We have been debating matters of great constitutional importance. It is in the nature of the way Bills are drafted that amendments towards the end tend to conclude, in T S Elliot’s words: ""Not with a bang but a whimper"."
I am therefore not going to delay the Committee more than a moment or two. My only concern is that Clause 11(2)(a) and (b) seems to give the Minister of the Crown considerable powers to amend things by amendment and by statutory instrument when the original legislation has been given much more opportunity for consultation. May I simply ask therefore what kind of specified purposes the Government have in mind, either in regard to subsection (2)(a) or (b)?
Parliamentary Standards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Higgins
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 16 July 2009.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Parliamentary Standards Bill.
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