Statement on the governance of Britain. (Inc ref to 3 consultation documents - Cm 7210, Cm 7235 and Cm 7239)
Governance of Britain
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
465 c407-22
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
The governance of Britain consultation paper: managing protest around Parliament.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
The governance of Britain consultation paper: judicial appointments.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
The governance of Britain consultation paper: war powers and treaties: limiting executive powers.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Command papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Jack Straw | 465 c407-10 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about our programme of constitutiona...
Speaker | 465 c411 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I must call on the Front Benchers. It is unfair; the hon. Gentleman is asking questions. I as...
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Lord Herbert of South Downs | 465 c410-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Lord Chancellor for giving me a brief early sight of his statement and for the delivery ...
Speaker | 465 c412 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I called on Government Ministers to limit their statements to 10 minutes. That happened in th...
Jack Straw | 465 c412-3 (Link to this contribution)
Let me try to deal briefly with those points. First, I regret the first point that the hon. Member f...
Speaker | 465 c413 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I am sorry to trouble the Secretary of State, but his Department has put out copies of the st...
Jack Straw | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution)
Let me just say in respect of the points raised by the hon. Gentleman that the EU treaty will be the...
David Heath | 465 c414-5 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, welcome the statement, and I would have welcomed early sight of the papers accompanying it. ...
Speaker | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I thought that I left the stopwatch when I left Rolls Royce, but I am on a stopwatch now. I m...
Alan Whitehead | 465 c413-4 (Link to this contribution)
I very much welcome the statement by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice and the...
Jack Straw | 465 c414 (Link to this contribution)
The documents are part of the review of the royal prerogative. We have been much informed by the rep...
Lord Cormack | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Lord Chancellor agree that there is all the difference in the world between orderly, peacef...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
We look forward to hearing from the right hon. Gentleman's Select Committee; I think that he would h...
Lord Beith | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the Government's acceptance of the Constitutional Affairs Committee's view that freedom of...
Jack Straw | 465 c415-6 (Link to this contribution)
We do not make specific proposals on that issue in these documents. There are proposals, which I dis...
Edward Leigh | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Secretary of State confirm that any proposed changes to the governance of the National Audi...
Jack Straw | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution)
I want to endorse the hon. Gentleman's last remarks. The answer to his first question is yes.
Julie Morgan | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, and particularly the announcements about freedom of info...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with the hon. Gentleman that there is indeed a difference. Whether the provisions will conti...
Fiona Mactaggart | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the Secretary of State's remarks about a more widely drawn judiciary, but I would like to ...
Jack Straw | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution)
I made a detailed report to the House in an oral statement just before the summer recess. The all-pa...
Mark Lazarowicz | 465 c417-8 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend made brief mention of the progress of the discussions on the reform of the Hous...
Andrew MacKay | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution)
May I put it to the Lord Chancellor that although his occasional busking at the Dispatch Box is attr...
Denis MacShane | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution)
Are we actually at war in Iraq? The Lord Chancellor says that he wants to look at extending the Free...
Jack Straw | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution)
I should have said that the consultation period on all the documents ends on 17 January, so it is pr...
John Bercow | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution)
That was 40 years ago.
Jack Straw | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution)
The answer to the second question is yes. I gave advance information about the contents of the docum...
William Cash | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution)
The Lord Chancellor makes a great deal of democracy. Does he agree that given the reform treaty—[Int...
Jack Straw | 465 c418-9 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed; I once wrote a long essay on that, but it was in English.
The document makes it clear that ...
Adam Price | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution)
Given the Government's keenness to involve the citizen in the wider debate, does he see merit in the...
Brian Binley | 465 c420 (Link to this contribution)
Do you know the answer?
Jack Straw | 465 c419-20 (Link to this contribution)
I have a bet at Ladbrokes, with extremely generous odds, on whether at any stage in the next 10 year...
Tony Baldry | 465 c420 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Lord Chancellor recognise that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would not have ...
Jack Straw | 465 c420 (Link to this contribution)
We will have to have another occasion to debate the justification for military action in respect of ...
Julian Lewis | 465 c420-1 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Lord Chancellor accept that when we exercise our right to free speech, whether in this Cham...
Jack Straw | 465 c421 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will indeed address that issue. If I may say so, the hon. Ge...
Brian Binley | 465 c421-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Lord Chancellor for his statement. I particularly welcome his comment that his motivatio...
Peter Bone | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution)
The Lord Chancellor said that the Prime Minister is making a statement elsewhere about the freedom o...
Jack Straw | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution)
I understand and am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments, which my right hon. Friend the Home ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the announcement that we will not restrict media access to coroners' courts, which will ce...
Jack Straw | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of involving people better in the decision...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made proposals for change, particularly to give, as it w...
Jack Straw | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is indeed making a speech elsewhere shortly. One reason why ...
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