electoral quota 1 The...
Lord McNally | 725 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this series of government amendments seeks to remove any ambiguity about the discretion af...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 725 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that at this stage in the proceedings and at this time of night, there is not a great appe...
Lord Bach | 725 c210 (Link to this contribution) 21A: Clause 11, page 10, line 8, at end insert— ““( ) In England the Boundary Commission should wher...
Lord Beecham | 725 c208 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that if the 5 per cent threshold were adopted, only nine out of 46 county b...
Lord Martin of Springburn | 725 c148-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord; I am obliged. I intervened on cross-examination but it was not my interest t...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c179 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for his response. It was extremely disappointing and reflected an approach th...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c132 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend perhaps articulated the point that I was hinting at. The government amendments comp...
Lord Strathclyde | 725 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, for moving that amendment. The issue that he is pursu...
Lord Tyler | 725 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 27A, 27C and 27D. I want to pay tribute to my noble friends on...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) My noble Lords, first, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McDonagh, for her amendment. In a number of ...
Notes
In Division No. 4, Baroness Smith of Basildon should have been recorded as voting Content and not Not Content. In Division No. 1, Lord Briggs should not have been recorded as voting Content. The record of the Division should state that the Tellers reported 262 names, but that the Clerks recorded 261 names.
Subjects
Boundary commissions Constituency size Constituencies Electoral register Members Public inquiries Population
Legislation
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010-12
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