I do not think I actually said it was in the Bill. What I said was that the Appointments Commission would ultimately be responsible for appointing the future composition of this House. If I am wrong about that, I am not sure there is any purpose in the Bill. I understood that the whole point of the statutory Appointments Commission is that it would provide people to sit in the House of Lords, in stark contrast to alternatives.
House of Lords Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Strathclyde
(Conservative)
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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