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Scotland Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Thursday, 26 January 2012, in the House of Lords.
Scotland Bill. Lords committee stage first day. Amendment to the motion that the House resolve itself into a Committee debated and withdrawn. Clauses 1 to 9 agreed to, with clause 3 agreed to as amended. New clause under consideration.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
734 c1161-98, 1210-72 
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2010-12
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Scotland Office
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Constitution Select Committee (HL) seventeenth report on the Scotland Bill.
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Hughes of Woodside | 734 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree and, although I do not know whether it is intentional, I think that Alex Salmond ...
Lord Sewel | 734 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for a number of reasons, I am not particularly keen for the 1998 Act to be amended, but I ...

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Lord Hughes of Woodside | 734 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to follow my noble friend on the point about how we are going to have discussions w...
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 734 c1175 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord takes his seat, will he comment on what appears to be a strategy by ...
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 734 c1173-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the result of last year’s election in Scotland produced two significant developments, whic...
Lord Singh of Wimbledon | 734 c1179 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I follow on the theme of the importance of the tone of the debate. We all know the story o...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, although I agree with many of the arguments advanced by my noble friend Lord Forsyth, I am...
Lord Empey | 734 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have great sympathy with the proposal of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, because it appear...
Lord Sanderson of Bowden | 734 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord agree that the time for an enabling Bill, because I think he is going down that ...
Lord Sewel | 734 c1176 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, as always, makes an interesting and important point. At this stage, I am not prepare...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord, who is being very generous, but we have just had a refe...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that intervention. I am not going to go after the Royal Bank of Scotland beca...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what the Secretary of State for Scotland has said, but what the First Minister said is...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1171 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, anyone concerned with the question will take great note of what the Electoral Commission sa...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 734 c1172 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the noble Lord remembers—I thought it was one of my most polished impromptus and...
Bishop of Chester | 734 c1172-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope I can be forgiven, as a Sassenach bishop, for making a brief contribution. When I g...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 734 c1171 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am ashamed, as a Scotsman and a Scots unionist, that it took a Welshman to make that poi...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1171 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. He may know the answer to his question but maybe ...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 734 c1172 (Link to this contribution) It is a question that could be raised again, given that we have a legislative workload on Scotland a...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1172 (Link to this contribution) Could I ask the noble Lord about the interesting argument that he is developing about the importance...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) I recall the kind of situation that the noble Lord, Lord McConnell, suggests. That emphasises that t...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I have considerable respect for my noble and learned friend, and perhaps I may ask him to answer a s...
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale | 734 c1191 (Link to this contribution) The Minister advised that at some stage, perhaps not today but in the future, that process could inv...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1193 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the point on Section 30 orders is clear—it is in statute. Statute law requires the consent...
Lord Sewel | 734 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble and learned Lord for giving way. So far as I can remember, and I may well be wrong...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I sought to indicate that if discussions are going on, it might be premature to go ahead w...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to press my noble and learned friend. I am asking not about the negotiations but about th...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 734 c1197 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may be for the convenience of the House if I explain an arrangement that has been agree...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1193-5 (Link to this contribution) That accords with my recollection. Given the limitations on amendments tabled at Third Reading in yo...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1195-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a really good debate. My view that the debate would take half an hour has not ...
Earl of Mar and Kellie | 734 c1180 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when we considered the Scotland Bill 12 or 13 years ago, the late Lord Mackay of Ardbreckn...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1181 (Link to this contribution) It is a debatable point whether the achievement of getting rid of Teddy Taylor was better than getti...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1181-4 (Link to this contribution) The margin of winning may have been very narrow but I certainly know where I stand. I am happy to de...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1184 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is making a very interesting and important speech, and I do not want to ruin his thre...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1184-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for his question and I shall endeavour, if I may, to deal with those...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1188-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by thanking my noble friend Lord Forsyth for moving this amendment. He questions w...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my noble and learned friend can help me on one point. He has been very generous in agreeing ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) I was going to deal with that matter later. The noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, also made reference to...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1169 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly what the cybernats say. Is it not to try and shut us up that they are saying that?
Lord Wigley | 734 c1169 (Link to this contribution) Well, it is for noble Lords to decide for themselves whether the noises made in this Chamber and hea...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise with some trepidation, as I did at Second Reading, to intervene but briefly in this...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1170 (Link to this contribution) Of course the definition of ““independent”” is certain to be central to the debate, but all that arg...
Lord Gordon of Strathblane | 734 c1170 (Link to this contribution) On a point of clarification, I would vote yes to Scotland being an independent country. We are indep...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1169 (Link to this contribution) No, indeed, it is not to shut anybody up but to raise the question that every noble Lord or noble Ba...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 734 c1168-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy for the position that the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, has so...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1167 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely—and, like every other Bill, it is important that we give it detailed consideration. Like ...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1164-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that Alex Salmond would like being compared with Moses. After all, Moses never got to...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1166 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord recall that I shall always be grateful to the Scottish Nationalists for bringing...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1166 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. That is something else we agree on. Like the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, we Labour people keep...
Lord Hughes of Woodside | 734 c1167 (Link to this contribution) Would my noble friend remind the House that the Bill was passed by the elected House of Commons in t...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) It is down for next Thursday as well. Sometimes I think that the Whips on both sides have got it in ...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1161-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by thanking my noble friends the Leader of the House and the Chief Whip for their ...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1161 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the Motion ““That the House do now resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill””,...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1219-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to the amendment in this group standing in my name and that of my noble and ...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a second. The same problem arose in the original Welsh legislation—the noble Lor...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) I take that, but what they cannot do in Wales and not only can but actually do in Scotland is stand ...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1218 (Link to this contribution) It was not exactly the same in Wales. The circumstances are different in that there are four Members...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1217 (Link to this contribution) That was what led to the change in Wales. There were three defeated candidates in one constituency a...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1216-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Lord Chairman. I am really grateful to you. You are almost a relative. I have great respe...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has raised two very important, if minor points. We have to remember that wh...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1221 (Link to this contribution) However, I regret that in this case I cannot support my noble friend’s amendment. If there is a misc...
Baroness Fookes | 734 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should explain to the noble Lord that we have to agree that Clause 2 stand part of the Bil...
Baroness Fookes | 734 c1215 (Link to this contribution) The Question is that Clause 2 stand part of the Bill.
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1215 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will certainly write to confirm, but I can seek to indicate that the rules regarding the...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for giving way. From the way in which his voice changed,...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1214 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, that would not be possible, as eligibility matters will remain reserved. I hope that o...
Lord Sewel | 734 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may make one point. I do not want to keep on bringing the debate back to the present First...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1212-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Browne, for using the clause stand part debate to allow us to...
Lord Lang of Monkton | 734 c1210-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I made the mistake before we started today’s business of having a brief word with the Mini...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1215 (Link to this contribution) 1: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause— ““Regional vacancies: individual candidates (1) ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1228-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it might be said that by moving the amendment—and even by discussing it, let alone coming ...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1229-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confessed that I knew nothing about it, but it seems a very sensible proposal. I have in...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1229 (Link to this contribution) As always, the noble Lord is perceptive. I was going to come on to say that but will say it now. I p...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 734 c1230 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I would like to ask a very brief question to the Minister in this connection. During the C...
Lord Stephen | 734 c1230 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree very much with the first contribution that the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, made. Thi...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1230-1 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time that I have spoken at this stage of the debate, so I renew my declaration of ...
Baroness Randerson | 734 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can add to the amount the noble Lord has learnt today. It was not really the case that the...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful. Every day I come to work in your Lordships’ House I learn something, and that is...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord aware that the Conservative Party in Scotland had precisely the opposite rule—that...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1226 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Section 113 of the Scotland Act 1998 makes provision about the scope of subordinate legisl...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1226 (Link to this contribution) 3: Clause 3, page 3, line 25, leave out from ““powers)”” to end of line 34 and insert ““after subsec...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1225-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as always, that was a really helpful reply from the Minister. We are now getting used to h...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1223-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in introducing his amendment, the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, has given us an opportunity to...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1227-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Steel. I can indeed confirm that he made representat...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1228 (Link to this contribution) 6: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause— ““Sitting calendar (1) Schedule 3 to the 1998 Ac...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1227 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the Government for including in the Bill the second part of this cla...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1267-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know my limitations and that I will be unable to match the gratitude of the noble Lord, ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1269-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, has generated a considerable amount o...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a very lively and well informed debate, considering that we started over seven...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1263-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope I can persuade the noble Baroness to be a bit braver. We should not be too concerne...
Lord Empey | 734 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may say to the noble Lord that there is no perfect system. We use STV for local government...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I will take that as a speech in favour of first past the post. I should declare an interest because ...
Lord Maxton | 734 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Of course, we know the system that was described in Scotland. In 2007, the name on the list was Alex...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish that I had been sharp enough to have worked that out in response to the noble Lord, Lord Empe...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 734 c1266-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have just a few remarks to make on my noble friend’s amendment. I remember the then lead...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 734 c1262-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can put on the record now that right from the start of the discussions about the Scottis...
Lord Stephen | 734 c1263 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Baroness be prepared to take a different view if the Scottish Government were in fav...
Lord Maxton | 734 c1262 (Link to this contribution) Of course, if the Government that the noble Lord supports have their way, we may well have a fifth s...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1262 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord must not tempt me to get on to that. Four is more than enough. That is in itself a ve...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) That anticipates another point. Whoever was the architect—I think that it was Henry McLeish and othe...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Browne, I will show some gratitude to the noble Lord for his v...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I was commending the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, and David Cameron earlier for not being party politic...
Lord Maxton | 734 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Some of us on the convention argued for first past the post under any circumstances. The then leader...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1259-60 (Link to this contribution) I treat the noble Lord, Lord Steel, as a friend of mine; in fact, he was at the party as well. He wi...
Lord Stephen | 734 c1260 (Link to this contribution) Not having been invited to the birthday party, can I, perhaps unfairly, point out that the voting sy...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1259 (Link to this contribution) That was your mistake: if you had done, you might not have got elected.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1257 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to do as the noble Duke, the Duke of Montrose, instructs me. After all, one of his a...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1257-9 (Link to this contribution) My history is wrong; I shall have to check with the noble Duke afterwards. The amendment would set ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1256 (Link to this contribution) 9: Clause 7, page 6, line 13, leave out ““Presiding Officer shall publish notice of the reference”” ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1256-7 (Link to this contribution) 12: Clause 7, page 6, line 36, at end insert— ““(d) provide that an order under subsection (6) may b...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1257 (Link to this contribution) 17: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— ““Review of electoral system for the Scottish P...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1257 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must say that I found the previous debate fascinating. I do not think that I understood ...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 734 c1256 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble and learned friend very much indeed for accepting the principle of the amendment. I...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1251 (Link to this contribution) The noble and learned Lord is right. We cannot speculate on what happens in an Administration of who...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1251 (Link to this contribution) Could I clarify something which I think I asked? I am not entirely sure that I have got it over. On ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can clarify for my noble friend that Section 31 of the Scotland Act 1998 is relevant in th...
Lord Stephen | 734 c1250 (Link to this contribution) My point is that when my noble and learned friend and I were in government, I recall that we went to...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I was not quite sure if the Minister was now coming to an end. I wanted to press him on one point. W...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, what we have here is a better outcome than what was there before. We reflected on what had b...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1251 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. He will understand why I seek to intervene at this stage. I think it ...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 734 c1254-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I am interrupting at the wrong point but, after listening to the past hour of ...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1254 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble and learned Lord for his explanation and his offer of a letter, which will help. W...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 734 c1243 (Link to this contribution) 8: Clause 7, page 6, line 13, leave out ““The Presiding Officer”” and insert ““A law officer making ...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1243-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this group includes a notice in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Browne about Clau...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 734 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 8 and 11. In seeking to speak earlier, I was confusing Clause 7...
Lord Stephen | 734 c1249 (Link to this contribution) Before moving on, might the noble and learned Lord at this stage or later in his remarks take the op...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1247-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been amply demonstrated by the remarks of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Boyd, th...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1249 (Link to this contribution) I always wonder what is meant by legal advice—legal opinion from a counsel, or whatever. Let us take...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1249 (Link to this contribution) To take the first part of the question, about the law officers, it is part of the Ministerial Code. ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1250 (Link to this contribution) Is it not reasonable to assume that if a law officer states a legal opinion in the course of a lectu...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1249 (Link to this contribution) A public lecture is clearly not the same as advice that counsel would give to his or her client. Thi...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1250 (Link to this contribution) I express the view of the United Kingdom Government; I shall leave it at that. There is good reason ...
Lord Sanderson of Bowden | 734 c1237-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I raise one point on the amendment, which is slightly wide of the purpose and message of t...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 734 c1237 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would not like it to be thought that the views expressed in the previous two interventio...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) I have found this debate very helpful, although it pointed out that my amendment is less than perfec...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has tabled an amendment on this issue that we will come to. I suspect that the accou...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1241 (Link to this contribution) Could my noble and learned friend help with the point that was raised by my noble friend the Duke of...
Duke of Montrose | 734 c1240-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps my noble and learned friend could help me. As time has passed and habit has develo...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in responding to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, I am very tempted to...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 734 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we recognise the frustrations that have been expressed here, especially that this House an...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1238 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, just to show that the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, and I have not formed some kind of allianc...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 734 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may make a brief intervention in support of my noble friend’s amendment. I, too, should de...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1231-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment, which was tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, would enable the Scottish...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1234-5 (Link to this contribution) Members will be getting fed up with my voice by now. I am glad that I withdrew the previous amendmen...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 734 c1234 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I speak to—oh! I am sorry.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1236 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly not intended that the amendment should do that. It says, "““except on a motion to ma...
Lord Wigley | 734 c1235 (Link to this contribution) Obviously we come to this question from different perspectives, but if the amendment were passed wou...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 734 c1233 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord withdraws his amendment, could he inform us whether there is a standing commit...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1233 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what surprises me is how the Scottish Parliament in its procedures seems more rigid and in...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1234 (Link to this contribution) 7: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— ““Discussion of reserved matters (1) Schedule 3 ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1233-4 (Link to this contribution) I think there is a procedures committee that deals with this question in a review. There are people...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1161 (Link to this contribution) That the House do now resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill. Amendment to the Motion That th...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 734 c1179-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Forsyth for moving his amendment to the Motion. It i...
Lord Sanderson of Bowden | 734 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not the first time that, rather surprisingly, I have had to rise to agree with every...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 734 c1229 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way and sorry that I was not here for the start of h...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1222-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for continuing my education. I am better informed than I wa...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 734 c1263 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for that intervention. It would change my position. I would snatch off their ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1252-4 (Link to this contribution) I also need to address some of the points regarding the amendments in my own name. I indicated that ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1180-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a wide-ranging and diverse debate on this comparatively simple Motion, and we ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1165 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is never easy to follow the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, particularly when you agree with ...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 734 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) There is scope for another amendment, I think. I have tabled enough already, so perhaps the noble Lo...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 734 c1197-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for obvious reasons, I shall be brief. The purpose of this opposition to Clause 1 standing...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 734 c1241 (Link to this contribution) The first thing I will say in response to my noble friend is that this is not something that has jus...
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