Parliamentary search - Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

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730 c806-25

Session

2010-12

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Commons amendments

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House of Lords chamber

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill. Commons amendment. (Lords Minutes)
Thursday, 8 September 2011
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Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c806-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, during the passage of this legislation it has been evident that the Government have been p...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c806 (Link to this contribution) That this House do not insist on its Amendments 1, 2 and 9, to which the Commons have insisted on th...

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Lord Butler of Brockwell | 730 c809-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will not take up your Lordships’ time by repeating the arguments for the sunset clause w...

Lord Butler of Brockwell | 730 c809 (Link to this contribution) Leave out from ““House”” to end and insert ““do insist on its Amendments 1, 2 and 9 and do disagree ...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 730 c811-2 (Link to this contribution) While I appreciate the constructive response that the Minister gave to the proposals by this House t...

Lord Pannick | 730 c810-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Butler of Brockwell. Your Lordships will not want to hear l...

Lord Bach | 730 c819 (Link to this contribution) I disagree entirely with the noble Lord’s point. But I will ask why in that case he thinks that the ...

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames | 730 c818 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord help me on this? Does he agree that this sunset clause is not just a sunset clau...

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale | 730 c819 (Link to this contribution) We lost!

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c819 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, anyone who had never known any of the history of this, listening to the remarks of the nob...

Lord Alderdice | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, how can it be a fixed-term Parliament unless Members were elected to it as a fixed-term Pa...

Baroness Boothroyd | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister telling us that we do not scrutinise Bills before they come into operation? Is he su...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c819-21 (Link to this contribution) The argument that, because Labour lost, that devalues the principle is not one I have fully understo...

Lord Bach | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) Once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, it will be a fixed-term Parliament.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I look upon it as post-legislative scrutiny. You cannot scrutinise what you have legislate...

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 730 c814-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish simply to make one point which I consider, very humbly, to be a pertinent matter an...

Lord Armstrong of Ilminster | 730 c812-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for quoting my words from a different debate and I do not re...

Lord Bach | 730 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not intend to take up much time of the House. Our position remains the same. We suppo...

Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | 730 c817 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I listened with great attention to the Minister a moment ago and I think that I detected a...

Lord Alderdice | 730 c816-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with some care to what previous noble Lords have said. It has been very th...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 730 c816 (Link to this contribution) I am about to conclude. It is important to make these points because I believe that the amendment th...

Baroness Boothroyd | 730 c816 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I am sure that she was here when we had the Seco...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 730 c815-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the Motion of my noble and learned friend the Minister. Before I explain in brie...

Baroness Jay of Paddington | 730 c815 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, several noble Lords this evening have referred—somewhat kindly, I must say—to the report o...

Lord Alderdice | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry, but the reality is it is not a fixed-term Parliament. Members were elected to ...

Baroness Jay of Paddington | 730 c821 (Link to this contribution) I ask the noble Lord, through the Minister, whether it is therefore the Government’s position that a...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 730 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) That is not the case, as we know. I was making the point that this Parliament was not elected as a f...

Lord Butler of Brockwell | 730 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank those who have taken part in this debate. I particularly say to the noble Lord, Lord Alderdi...

Lord Grocott | 730 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot understand why the Government could not have done the simple thing for this House, and for ...

Subjects

General elections

Fixed-term parliaments

Dissolution

Sunset clauses

Legislation

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill 2010-12

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