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Debate on select committee report on Monday, 26 March 2012, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Brabazon of Tara.

Procedure of the House

Lords debate on motion to agree the eleventh report from the Procedure Select Committee (HL 253 2010-12). Amendment by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon withdrawn. Amendment by Lord Cormack agreed to on division (319 to 96). Remaining amendments not moved. Motion, as amended, agreed to on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
736 c1129-58 
Session
2010-12
Department
Chairman of Committees (HL)
Procedure Committee (HL)
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Alderdice | 736 c1145 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate the good advice from my noble friend Lord Elton, but there are two issues to ...
Lord Elton | 736 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while we are all on this matter, which we very rarely are, may I take the opportunity to p...
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Lord Berkeley | 736 c1144 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall talk just briefly about my amendment on Written Answers during times when the Hous...
Earl of Erroll | 736 c1144 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if we start sending more things to Committees off the Floor of the House, we will soon dis...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1146 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have an interest in the subject raised by the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit, and the noble Bar...
Baroness Hayman | 736 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to contribute to today's debate, but three things make me want to contr...
Lord Tebbit | 736 c1142-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to give some small advice, if I may, to my noble friend the Leader of the Hou...
Baroness Boothroyd | 736 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to inform the House that I have not received a letter, either from the Leader of th...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1147-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this might be a useful opportunity to say a few words, but I begin by joining the noble Ba...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1149 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord the Leader of the House, but as all noble Lords will recall, ...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1149 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, you do not have to be a mathematician to work out that the 37 per cent of the House which ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1150 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am terribly sorry, but I have to set the record straight. The Protection of Freedoms Bil...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1149 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if it made no difference, presumably the noble Baroness would not have refused, as she did...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 736 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a member of the Leader's Group, I have noticed that not a great deal of this debate has...
Lord Marlesford | 736 c1146 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would never presume to call myself a politician. I suppose that, if anything, I am an ob...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 736 c1147 (Link to this contribution) That may be so. The recommendations of the Leader's Group referred to the Companion in this context,...
Lord Elton | 736 c1147 (Link to this contribution) If one looks at the Companion, one finds that there is no proposal to change: there may be an additi...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 736 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, again, I speak with reference to the Welfare Reform Bill, where the noble Lord, Lord De Ma...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords, my noble friend has got it entirely right. There would still be a Motion before the H...
Lord Elton | 736 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Am I right in thinking that under the proposals, when at the end of the Second Reading, the Lord Spe...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1152 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that there is any intention to give the Executive more power, or that it is...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 736 c1151 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord and I thank him for the good humour with which he has handled t...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wrote to many of the participants and all those to whom I wrote without exception said h...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 736 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right in his description of the effectiveness of Grand Commit...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1150-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have no quarrel with the decision the noble Baroness made in that instance. The noble Ba...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened carefully to this excellent short debate. The noble Lord, Lord Cormack, ma...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1154 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be extremely brief because, fortunately, none of the points made in the debate on ...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1155 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not wish to take up any more of the House's time, save to say that I suspect I know w...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1155 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the Motion in the name of the Chairman of Committees, at the end to insert ““, wi...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1153-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish my point. This report will have no impact on the passage of such a Bill if it cam...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1129 (Link to this contribution) That the 11th Report from the Select Committee (HL Paper 253) be agreed to. Relevant document: 3rd ...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1129-33 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving this Motion, I would first like to apologise for the fact that the debate has be...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1133 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the above Motion, at the end to insert ““, but with the fourth bullet point in pa...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1133-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Chairman of Committees for moving the Motion on the reports. All the ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may clarify the situation. Forgive me, but we had agreed that we would have an e...
Lord Crickhowell | 736 c1140-1 (Link to this contribution) That is rather an interesting exchange. It has magnified what I had intended to say. However, it was...
Lord Crickhowell | 736 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in that point, because I expressly asked the Leader of the House in his room, at abo...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I offered the noble Baroness a letter. I rewrote it several times last week. Sadly, she refused to a...
Lord Crickhowell | 736 c1139-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have spent nearly 43 years in Parliament, 17 of them in the other place. When I am urged...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord in full flow. However, it is very interesting that all Member...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1136-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Royall. I agree with much of what she sa...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 736 c1138-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with what the noble Lord has just said. If there is to be a presumption then the p...
Lord Laming | 736 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have never felt so lonely for such a long time. I voted for this report in committee and...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1153 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all we are doing here is extending the envelope by which the Grand Committee can sit. It w...
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