Parliamentary search - Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

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2010-12

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory notes also published (HL Bill 26-EN).
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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Lord Strathclyde | 724 c335 (Link to this contribution) That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.

Lord Strathclyde | 724 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord McNally I beg to move that the House do now again resolv...

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Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c336 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I first associate myself with the remarks of the Leader in relation to the staff, who play...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c340 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not impossible to answer. The estimate that I gave of the number of existing seats that we...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 724 c340 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble and learned Lord give us any idea of roughly how many constituencies would be, so to s...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c336-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we agree with the principle of creating more equal-sized seats, but we have practical conc...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c336 (Link to this contribution) 63A: Clause 11, page 9, leave out lines 20 to 27 and insert— ““2 (1) No constituency shall have an e...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c340 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it would. Perhaps I may write to the noble Lord with the figures in relation to ...

Lord Tyler | 724 c340 (Link to this contribution) The second part the amendment of the noble and learned Lord, which is very interesting and I hope wi...

Baroness Hayman | 724 c340 (Link to this contribution) I have to inform the Committee that if the amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 64 to 66...

Lord St John of Fawsley | 724 c341 (Link to this contribution) I feel rather dismayed at the enthusiasm with which my suggestion has been achieved. Do not resist t...

Lord Lipsey | 724 c341-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to support the amendment moved by my noble friend and to express my own gratitude f...

Lord St John of Fawsley | 724 c340-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in this new atmosphere of sweetness and light created by the shade of Matthew Arnold, perh...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 724 c341 (Link to this contribution) I assure the noble Lord, Lord St John of Fawsley, that my comments were not intended in any way to d...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 724 c346 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl should know that, although I have changed parties, I have kept very much the same pol...

Lord Williamson of Horton | 724 c344 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope to establish a precedent by posing a direct question to the Minister. That would be...

Lord Crickhowell | 724 c342-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must apologise for not being in the Chamber when the noble and learned Lord began this d...

Earl of Onslow | 724 c346 (Link to this contribution) If this is not an example of a filibuster, I do not know what is. Dillon and the people who objected...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 724 c344-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my noble and learned friend on introducing the amendment with an analysis that was ex...

Lord Crickhowell | 724 c356 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble and learned friend for what he has said. I hope that h...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c356 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope the House will understand that there is not really much that I can add in response ...

Lord Lipsey | 724 c355 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. Indeed, the 10 per cent rule does not entirely avoid the contravening of county boun...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c350 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can answer the noble Lord before I give way to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. That leads t...

Lord Pannick | 724 c350 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord give way?

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c349 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Reid, sets up and explains the competing issues quite succinctly. I am trying t...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 724 c349 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister recognise that in addressing one problem in a fair system—arithmetical equality, w...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c350-1 (Link to this contribution) I perhaps misunderstood what I was being asked to do. I thought that I was being asked to give a com...

Lord Pannick | 724 c350 (Link to this contribution) I am not asking the Minister to agree to it; I am asking whether he is prepared to consider it serio...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c350 (Link to this contribution) Tempting though it is to accede to that immediately, I cannot, standing here today, give that undert...

Lord Pannick | 724 c350 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister recognise that there is concern on all sides of the House about the excessive rigi...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 724 c352 (Link to this contribution) My experience is not related exclusively to Hackney, where I was born and brought up. Wherever peopl...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to be encouraged by the tone of the response from the noble and learned Lord, but I fea...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c352 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend speaks with feeling about the area that he knows and has served so well. I do not w...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the noble Earl thinks that. He is being a little too impatient, if I may say so. The...

Earl of Onslow | 724 c352 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has already gone quite far. He said that he will draw attention to it. Do we need what ...

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 724 c353 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not as if I had any intention of wishing to be included in that distinguished compan...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c353 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may assist if I indicate the Opposition’s position. I am grateful for what the noble an...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 724 c354 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the basis that the noble and learned Lord has signalled that he accepts the broad appro...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 724 c353-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I crave the indulgence of the Committee for two minutes to make one simple point to the Mi...

Lord Lipsey | 724 c354-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would not like your Lordships to think that I have not been sufficiently assiduous in my...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c355 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I can still intervene on my noble friend before he sits down, but I put the po...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c347-8 (Link to this contribution) If the House feels that that would be helpful, I certainly am willing to do so. This amendment, whic...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 724 c348 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is arguing that the amendment is not quite right, would it be possible to put forwar...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 724 c347 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree and have already said several things along the lines of what my noble friend has ju...

Bishop of Chester | 724 c347 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am something of a virginal creature when it comes to the conventions and procedures of t...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c349 (Link to this contribution) This point may be what the noble Lord, Lord Reid, wanted to pick up on. I tried to indicate that we ...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c349 (Link to this contribution) I would like to draw the Committee’s attention to the fact that there are already within the Bill fa...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 724 c349 (Link to this contribution) Those criteria exist in the Bill, but they are all subject to the 5 per cent limit. That is our argu...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 724 c346 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for his kind support. I come back to what the noble Earl,...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c347 (Link to this contribution) We are having a very constructive debate on this amendment. I appeal to all my colleagues to conduct...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 724 c346 (Link to this contribution) The illustration that my noble friend has given is absolutely apposite. What was being discussed thr...

Lord Lipsey | 724 c354 (Link to this contribution) 64: Clause 11, page 9, line 21, leave out ““95%”” and insert ““90%””

Lord Crickhowell | 724 c356 (Link to this contribution) 65A: Clause 11, page 9, line 22, at end insert— ““except in Wales where it shall be— ( ) no less tha...

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010-12

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