Parliamentary search - House of Lords Bill [HL]

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

708 c431-96

Session

2008-09

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings
Queen's consent

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

House of Lords Bill (HL).
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Grocott | 708 c439-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly support this Bill and I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Steel, characteristic...

Lord Low of Dalston | 708 c452-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble lord, Lord Steel, on his stamina in bringing the Bill forward in ...

Show all contributions (62)

Lord Lea of Crondall | 708 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on his expertise and diplomacy, one ...

Lord Norton of Louth | 708 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard some excellent speeches in support of this measure. There is clearly support...

Lord Goodhart | 708 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am one of those who previously opposed the Bill on the grounds that removing some flaws ...

Lord Jay of Ewelme | 708 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on his tenacity in bringing the Bill before us ...

Lord Warner | 708 c447-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is 10 years since I spoke here on House of Lords reform. I did so shortly after finishi...

Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 708 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been observed that there is nothing new to be said about the subject of House of Lo...

Bishop of Chelmsford | 708 c444-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a member in this House of a very small, distinguished and select band of people. That...

Lord Lipsey | 708 c469-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, has just demonstrated sharply how wise the Appointments C...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 708 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Steel, introduced his Bill, he pointed out that this was a Secon...

Lord Selsdon | 708 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) It probably would be, my Lords. So it is not the money. Actually, a high proportion of the cost of y...

Lord Strathclyde | 708 c472 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely!

Lord Selsdon | 708 c472 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is much better than having a general purpose debate. I get terribly hurt by being call...

Viscount Astor | 708 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, both main parties have now signed up to the reform of this House following the next genera...

Viscount Astor | 708 c457 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is true that there is a majority in another place for an elected second Chamber. That i...

Lord Cobbold | 708 c457 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak once again in support of this Bill and I hope that this...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 708 c457-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the circumstances in which we debate the Bill today are quite different from those in whic...

Lord Higgins | 708 c459-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the Bill. Since we debated the original Bill of the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on 3...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 708 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have to declare an interest: I like Mr Straw. I worked for him when he was Foreign Secre...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 708 c462-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this match has now entered its second half and the current score is 18-2 to the noble Lord...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 708 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I attended this debate not to speak but to listen. I was greatly impressed by the speech o...

Lord Tyler | 708 c465-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity that my noble friend’s Bill gives us all to keep up the pressure...

Lord McNally | 708 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may give a Gypsy’s warning. It would be unacceptable if those paragons of virtue...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c491 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that the Government would wish to discuss with noble Lords any matters to do wit...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 708 c490 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for intervening at this stage of the Minister’s speech. Nobody questions the v...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c490 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, surely that is what the proposals in the White Paper are about. They are about building on...

Lord Strathclyde | 708 c482-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is fast becoming an annual occasion. It is not quite so grand as the state opening an...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c486-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on his patience and determination, which ...

Baroness Jay of Paddington | 708 c491 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend, but I wonder whether he can help me on this. He was encour...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 708 c491 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for intervening. The noble Lord talks about a strong case. Is there not a stro...

Lord Gordon of Strathblane | 708 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I echo the noble Baroness and I hope that the Minister, if his brief currently states the ...

Lord Northbrook | 708 c475-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support in principle those parts of the Bill that would establish a statutory Appointmen...

Lord Gilbert | 708 c477 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the things that one notices about debates in your Lordships’ House is that words th...

Baroness Miller of Hendon | 708 c474 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Steel...

Lord McNally | 708 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know how to win over an audience, do not worry. The noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, often...

Lord Lucas | 708 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, has not the climate changed? Last time we debated the Bill of the noble Lord, Lord Steel, ...

Lord Gilbert | 708 c477 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed, my Lords. That is all that I wish to say.

Lord McNally | 708 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my first duty is to compliment noble Lords on keeping to the stricture of the noble Lord, ...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, but he repeats as a sort of dogma that the two major pla...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not sure that I accept my noble friend’s proposition. I have said that the Government...

Lord Higgins | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord cannot have been listening to today’s debate, the whole emphasis of which w...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) Which matters are urgent, my Lords? I believe that the disciplinary measures are urgent, and my nobl...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the answer is that this was in the previous manifesto.

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 708 c492 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we should allow the Minister to finish.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c493 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was rather enjoying this. Noble Lords have ignored the fact that obtaining universal agr...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 708 c493-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think we all agree that we have had a remarkably good and, indeed, enjoyable debate. I t...

Lord Tunnicliffe | 708 c431 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are 34 speakers signed up for today’s Second Reading debate. I should advise the Hou...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 708 c431 (Link to this contribution) That this Bill be read a second time.

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 708 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for many reasons it is a pleasure to follow the brief but important speech by the noble Ba...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 708 c434 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in all seriousness, if we are looking forward to an elected House at some point in the fut...

Baroness Jay of Paddington | 708 c434-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not spoken on House of Lords reform in your Lordships’ House for several years but ...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 708 c431-4 (Link to this contribution) "I beg to move that this Bill be read a second time"; that ritual phrase has rather more meaning on ...

Lord Higgins | 708 c471 (Link to this contribution) That’s one pension.

Baroness D'Souza | 708 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is thought by some that there are just too many Cross-Benchers. That may be the case bu...

Earl of Caithness | 708 c441-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had some sympathy with the noble Lord, Lord Steel, when he told us last year that he was...

Lord Selsdon | 708 c471 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am rather enjoying myself. This is exactly the sort of debate that I would expect to get...

Lord Selsdon | 708 c472 (Link to this contribution) It is a fantastic document, my Lords, and says everything that you could wish to have in it, except ...

Lord Walton of Detchant | 708 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is almost 20 years since I was privileged to become a Member of your Lordships’ House, ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly confirm the first part of the question, on the Government looking at the matte...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 708 c491 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Campbell of Alloway, are always considered very caref...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 708 c431 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, ha...

Subjects

Criminal records

Accountability

Age

Costs

Attendance

By-elections

Elections

House of Lords

Eligibility

Disqualification

Hereditary peers