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Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 14 March 2022, in the House of Commons, led by Michael Ellis.
Programme (No. 2) motion relating to consideration of Lords amendments. Agreed to on question. Consideration of Lords amendments. Clause 2, motion to disagree with Lords amendment 1, debated and agreed to on division (292 to 217). Motion that a Committee be appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendments. Agreed to on question. Reasons to be reported and communicated to the Lords.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
710 cc641-657 
Session
2021-22
Department
Treasury
Legislative stage
Lords amendments
Procedure
Programme motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill 2021-22. Lords amendments.
Friday, 25 February 2022
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Michael Ellis | 710 c642 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 1.

The Bill passed through th...

Julian Lewis | 710 c642 (Link to this contribution)

I am hugely relieved to hear the Minister say that. I have stood in every election since 1997. On...


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Michael Ellis | 710 c642 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with my right hon. Friend; there is of course a good reason why the 2017 to 2019 Parliame...

John Redwood | 710 c642 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Minister confirm that, if we dismiss Lords amendment 1 today, the courts will not have a...

Michael Ellis | 710 cc642-3 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is quite right that it is not productive, and, in fact, it would not be in t...

Kevin Brennan | 710 c643 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. and learned Gentleman has mentioned what happens in the event of a minority Govern...

Michael Ellis | 710 c643 (Link to this contribution)

I do not want to get into hypotheticals, but what I will say is that the pre-2011 position worked...

Alun Cairns | 710 c643 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. and learned Friend share my disbelief at some of the opposition to the current...

Michael Ellis | 710 c643 (Link to this contribution)

Good constitutional practice involves protecting the integrity of the legislature, the Executive ...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 710 c643 (Link to this contribution)

I sat on the Joint Committee that reviewed the 2011 Act and we spent long, productive and interes...

Michael Ellis | 710 cc643-4 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is completely right. In fact, it is difficult to expostulate all the different sce...

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 710 c644 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister responded to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) by saying that he ful...

Michael Ellis | 710 c644 (Link to this contribution)

I am obviously not doing that. We are able to see where mistakes have been made and where things ...

William Wragg | 710 c644 (Link to this contribution)

May I refer my right hon. and learned Friend to “The Crown”, of which I am sure he was an avid vi...

Michael Ellis | 710 cc644-5 (Link to this contribution)

The Lascelles principles are something we still respect. One of the fundamental tenets of Sir Ala...

Alex Norris | 710 cc645-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak for the Opposition in this debate.

I listened ve...

Kevin Brennan | 710 c646 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend think there is any possibility that a future Government, or this Government g...

Alex Norris | 710 c646 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that intervention. I strongly believe in the maxim that how you do one thing is...

Julian Lewis | 710 c646 (Link to this contribution)

How is it an abuse of power and a strengthening of the Executive for the Executive to say, “We wa...

Alex Norris | 710 c646 (Link to this contribution)

The Lords amendment is a very modest safeguard to that in saying, “At least demonstrate that a ma...

Julian Lewis | 710 c646 (Link to this contribution)

I do not think it was a dreadful election—it was a brilliant election. What was dreadful was the ...

Alex Norris | 710 c647 (Link to this contribution)

I cannot agree with the right hon. Gentleman. The idea that it was dreadful that a Government who...

John Redwood | 710 c647 (Link to this contribution)

The point is this: why should an Opposition, when facing a minority Government who want to resolv...

Alex Norris | 710 c647 (Link to this contribution)

I cannot agree with the right hon. Gentleman, because the reality is that before those parties co...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 710 c647 (Link to this contribution)

Many Members may find it rather difficult to think of a scenario when we would not need to have s...

Alex Norris | 710 cc647-8 (Link to this contribution)

It is definitely fair to say that there are new arrangements. That is why the Minister said the a...

Alex Norris | 710 c648 (Link to this contribution)

Sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker: 21 of the Minister’s colleagues. Of course, they were rare circumsta...

Alex Norris | 710 c648 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I say to the Government that it is not a one-way street ...

William Wragg | 710 cc648-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) for the introduction where he describe...

Patrick Grady | 710 c649 (Link to this contribution)

Why is it good enough for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly t...

William Wragg | 710 cc649-650 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman invites me to be intemperate about the difference between this House and the o...

Brendan O'Hara | 710 c650 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to speak in favour of the Lords amendment, which would require any Government seeking to d...

Julian Lewis | 710 c650 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, which is typically gracious of him. He calls it a “min...

Brendan O'Hara | 710 c650 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but that is a decision for this Parliamen...

Patrick Grady | 710 c650 (Link to this contribution)

What we are hearing, especially from Government Members, is continued Westminster exceptionalism:...

Brendan O'Hara | 710 c651 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and he is right. What we are seeing is, as he descr...

John Redwood | 710 c651 (Link to this contribution)

Can the hon. Member explain why Opposition parties in this House are so keen to prevent there bei...

Brendan O'Hara | 710 c651 (Link to this contribution)

It is very witty to frame this debate in those terms, but I think the right hon. Gentleman is mis...

Alan Brown | 710 c651 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not strange that Conservative Members who we have had to listen to banging on and on for ye...

Brendan O'Hara | 710 cc651-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend, and I suspect he may have been reading my speech earlier, because I will ...

John Redwood | 710 cc652-3 (Link to this contribution)

Opposition parties are struggling a bit with this idea of democracy, are they not? Taking back co...

Chris Bryant | 710 cc653-4 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise to the House that, because I have been in Committee Room 10 launching the call for ev...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 710 c654 (Link to this contribution)

Is it equally the case that including this vote in the Bill would not mitigate people not being g...

Chris Bryant | 710 cc654-5 (Link to this contribution)

I think the danger is precisely the opposite. The arrangements that the hon. Lady would like us t...

Gareth Bacon | 710 cc655-6 (Link to this contribution)

I will be brief as I gather I have only a few minutes to speak. The Lords amendment would require...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 710 c656 (Link to this contribution)

Members across the House want the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, but in its defen...

Patrick Grady | 710 cc656-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is not really for the Scottish National party to defend the Westminster interpretation of demo...

Michael Ellis | 710 c657 (Link to this contribution)

First, may I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) that I, too, am a...

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