Recall of MPs Bill

My Lords, I must advise your Lordships that if the amendment is agreed, I will not be able to cal...

My Lords, after that introduction by my noble friend, I rise to speak to Amendment 7 in particula...

My Lords, I have huge sympathy with these two amendments because, of course, Amendments 7 and 8 g...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I agree with his point that it is very difficult ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness and that is why I support the amendment. However, it is impor...

My Lords, it is an important principle that the punishment should fit the crime. Although a crimi...

I entirely agree with the noble Baroness, with whom I had the great pleasure of serving when I wa...

My Lords, I thought that my noble friend Lady Taylor put it very well in terms of the huge signif...

As the Bill stands, it does say,

“as the result of a report from the Standards Committee”—<...

Surely I can at least persuade the Minister that that is a seriously anomalous situation that he ...

My Lords, I regarded it as an immense privilege to be a Member of the other House only for eight ...

My Lords, the issue raised by the whole Bill and by this amendment in particular is whether the H...

My Lords, I agree entirely. Perhaps I may make one very important point—I had a conversation in t...

But does the noble Lord not accept that, if the recommendation of the report is that the Member s...

I agree with the most of that, but the commissioner’s report makes a recommendation on sentence a...

My Lords, this group of amendments contains amendments for which I am able to offer the support o...

My Lords, before the noble Lord finishes his remarks, I take him back to the justification which ...

I do not agree with the noble Lord. The amendment was tabled by the Opposition Front Bench becaus...

My Lords, let me speak briefly to the government amendments, which, as the noble Lord, Lord Kenne...

Do not Members of both Houses equally have a responsibility to try to ensure the integrity of Par...

I wish we had heard that sentiment a little more often when we were discussing reform of this Hou...

Although the noble Lord might be right about not being nostalgic about things going back to 40 ye...

We understand that we are dealing with some fairly fundamental principles. The noble Lord, Lord M...

It is the link between politics and the public—the media—which is the cause of the problem, not t...

I wish I could entirely agree with the noble Lord. There are many good aspects of the end of defe...

Before my noble friend concludes his remarks, would he do us the courtesy of dealing with the arg...

We do take our lead from the House of Commons on this. I remarked that the Commons Standards Comm...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He said, in answer to his noble friend Lord Forsyth...

Politics cannot be entirely dismissed from anything. Going back to that wonderful period in the 1...

Whatever the Minister’s reservations about the rights of this House to try and improve legislatio...

I am not aware of what the Speaker did on the same day. I will certainly look at that.

I shall assist my noble friend briefly on this because I think there is a potential anomaly, as t...

I shall make a point which I think illustrates the matter raised by the noble Lord, Lord Tyler. I...

I do not know whether I am entitled to interrupt myself when I was interrupting my noble friend w...

That is technically correct.

I have been sitting quietly—unusually for me—listening carefully to what has been a fascinating d...

The number of days is always in some ways an arbitrary decision. In our amendments, which are con...

My favoured amendment is Amendment 5, which would delete this whole provision, because the Member...

The noble Lord is again making a Second Reading speech—but that is in a sense appropriate, since ...

If the Minister and the Government accepted what I have raised on about 59 other occasions—that w...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. Is not the answer to his question obvious? We have had it f...

Why do we come at all? Why are we going to come tomorrow to discuss the business for tomorrow, or...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, after “Standards” ins...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

9: Clause 1, page 2, line 5, leave out “in relation...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

14: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, leave out “(the firs...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

15: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, leave out from “cond...

My Lords, following acceptance of Amendment 14, Amendment 15 has been changed. It is now proposed...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

17: Clause 2, page 2, line 26, at end insert—