Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill [HL]
Debate on bills on Friday, 18 May 2007,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Baker of Dorking.
The answering
member was Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
692 c399-416
Session
2006-07
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 692 c414-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right, but if you tried to even up the size of that constitue...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 692 c414 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sorry, I could not resist that—I was an Education Minister.
The Bill raises some int...
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Lord Howard of Rising | 692 c411 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to disagree with the noble Lord, but I will move on.
Proportional representation is...
Lord Rennard | 692 c411 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord has the figures for 1997 completely the wrong way round. On the basis of ou...
Lord Howard of Rising | 692 c409-11 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to respond to this debate on behalf of the Opposition, the more...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c402 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not think that that is a view that the noble Lord shared when he was a Member of the ...
Lord Norton of Louth | 692 c406 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, he has missed the point that small constituencies and shi...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 692 c405-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly in the gap to give a traditional and perhaps rather more c...
Lord Norton of Louth | 692 c402-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend’s Bill. He is to be congratulated onhis initiative in br...
Lord Rennard | 692 c407-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Bill has a very worthy aim: reducing the number of Members ofthe House of Commons. Tha...
Lord Rennard | 692 c400 (Link to this contribution)
It is, my Lords.
Lord Norton of Louth | 692 c414 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I come back to an earlier point, because the Minister is about to conclude. One point that...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c415 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all the Peers who took part in this debate. I am encouraged by it. I am aware that...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 692 c411-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my right honourable friend has all of the attributes that the noble Lord, Lord Howard of R...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 692 c402 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does my noble friend not feel that this is a rather modest proposal considering that so ma...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c401-2 (Link to this contribution)
It is, my Lords. There are 14,300 more electors in an English seat than in a Welsh seat. That is ove...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 692 c406-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in principle, each House is entitled to discuss it. The key point is that it is for the ot...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 692 c407 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as my noble friend is speaking in the gap, he is restricted to four minutes. He has alread...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c400 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is astep forward, a little edge my way. Andrew Tyrie, a mainstream Conservative Membe...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c400-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am toldthat we have a few. He produced a documententitled Pruning the Politicians, in wh...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c407 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down—
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c415-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, yes, but he is also my friend. The door of policy is not closed, as I understand it, and t...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 692 c399-400 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.
It is interesting that today, in ...
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