Parliamentary search - House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

532 c711-24

Session

2010-12

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment) Bill.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Edward Leigh | 532 c715 (Link to this contribution) I think that new Members are under a misapprehension. They think that if they ever vote against the ...

Peter Bone | 532 c715 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. A yes-person who always agrees with the Whips will never be a ...

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Sarah Wollaston | 532 c714 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that that leads to a form of creeping patronage? Mechanisms such as negati...

Peter Bone | 532 c715 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been elected to the House to be a Member of Parliament and to use her own judgmen...

Peter Bone | 532 c714 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits on an important point. One of the problems in this Parliament is that someone wh...

Chuka Umunna | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) I am a former PPS and a shadow Minister.

Chuka Umunna | 532 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, particularly as, I must confess, I was...

Peter Bone | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention from, I think, a Parliamentary Private Secretary.

Steve Baker | 532 c715 (Link to this contribution) I have great sympathy with what my hon. Friend says, and I was standing in about this place when I f...

Peter Bone | 532 c715 (Link to this contribution) Unusually, I disagree with my hon. Friend. If we go back to the years of Wilberforce, or the time of...

Peter Bone | 532 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. It is a great pleasure, and somewhat of a s...

Thomas Docherty | 532 c712 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I have to disagree with the hon. Gentleman about the wonderful job that the Whips Office ...

Peter Bone | 532 c714 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right. I think it was the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw), when h...

Christopher Chope | 532 c714 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support my hon. Friend's Bill, but does it deal with the problem of the Committee of Sele...

Peter Bone | 532 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) Time is limited but I will address that later if I get to it. This is not an attempt to denigrate o...

Philip Hollobone | 532 c713 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Is not the fact that Members do not know which way to ...

Peter Bone | 532 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) As usual, my right hon. Friend—he should be right honourable, but he is in fact my hon. Friend—is ri...

Philip Hollobone | 532 c714 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying my hon. Friend's powerful contribution immensely. Does he agree that the better that B...

Peter Bone | 532 c721 (Link to this contribution) Indeed it does, but I am abolishing those as well. The hon. Gentleman should not worry about that; t...

Chuka Umunna | 532 c721 (Link to this contribution) No. I simply wanted to make the point that the other place has Whips too.

Peter Bone | 532 c721 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish this point. If the other place improves scrutiny by having less whipping, surely...

David Nuttall | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) The Whips Office would submit that it performs another function—a pastoral role for Members of Parli...

Peter Bone | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits on a good point that I am going to deal with a little later. Clearly, though, th...

Sarah Wollaston | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. In these challenging financial times, has he estimated how much this would c...

Peter Bone | 532 c719-21 (Link to this contribution) Now Madam Deputy Speaker—no, I am not going down that route. I am saying that professional help shou...

Chuka Umunna | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that we put in place a system of counselling for Members of Parliam...

Peter Bone | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point that has been used as the sole argument for keeping the Whi...

Peter Bone | 532 c717-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is not quite correct. The Question on the motion was put, but because nobody expresse...

Peter Bone | 532 c719 (Link to this contribution) Oh, ladies first.

Chuka Umunna | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) Again, I take issue with what the hon. Gentleman says, because it ignores developments in the House ...

Peter Bone | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) A shadow Minister—somebody who is obviously going up the greasy pole. The hon. Gentleman asks a very...

Philip Hollobone | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) rightly states, Select Committees in this Parliament ha...

Peter Bone | 532 c716 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. This is a totally different Parliament. There has been huge ...

David Nuttall | 532 c717 (Link to this contribution) If I remember correctly, there was no vote that day. Am I right in my recollection?

Peter Bone | 532 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. Although we may take two steps forward, we sometimes take one step back. ...

Peter Bone | 532 c721 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and as usual he is at one with the Prime Minister in wanting der...

Christopher Chope | 532 c721 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend finishes, let me say that I am absolutely delighted with his speech. I am sure...

David Heath | 532 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted at least to start to respond to the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) and his ...

Helen Jones | 532 c721-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) on getting his Bill debated and on the c...

Subjects

House of Commons

Disqualification

Members

Ministers

Whips

Legislation

House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment) Bill 2010-12

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