Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill [HL]
Debate on bills on Friday, 10 February 2006,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Baker of Dorking.
The answering
member was Lord Falconer of Thoroton.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
678 c902-56
Session
2005-06
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill (HL).
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP 06/525
Sunday, 19 February 2006
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Sunday, 19 February 2006
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Adams of Craigielea | 678 c914-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in rising to make my Maiden Speech, I had hoped to be making a positive and supportive one...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c913 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord has no constituency representation at all. He is here because of his person...
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Lord Laird | 678 c913 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am not disputing the personal excellence bit. The question is, when we come to vote on l...
Lord Wakeham | 678 c916-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is my great pleasure to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Adams of Craigielea, on h...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c913 (Link to this contribution)
But the noble Lord is not representing a particular area.
Lord Laird | 678 c913-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the point is that we still have a say in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. If you are ...
Lord Elder | 678 c921-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is, as my colleague was saying, not true. I shall come to that if the noble Lord will a...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c921 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does the noble Lord recognise that English MPs have limited powers now on Welsh and Scotti...
Lord Elder | 678 c920-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I find myself following the distinguished Liberal Democrat, who seemed to me, in a very in...
Lord Strathclyde | 678 c923 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Elder, promised that he would answer the question of my noble friend ...
Lord Elder | 678 c923 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the point that I made was that, constitutionally, English MPs and Westminster have the pow...
Lord Judd | 678 c924-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sure that we would at least thank the noble Lord, Lord Baker of Dorking, for giving u...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 678 c926-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I warmly congratulate my noble friend Lord Baker on introducing this Bill and I strongly s...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 678 c929-30 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, although I do not support the Bill I welcome the debate, introduced by the noble Lord, Lor...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c930 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Greater London Assembly does not have legislative powers; it cannot create laws for Lo...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 678 c931 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I also quoted the Scottish people who, according to the p...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 678 c930-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think the noble Lord does not understand what I am saying. There are Bills that go throu...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 678 c931 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if the Scottish people heard the arguments for federalism put properly and in a systematic...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c902-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.
Before addressing the details of ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 678 c905 (Link to this contribution)
Heart of Midlothian.
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c905 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry, my Lords, Heart of Midlothian. If he was still a Member of the lower House and he had vo...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c905-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, they would have absolutely no influence on it at all. It is absolute absurdity.
Another e...
Lord Laird | 678 c912-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Baker of Dorking, on his e...
Earl of Glasgow | 678 c910-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am becoming increasingly worried by the growing anti-Scottish feeling in England, most e...
Lord Sewel | 678 c908-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in moving the Second Reading of the Bill, the noble Lord, Lord Baker of Dorking, has given...
Earl of Glasgow | 678 c912 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am talking about a Prime Minister. I shall carry on.
It might make sense to deny Scotti...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c953-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have the same release. As I have said, I quoted from it because if it is in the Scotsma...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 678 c953 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord said that Menzies Campbell supports the Bill. Was that a reference to his q...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c955 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry, my Lords—I should know, as I was born there. When he was the Member of Parliament for Ne...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c955-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure there is a love-in going on, my Lords. However, the noble Lord has a sort of bifurcated pe...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 678 c955 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am happy that my former constituents in Stratford who are working in the Royal Shakespea...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c953 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, yes. But in the next government two might be enough. You never know.
As regards the Liber...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 678 c940-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, those who review this debate will surely agree that the maiden speech of the noble Barones...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c943 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall intervene standing up. That is an absurd proposition. The noble Lord has been here...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c939 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as far as I know, my birthplace is widely known. In my day, Newport was in Monmouthshire, ...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 678 c937-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have reached the part of the debate where everything that can be said has been said, bu...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 678 c939-40 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I happened also on one occasion to represent the county of Monmouthshire, and I recall tha...
Viscount Bledisloe | 678 c939 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Baker, is wrong. Monmouthshire was its own place. The United Kingdom ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c932 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Enoch Powell was dead right. He defined what has happened. He was opposing devolution beca...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 678 c931-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it gives me particular pleasure to add my very warm congratulations to my noble friend Lad...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 678 c932-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord’s proposal would compound the very problem that Enoch Powell foresaw.
The ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c952-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I accept the noble Lord’s modification and I shall come to it in a moment.
I was very gla...
Lord Laird | 678 c952 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is not exactly my position. There should be that very satisfactory position or there ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c951-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords, particularly the Lord Chancellor, for their contributions to this...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 678 c948-51 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, of course I recognise that there has been a major constitutional change. I addressed the i...
Lord Strathclyde | 678 c948 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has spoken with some passion about constitutional change, about...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 678 c946-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it has been an intensely interesting debate on an extremely important issue. Three particu...
Lord Strathclyde | 678 c945-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I said, first, that I preferred convention. If convention is not going to work, it will ha...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 678 c945 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it would be helpful to know whether it is now Conservative Party policy to support the Bil...
Lord Strathclyde | 678 c943-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by congratulating my noble friend Lord Baker of Dorking on bringing forward the Bi...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 678 c943 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord needs only enunciate that proposition to demonstrate how ridiculous it is. ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 678 c911 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Tony Blair cannot vote on any matters devolved to the Scottish Parliament. He cannot even ...
Lord Richard | 678 c923 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend will allow me to suggest to the noble Lords, Lord Baker a...
Lord Howie of Troon | 678 c935-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I greatly enjoyed the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Baker, whom I have known for a number...
Earl of Mar and Kellie | 678 c918-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Baker of Dorking, for introducing this Private Membe...
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