European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1647). Lords debate on a motion that an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty that the regulations be annulled. Motion debated and withdrawn.
European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008
Debates on delegated legislation on Tuesday, 14 October 2008,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Trefgarne.
The answering
member was Lord Bach.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
704 c667-80
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Norton of Louth | 704 c669-70 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, begin by welcoming the noble Lord, Lord Bach, to his position. That exhausts the p...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 704 c670-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would like to address a couple of points raised by this Prayer. First, is it reasonably ...
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Lord Trefgarne | 704 c671 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, may I ask him why he adopts such a cavalier approach to t...
Lord Trefgarne | 704 c667-8 (Link to this contribution)
rose to move that an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that the regulations, laid b...
Lord Trefgarne | 704 c668-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am interested to hear that. There is one precedent. I think I am right in saying that th...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 704 c671 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not expect that the argument advanced by the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, about people ab...
Lord McNally | 704 c671-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, there are problems as regards the argument expounded by the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. The ...
Lord Norton of Louth | 704 c672 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord is not addressing the issue that we raised. The problem is not the principl...
Lord McNally | 704 c672 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is why I look forward with more expectation and eagerness than usual to what I am sur...
Lord Kingsland | 704 c672-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Trefgarne on bringing this important matter to your Lo...
Lord Kingsland | 704 c674 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I concede to the noble Lord that that is true; but I was not asking him the question, I wa...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 704 c674 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, is as good a lawyer as anyone. What does he have in mind? ...
Lord McNally | 704 c674 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, come clean and say that he was hoping that no other h...
Lord Kingsland | 704 c676 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sure that the noble Lord has this matter in mind as he speaks, but can I remind him t...
Lord Bach | 704 c676 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is right, but in our view Standing Orders do not form part of the law of the United K...
Lord Kingsland | 704 c674-5 (Link to this contribution)
Not at all, my Lords. I have always been extremely relaxed about the European convention, although I...
Lord Bach | 704 c675-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken for the interesting and lively debate that we have...
Lord Kingsland | 704 c677 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister will give way as I should like to respond to the noble Lord,...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 704 c676 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, is not the point in answer to the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, that a constitutional conven...
Lord Bach | 704 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I am being slow. I am missing the noble Lord’s point. I would have thought that th...
Lord Norton of Louth | 704 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I understand the point the Minister is advancing, but the force of his argument would appl...
Lord Bach | 704 c679 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, I can, my Lords.
Lord Bach | 704 c679-80 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall try to explain Regulation 4—I know that the House is sitting late tonight. I think...
Lord Bach | 704 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I rely on the compromise that was reached between my noble and learned friend Lord Irvine ...
Lord Trefgarne | 704 c678-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, whatever may be the merits of the points made by the noble Lord, the fact is that heredita...
Lord Bach | 704 c679 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it cannot be a hybrid order, because this is a negative resolution. I make it absolutely c...
Lord Norton of Louth | 704 c678 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall seek to explain. If they were elected before 2004, they came in on the same basis ...
Lord Trefgarne | 704 c680 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bach, on his debut. If ever there was a case of making...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 704 c680 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now adjourn until 8.58 pm.
Moved accordingly, and, on Que...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 704 c671 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am not adopting a cavalier approach to anyone, least of all, unlike the movers of this M...
Lord Trefgarne | 704 c673 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, there would indeed be a clamour—from me.
Lord Kingsland | 704 c673-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that was a completely unrehearsed intervention by my noble friend. There is a simple solut...
Lord Norton of Louth | 704 c679 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I apologise if I have missed something that the Minister said—he may feel that it was enco...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 704 c679 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the note explains that because this is a negative resolution, no statement of compatibilit...
Lord Bach | 704 c668 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I did not mean to interrupt the noble Lord. I can answer this question now: my noble frien...
Lord Bach | 704 c677-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, was asking me the question. The noble Lord, L...
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