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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 1 March 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Wallace of Tankerness. The answering member was Lord Falconer of Thoroton.
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
725 c929-75, c995-1048 
Session
2010-12
Department
Deputy Prime Minister
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory notes also published (HL Bill 40-EN).
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Cormack | 725 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise in a state of some trepidation. It is almost 41 years since I last made a maiden sp...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 725 c1014-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, as she thoughtfully made the ...

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Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 725 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, restoring public confidence in our political system is important, is something on which al...
Lord Dobbs | 725 c1022-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure for me to be able to participate in a debate which has seen the maiden sp...
Lord Touhig | 725 c1019-22 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like many noble Lords I pay tribute to the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Cormack. ...
Baroness Jay of Paddington | 725 c1002-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join noble Lords all around the House in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, on...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 725 c999-1002 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel privileged to join all those who have tendered their congratulations to the noble L...
Lord Morgan | 725 c1010-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very enjoyable debate, notable for the criticism from eminent Conservatives: the nob...
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 725 c1007-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that this Bill and the principle that it embodies represent a significant and be...
Lord McAvoy | 725 c1024-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will bear in mind the time and the fact that many more experienced colleagues than me ha...
Lord Greaves | 725 c1026-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was interested to hear that the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy, thinks that we will be able to ...
Lord Bach | 725 c1036-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, here we are again, less than two weeks have passed and here we are, debating another const...
Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 725 c1033-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be very brief because most points have already been made. I start by echoing what ...
Lord Plant of Highfield | 725 c1031-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my voice to all those who welcomed the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and congratulate hi...
Lord Howard of Rising | 725 c1030-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must first apologise to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, for miss...
Lord Greaves | 725 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that people in my part of the world are any more stupid than anywhere else, but score...
Lord Greaves | 725 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that correction but the noble and learned Lord allowed me to use the words. I beli...
Lord Grocott | 725 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my noble friend will give way for what I hope he will think is a helpful suggestion...
Lord Bach | 725 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is certainly right in one regard; it was not an election winner. On the other hand, ...
Lord Greaves | 725 c1038 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is having his bit of fun. I think he has come to the end of it now. It is of course a...
Lord Bach | 725 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I will of course be more than happy to answer the noble Lord’s question. I was waiting for it. We ha...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c1040-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join those who have indicated that this has been a very good debate. The House has had t...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c1043-6 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to cover quite a lot of ground. I hope that I can do justice to the many important contr...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and that was the point that I think the noble and learned Lord raised in his speech. What ha...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Am I right in saying that the election took place at the beginning of 1924 and Baldwin’s Government ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c1047 (Link to this contribution) That is not the position, because the Bill provides for a 14-day period following a vote of no confi...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I said that that was what is envisaged because the proposition with which one has to deal is that th...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it makes it much more of a process and an abuse of that process would be seen. However, as...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 725 c946-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the first time for many years that I rise to my feet recalling that I am formally ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c938 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely true, the Bill was given extra time at Committee—a Committee of the Whole House. I ...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c938-46 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, as the lead Minister on ...
Lord Morris of Aberavon | 725 c937 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. This is an intrinsically important point. In all our experiences, a v...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House of Commons would determine this. As the noble Lord, Lord Richard, said, the Gove...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c937 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to make some progress, because I have been speaking for a while. I am sure that we will ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c929-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, ha...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c931-3 (Link to this contribution) I think the last October general election was in 1974, which was some 36 years ago. I have no doubt ...
Lord Wigley | 725 c933 (Link to this contribution) On the interplay and the coinciding every twentieth year, which might be at the end of the first cyc...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c933-5 (Link to this contribution) I readily understand the point made by the noble Lord. He is right to point out that, although it wo...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c935 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that, if the 1997 general election had been held under AV, the Labour Gove...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c936 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the opportunity will be there for Parliament—to those elected to the other place—to see wh...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not in a position to confirm that because it is highly speculative as to whether that would hav...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c937 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that Government will require a confidence vote of Members of the House of Commons. It is t...
Lord Richard | 725 c937 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if there is a period of 14 days in which discussions are taking place, you may end up at t...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c937 (Link to this contribution) We will no doubt come back to this, but I would be grateful if noble Lords would allow me to make so...
Lord Norton of Louth | 725 c995-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, by the end of the speech of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, I had a...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 725 c971-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before indicating my thoughts about the Bill, perhaps I may say gently to the Deputy Prime...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 725 c965-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, express great appreciation of the maiden speech of our new colleague, the noble Lo...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 725 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, on his maiden speech. I note wit...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 725 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) Minus three, jolly good. Can someone just spell out what the scenario would have been then? Who woul...
Lord Empey | 725 c959 (Link to this contribution) I sit on an institution that has a four-year cycle, and I assure the noble Lord and the House that i...
Lord Grocott | 725 c959 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly prefer a four-year cycle to a five-year cycle, but my strong view is that there is...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 725 c959-62 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as we set out today on proceedings on this important Bill, those on the Pensions Bill set ...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 725 c962-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps the wisest words in the English language are those of Oliver Cromwell, which we ca...
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster | 725 c969-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I echo those who have expressed their pleasure at the arrival of the noble Lord, Lord Corm...
Lord Grocott | 725 c956-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, not for the first time in this Parliament do I find myself urging the Government to take c...
Lord Rennard | 725 c952 (Link to this contribution) I want to address a couple of issues if I may. I note that the noble Baroness is due to make her rem...
Lord Rennard | 725 c951 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for that.
Lord Rennard | 725 c951 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, early in my remarks I said that there is merit in the case for four years or for five year...
Lord Rooker | 725 c951 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the noble Lord has just said. He has made a specific and direct link between...
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | 725 c954-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure and an honour to be the first to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Cormac...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I did not say, I am afraid, it had ““a high-minded aim””. I said there is very little to be said for...
Lord Rennard | 725 c949-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we had quite a substantial discussion on fixed-term Parliaments in the debate on the graci...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 725 c931 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister now able to answer a question that he was not able to answer at the informal meeting...
Lord Richard | 725 c936 (Link to this contribution) This is the point in the Bill with which I have the most difficulty. Why on earth should a Governmen...
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Legislatures
General elections
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Dissolution
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Legislation
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill 2010-12
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