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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 16 May 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top. The answering member was Oliver Heald.
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill. Report stage second day. Concluded. Third reading debate agreed to on division (259 to 213). Passed.
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Parliamentary proceeding
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446 c871-969 
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2005-06
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Cabinet Office
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Third reading and Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 446 c871 (Link to this contribution) There are a number of ways in which the Minister may do that. I cannot go through them all now, but ...
Speaker | 446 c941 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm only that it begins to look extremely improbable that the other parts of the Bill are ...

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David Heath | 446 c965-9 (Link to this contribution) This started off as a Bill with a benign intent, but it was nonsense, preposterous and deeply danger...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c963 (Link to this contribution) No. Other hon. Members who have been here all day want me to get on with my remarks so that they can...
Oliver Heald | 446 c965 (Link to this contribution) I will make one final point to show that the Bill is not good enough. The Department of Trade and In...
Andrew Miller | 446 c965 (Link to this contribution) I should like to spend just one minute thanking hon. Members, including the members of Select Commit...
Oliver Heald | 446 c965 (Link to this contribution) Like many Members on the Opposition Benches, my right hon. Friend has a proud record on deregulation...
John Redwood | 446 c965 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend find it as surprising as I did that after all those long debates, the Minister co...
Oliver Heald | 446 c964 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to her new responsibilities. It is good to see her escape at last from the co...
Lord Deben | 446 c964 (Link to this contribution) In the short time that my hon. Friend has been given, will he kindly tell the House what part of the...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c964 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must get on. I want hon. Members to bear in mind the fact that the Government hav...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c963 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me, I must make progress, as we are nearly out of tim...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c962 (Link to this contribution) Reducing those costs by a quarter over five years, as the Dutch are doing, could save us up to 1 per...
Christopher Chope | 446 c962 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way to me, Mr. Speaker. You were obviously surp...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c962 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, we believe that, used properly, these provisions will reduce burdens. B...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is patient, I will explain. Regulation itself is not a bad thing; it is the ma...
John Redwood | 446 c960 (Link to this contribution) Well over a year ago, before the election, the Prime Minister made a fine speech about the importanc...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c960 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the right hon. Gentleman knows that the Bill is only part of the Government’s wide-ranging...
Lord Cormack | 446 c961 (Link to this contribution) This rhetoric is music to my ears, but may we hear just one example from the right hon. Lady—whom I ...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c961 (Link to this contribution) One idea that I have spent some time on, and which I will look at again in much more detail when I d...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c961 (Link to this contribution) Not tonight. We have plenty of time, and I want to allow others to contribute to this debate. I am ...
Mark Fisher | 446 c940 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that these issues are too nice—in the true sense of the word—to tease out in three and a...
John Hemming | 446 c940 (Link to this contribution) The key point is that if there is a statutory instrument or order under the Bill that enables sub-de...
Pat McFadden | 446 c940 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help the House further. In the case of our Bill, explicit wording would be needed to a...
Mark Fisher | 446 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) The point is very well made from a sedentary position by the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howart...
David Howarth | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) That is the exactly the point—unless it is authorised.
Greg Knight | 446 c941 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you confirm that parts 2 and 3 of this very important ...
Rob Marris | 446 c940 (Link to this contribution) In terms of what the Minister said in response to amendments Nos. 7 and 8, which were tabled by my h...
David Heath | 446 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) That was a short, but informative debate. I agree that the Minister has been doing a good job in rat...
Speaker | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has concluded his speech.
Mark Fisher | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) Instead of intervening on the Minister, perhaps I can make one of the shortest speeches on record. ...
Mark Fisher | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) Not but—and I have spent some time reading the Bill and perhaps I have missed it, but I cannot see w...
Pat McFadden | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) I advise my hon. Friend to read paragraph 31 of the volume of Halsbury’s Laws on administrative law ...
Pat McFadden | 446 c925-7 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take that point on board in the ongoing discussions, in which I hope that the Chairman...
Speaker | 446 c927 (Link to this contribution) Order. I thought that the Minister had sat down, and I think that my interpretation was correct. I c...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c927-31 (Link to this contribution) We have heard many significant concerns voiced by Members from all parties. We do not like the way i...
Pat McFadden | 446 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) The position is symmetrical because the statutory veto relates to the powers in the Bill, which is t...
Andrew Miller | 446 c925 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the tone that he is adopting and think that further discussion i...
Roger Gale | 446 c934 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not want to detain the House, but during the debate on...
David Heath | 446 c934 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time
Speaker | 446 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 5, in page 2, line 16 [Clau...
Pat McFadden | 446 c938 (Link to this contribution) I was pleased to hear that the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) accede to the ca...
David Howarth | 446 c938 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Miller | 446 c937 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 7 would change the default position and ensure that the positive and negative procedur...
Oliver Heald | 446 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) The original Bill attracted widespread criticism because it allowed such wide sub-delegation. Throug...
Andrew Miller | 446 c937 (Link to this contribution) In view of the time, I shall be extremely brief. I wish to move the two amendments in my name, which...
Speaker | 446 c937 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman does not have to move his amendments, but merely speak to the group.
Pat McFadden | 446 c938 (Link to this contribution) I should like to press on. Amendments Nos. 7 and 8, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesme...
Pat McFadden | 446 c938 (Link to this contribution) Given the time available, I would rather make some progress. When making an order that confers a po...
Christopher Chope | 446 c871 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have just collected from the board a letter from the Parl...
Mark Harper | 446 c872 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 446 c871 (Link to this contribution) I have seen the letter to which the hon. Gentleman refers. I am sorry to disappoint him, but my advi...
Christopher Chope | 446 c871 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point of order,Mr. Deputy Speaker. Would you be prepared to indicate when it might be...
Speaker | 446 c876 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is referring to the Committee or to the hon. Member ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c876 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was referring to the Committee. Was there any discussion in the Co...
Andrew Miller | 446 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) We looked specifically at the history of the then 27 orders that had been dealt with and, with the l...
Mark Harper | 446 c874 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and for what I think was a compliment. Unfortunatel...
David Heath | 446 c874-5 (Link to this contribution) May I set at rest the mind of the hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mr. Harper)? I am quite sure that ...
Andrew Miller | 446 c876 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with what the hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mr. Harper) said, given that he r...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c876 (Link to this contribution) I admired the section of the Select Committee’s report on that issue and I support the excellent poi...
Speaker | 446 c872 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 7—Expiry—"‘Part 1 of this Act ...
Mark Harper | 446 c872-3 (Link to this contribution) New clause 2 aims to inject a shot of transparency into the Bill. It provides for a report on the op...
David Howarth | 446 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman back to our consideration of the Bill, as we missed him yesterday. Will...
Pat McFadden | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the assurance given in Committee was that a Minister would report back after no ...
Pat McFadden | 446 c878 (Link to this contribution) I do not feel that there will be a great difference between us on this subject. There is a lot of se...
Charles Walker | 446 c878 (Link to this contribution) How would a periodic review be timetabled? Would not a sunset clause create an imperative for a revi...
Andrew Miller | 446 c878 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman’s point about the relationship between my hon. Friend the Minister and oth...
Speaker | 446 c878 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the point has been made.
Andrew Miller | 446 c878 (Link to this contribution) I have sort of got the point, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Gentleman is seeking to run an auctio...
Mark Harper | 446 c877 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that remark. New clauses 7 and 24 are very much either/or provisions....
Mark Harper | 446 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was present at most of the deliberations in Committee, so he will be aware that t...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c896 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty is that we cannot reflect fully in the time before the Bill leaves the House of Commo...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c896 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. I gave some time to his party’s proposal because I think there ...
Robert Smith | 446 c896 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman told the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) that he had de...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c894 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Part of the problem is that the Government have been consistentl...
Greg Knight | 446 c894 (Link to this contribution) The Government deserve credit for listening to representations and giving ground in some other areas...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c894 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point. Were the matter concerned to be dealt wit...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c894 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making sound points in criticising the adequacy of the veto offered. Will he refle...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c895 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to the hon. Gentleman’s new clause, which has its problems, although, as he will hear...
David Heath | 446 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) Actually, what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said was entirely in line with the new clause th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c895-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just demonstrated his ability to participate. I do not think anyone is saying...
Pete Wishart | 446 c895 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned minorities. I think that the Liberal Democrats’ new clause has its meri...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c892-4 (Link to this contribution) This important group of amendments seeks to introduce similar changes to clauses 14, 15 and 16, whic...
Speaker | 446 c888-92 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 6—Reference of order to Second...
Andrew Love | 446 c883 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The Minister has repeated an argument made in Committee that the requirement for an annual...
Alison Seabeck | 446 c883 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a fair point. The Bill facilitates the sensible use of the order-making process...
Speaker | 446 c888 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is bearing out the point that I have just made. These issues are very much matter...
Christopher Chope | 446 c888 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You rightly say that this is a matter for debate...
Speaker | 446 c887 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s point is really a matter for debate, and the issue will no doubt come out as we...
Christopher Chope | 446 c887 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your advice. In Committee, the then Minister—now the...
Andrew Love | 446 c882 (Link to this contribution) I was a little disappointed by the Minister’s comments on new clause 2. As I said, although I do not...
Pat McFadden | 446 c882 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to confirm that the commitment is to report within five years.
Andrew Love | 446 c883 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman’s suggestion. I could add that much of the legislation passed b...
Mark Harper | 446 c882-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman spoke about how Ministers’ performance is assessed. To achieve a culture change, ...
Speaker | 446 c882 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just clarify the fact that that was an intervention on the Minister and that the Minist...
Speaker | 446 c882 (Link to this contribution) I think that we will take it as an intervention.
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c882 (Link to this contribution) It could be taken as a speech, in reply to which the Minister could apply for leave to speak again.
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c881 (Link to this contribution) Can we just clarify one thing? The Minister contradicted himself in response to my hon. Friend the M...
Pat McFadden | 446 c881 (Link to this contribution) We have said that there should be a review in no more than five years. However, we are not prepared ...
David Heath | 446 c881 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is straying into exactly the fallacy against which I warned earlier. The Conservative n...
Pat McFadden | 446 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) Some people who have examined the procedure that will emerge when the Bill is enacted do not think t...
Pat McFadden | 446 c880 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a sound point. There must be a culture in Departments whereby that is a priorit...
Andrew Love | 446 c880 (Link to this contribution) As a former member of the Regulatory Reform Committee, I agree with my hon. Friend about the prescri...
Pat McFadden | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the reason behind the Bill is that we must make greater progres...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) Is not the Minister rather missing the point? The Bill is being introduced because the reports and t...
Pat McFadden | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I would like to make some progress. Departments are currently reviewing their regu...
Pat McFadden | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make some progress. The Government also believe that all Departments should keep th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c897 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made the same point again. He has heard what I have had to say. I shall move ...
Christopher Chope | 446 c897 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend now accept that there may well be scope for common ground between all Opposition...
David Howarth | 446 c897 (Link to this contribution) The problem that new clause 14 at least attempts to solve is precisely the question of what counts a...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c897 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, if only in saying—as I think I have been saying—that a ...
David Howarth | 446 c897 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c896 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my right hon. and learned Friend says. It is an interesting debate. According to company...
Andrew Miller | 446 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman in his difficulties with the right hon. and learned Member for...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c897-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that the matter should be seen in a wider context, and in that context I cannot answer my ho...
David Heath | 446 c904-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not understand anything about the Government’s approach to the Bill. They have been dragged, ki...
Oliver Heald | 446 c904 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it would be a fine thing to trust our Select Committees with the ...
David Heath | 446 c905 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Gentleman is trying to reach the right outcome, but I do not share his op...
Andrew Miller | 446 c905 (Link to this contribution) That is why I wanted to explore whether it would be better to address the problem through a differen...
Andrew Miller | 446 c902-3;446 c902 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I have some sympathy with the views of the authors of those amendments, which pro...
David Heath | 446 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the notion expounded by the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Andrew Mill...
Andrew Miller | 446 c903 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must not tempt me. The alternative to that is that practical politics might stop ...
Ed Miliband | 446 c905 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman underestimates my hon. Friend on the Treasury Bench.
David Heath | 446 c905 (Link to this contribution) I may be underestimating the Minister, but I have seen dodgy procedure from past Home Secretaries an...
Roger Gale | 446 c908 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with the hon. Gentleman’s view that the House should be able to challenge the v...
David Heath | 446 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hard work that goes on in Select Committees to try to deal with such issues, but as...
Andrew Miller | 446 c907 (Link to this contribution) If I might correct the hon. Gentleman, that is why we have a consultation process. That is why the o...
David Heath | 446 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) I have hon. Friends on both sides of the Chamber so I, too, shall call the hon. Gentleman my hon. Fr...
Oliver Heald | 446 c906 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is in this case. Does my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Fr...
David Heath | 446 c906 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right. Such statutory constraints on the exercise...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c906;446 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that I am correct in saying that if a Select Committee was contemplating a recommendation th...
David Heath | 446 c908 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his observation. First, parties are established under S...
Andrew Miller | 446 c901 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend says, but I am talking about practical politics; about a Committee’s abil...
Andrew Miller | 446 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I think this is the first time, Madam Deputy Speaker, that you have had to listen to our long and co...
Andrew Miller | 446 c901 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with the point that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is making, but I am si...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c901 (Link to this contribution) My understanding of ministerial undertakings is that they are regarded as binding only on the Govern...
Andrew Miller | 446 c901 (Link to this contribution) Given the Minister’s experience over the past 24 hours, he probably wants to move on rapidly, like h...
David Heath | 446 c901 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman and I know that his intention is good, but the point ...
Greg Knight | 446 c902 (Link to this contribution) Surely the point is this. We were given a ministerial undertaking on 7 February and what we need now...
Robert Smith | 446 c901-2;446 c901 (Link to this contribution) I understand where the hon. Gentleman is trying to come from, but under the previous regime, a Commi...
Andrew Miller | 446 c902 (Link to this contribution) I know where I am coming from—it is where I am going to that sometimes proves a little difficult. In...
David Howarth | 446 c920 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right—the standing order does not provide that extra protection. However...
David Heath | 446 c920 (Link to this contribution) Another blocking mechanism can be deployed by a minority of one. It is often seen and heard on Frida...
David Howarth | 446 c920 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, that is a blocking minority of one from one political party. The purpose of new clause 14 i...
Roger Gale | 446 c920 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is kind in accepting interventions, but he has contradicted himself. He says that...
Andrew Miller | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) For clarification, the letter to which the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire(Mr. Heald) refer...
Oliver Heald | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) It is pretty discourteous for the matter to be left in that way, when I had specifically raised it i...
David Howarth | 446 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) At least the position of those Members would be better than it would be if the new clause is not acc...
Pat McFadden | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by offering the House a point of information relating to a point of order raised earlier...
Oliver Heald | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) The Minister may know that that has been the subject of discussion between one of the Ministers’ off...
Pat McFadden | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. I was trying to be helpful to the House by...
Christopher Chope | 446 c922 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that explanation. In summary, when he replied yesterday to my ques...
Pat McFadden | 446 c923 (Link to this contribution) What I have set out would be the intention in most cases, but there is the possibility that I outlin...
Roger Gale | 446 c922 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the letter that the Minister kindly sent to me earlier today, which is about powers ...
Pat McFadden | 446 c922 (Link to this contribution) With the Deputy Speaker’s permission, I am happy to do so. The legal effect of new clause 19 relate...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c924 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain the logic of that proposition? He rightly accepts that the Select Committe...
David Heath | 446 c923 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said that the Committee can reflect on any matter in reaching its recommendation. G...
Pat McFadden | 446 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) The statutory veto relates to the powers set out in the Bill. If it were operated, it would mean tha...
Robert Smith | 446 c923 (Link to this contribution) Having clarified that and confirmed that the evidence from the Department to the Select Committee on...
Pat McFadden | 446 c923 (Link to this contribution) Well, I think that that is what people call ““a stretch””, although I agree with the hon. Gentleman ...
Oliver Heald | 446 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that we are in danger of having too many veto proposals in the Bill? T...
David Heath | 446 c909 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but I simply do not agree with him. We need to set a precedent ...
Greg Knight | 446 c909 (Link to this contribution) I only want to correct what I think was a slip of the tongue. The hon. Gentleman said that he wanted...
David Heath | 446 c909 (Link to this contribution) I referred to new clause 14. I think that the right hon. Gentleman, who is the Chairman of Procedure...
Tony Wright | 446 c909-11 (Link to this contribution) There is, of course, a slight gap between the way in which we talk about Parliament and how it opera...
Greg Knight | 446 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak about Government amendment No. 46 and amendment (a) to it, which is in my name and t...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) It might help the House if I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the evidence that he is citing was...
Greg Knight | 446 c913 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that that is a valid point. The powers in the Bill may well have been narrowed, but th...
Alison Seabeck | 446 c913-4 (Link to this contribution) As a member of both the Regulatory Reform Committee and the Standing Committee that considered the B...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) I almost stopped trying to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I agreed with everything sa...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cannock Chase gave some candid views on how the House works in reality. We shoul...
Tony Wright | 446 c916 (Link to this contribution) Was not the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s reference to the political factors the key considerat...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c917 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to her new task. She is doing her best, with all these concessions, to sort o...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c917 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a point that I was never allowed to make in my previous incumbency, but none the less...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c917 (Link to this contribution) That is why the constraint on the Select Committee to make that recommendation has to be removed. If...
Roger Gale | 446 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has the text of the Standing Orders before him, and he is quite right. I do not h...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 446 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) I am being tempted to go into much wider issues on Supply days. That relates only to the Front Bench...
David Howarth | 446 c918-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with every word that the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) said, and...
Mark Fisher | 446 c940 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister is right, but it is very worrying that this is a fundamental parliamentary ...
Speaker | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) Order. Is the Minister giving way to the hon. Gentleman?
Mark Fisher | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point, but it does not address my point about where that is dealt with in the Bill. T...
Jonathan Djanogly | 446 c888 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Mark Harper | 446 c883-4 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the new clause has been welcomed by Members on both sides of the House. In Committ...
Speaker | 446 c934 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member, who is an experienced Member of the House, knows that, strictly speaking, that is n...
David Heath | 446 c880 (Link to this contribution) Of course we would love to have another go, because this has been such fun. May I bring the hon. Gen...
Pat McFadden | 446 c921 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest that we return to the issue at hand? Listening to the contributions on the veto power...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will understand that there are many potential gains that we can deliver if we mai...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 446 c960 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Let me begin by thanking a number of colle...
David Howarth | 446 c939 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, especially as doing so probably spoils his effort to make...
David Heath | 446 c935-7 (Link to this contribution) The matter of the implied repeal of the Bill of Rights is of some consequence, and I think that it m...
Charles Walker | 446 c879 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said ““no less than five years””. Did he mean to say that he would report back after no...
Charles Walker | 446 c915 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. and learned Friend concerned that the Government could lean on the more ambitious a...
Lynne Jones | 446 c900 (Link to this contribution) A ministerial undertaking is no substitute for stating something in the Bill. Government amendment N...
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