I explained that right at the beginning. I said that this is a device. It is a device to enable the Committee to come to a decision. I said that at the beginning; I do not disguise it. It is a means of enabling the Committee not just to express voices across the Chamber, as we did at Second Reading, but to have a vote and to show the numbers to the Government and to the Members of the House of Commons.
House of Lords Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Steel of Aikwood
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 19 March 2009.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on House of Lords Bill [HL].
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