The noble Lord seems to be proposing a new constitutional principle, whereby the Government say that they have an idea but they are not sure what it is, so they say, “Here is a Bill. When we have done some more thinking on it, we will introduce it”. This could be applied across the board. That is not how Parliament works. Is this a new procedure being advocated by the noble Lord’s Benches, in which case could he give us his own little background constitutional paper as to how Parliament should work on this basis?
Infrastructure Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hunt of Chesterton
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 18 June 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Infrastructure Bill [HL].
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