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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.

Liaison Committee: Third Report

Lords debate on motion to agree the third report from the Liaison Select Committee (HL 279 2010-12). Amendment by Lord Krebs withdrawn. Original motion agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
736 c1158-85 
Session
2010-12
Department
Chairman of Committees (HL)
Liaison Committee (HL)
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Broers | 736 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak as a past chairman and present member of the Select Committee for Science and Tech...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 736 c1163-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I endorse everything that the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, has said. I used to be a member of t...
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Lord Jopling | 736 c1168-9 (Link to this contribution) We have just heard from the Cross Benches; I think it is our turn. I very much support what the nobl...
Lord Roper | 736 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak as the chairman of the European Union Committee, and I regret that I will be criti...
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 736 c1169-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, on, if nothing else, the basis that...
Lord Winston | 736 c1170 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will be brief. I would like to take up a point raised by the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, i...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1159-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Liaison Committee's terms of reference require it to advise the House on the resources...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1158 (Link to this contribution) That the 3rd Report from the Select Committee (HL Paper 279) be agreed to. Relevant document: 3rd R...
Lord Krebs | 736 c1161-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interests as the chairman of the Science and Technology Committee and as a ca...
Lord Krebs | 736 c1161 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the above Motion, at the end to insert ““, with the exception of paragraphs 18 an...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1183-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly was not trying to be contemptuous of the noble Lord, Lord Winston—rather the o...
Lord Roper | 736 c1184 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there was some sort of misunderstanding. When I came before the Liaison Committee, I sugge...
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 736 c1184-5 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord confirm that the Government remain committed to policies and structures in the H...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1185 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness but I do not speak for the Government.
Lord Krebs | 736 c1185 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord the Chairman of the Liaison Committee for his summing up, and the n...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1179-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hear the debate that we have had this evening but I have to say that I support the recom...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1179 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was about to explain to your Lordships why that core function is pointless compared to t...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1180 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Baroness not just sail over it? Would she care to comment on the override by the Gov...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1178 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that the decision of the European Commission to review the common fisheries p...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1180-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that I am going to disappoint noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. It is not...
Lord Krebs | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Leader of the House.
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord intervening to raise something, or does he wish to wind up?
Lord Krebs | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I thank the noble Lord for his comments so far, but I would appreciate it if he would address t...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) It is very difficult to provide a cost-benefit analysis until we have seen the work and the success ...
Lord May of Oxford | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord believe that his second attempt to answer the question of the noble Lord, Lord K...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) The reason is that we are trying to work within our existing budgets. Throughout the public sector t...
Lord Methuen | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) On what basis is the Committee Office funded and why, with this huge influx of new Members, could mo...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is going to be a new committee on post-legislative scrutiny of adoption and family s...
Lord Haskel | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord respond to the point made by several scientists when speaking about the Science ...
Lord Strathclyde | 736 c1182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we started off from a slightly different position. We wanted to do more different things, ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord also refer to the massed ranks of europhiles who came to the defence of those c...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief because I know that certain Members of the House want to get on to the next business...
Lord Winston | 736 c1183 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if the noble Lord might be prepared to withdraw that remark about the ““massed ranks””. It ...
Lord Winston | 736 c1170 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may finish my sentence. We have to recognise that science now pervades every aspect of wha...
Viscount Hanworth | 736 c1173 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Liaison Committee has proposed to curtail the work of the Science and Technology Commi...
Lord May of Oxford | 736 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the light of what the noble Lord has just said, I have every sympathy with the problem ...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 736 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak briefly. I have read the report of the Liaison Committee with great care. I ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 736 c1178 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it will not come as a surprise to the House to hear that I fear that the Liaison Committee...
Lord Alderdice | 736 c1173-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it might be useful to hear from these Benches and from another side of the argumen...
Lord Grenfell | 736 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to noble Lords. I begin by declaring an interest, in particular with reference to...
Lord Sewel | 736 c1178 (Link to this contribution) There is the vexatious question of the reform of the common fisheries policy. Has the noble Lord loo...
Lord Filkin | 736 c1164-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise, as a member of the Goodlad committee, to give my warm support to the recommendatio...
Lord Brabazon of Tara | 736 c1184 (Link to this contribution) I would say only that membership can be up to 14. There is no need for the European Union Committee ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 736 c1180 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would not care to comment on that at the moment, but I am grateful for the invitation fr...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 736 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt the noble Lord when he is in full flight on one of his well chosen paths, bu...
Lord Filkin | 736 c1170-1 (Link to this contribution) I would not wish to confuse my good friend, the noble Lord, Lord Winston. I totally respect the impo...
Lord Bowness | 736 c1172-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to endorse the words of the noble Lord, Lord Roper, the chairman of the European Un...
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Legislation
Adoption and Children Act 2002
Children and Adoption Act 2006
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