Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015

My Lords, that point was made by the Constitution Committee of your Lordships’ House, and I will ...

My noble and learned friend is saying to the House that the reason that no supermajority provisio...

My Lords, the Government’s position has not changed. My noble friend will have heard that I said ...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble and learned friend for setting out the arguments which t...

Notwithstanding whether noble Lords are wedded to a supermajority or opposed to the 16 age-limit ...

My responsibility is not to explain the Government’s position; my responsibility is to hold the G...

I am most grateful to my noble friend for the excellent report his committee has produced. Did th...

Again, my noble friend makes an extremely relevant point. The relationship between voting age and...

My Lords, this is a short measure, but one that I believe will have a very positive impact on our...

Would my noble friend like to comment on a point that has already been made: namely, that if 16 y...

There are two aspects to that. The first is the desire of young people themselves. For many years...

I am most grateful to my noble friend, but is he really arguing that 16 year-olds in Scotland sho...

I am saying that there are differences in the rights and responsibilities of young people, and fo...

My Lords, my question did not concern the merits of a supermajority; I went out of my way to say,...

It is only an apparent change. The noble Lord considers it one, but in fact there is no change. T...

It is not about whether I agree with the merits of it; it is about the objective, factual positio...

I was referring, in my answer to his previous intervention, to the heads of agreement of the Smit...

My Lords, all I can say to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, is that he must have been quite an extrao...

My noble friend is seriously misinformed on this matter. If he looks at the Smith commission’s re...

In which case, why on earth are we still retaining the Barnett formula and allowing Scotland to r...

I am enjoying my noble friend’s contribution but, with regard to symbolism, I wonder which has th...

I am very proud of having taken—

It is not symbolic at all, is it?

I am sure the House will get cross with me if I go on much longer but, as the noble Lord has rais...

Oh!

I shall tell noble Lords the truth of the matter. I do not know if it has been made public before...

My Lords, can we assume that the noble Lord is agreeing with the idea of having a constitutional ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. As he knows, I do favour that. I believe that the Liberals favou...

My Lords, my noble friend will be astonished to hear that I agree with him on one of the main poi...

I apologise for intervening—I missed the first part of this debate—but I must make it plain that,...

I also enjoy my noble friend’s speeches, whether or not I agree with them, because he takes us ba...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, would like to hear views from people in other parts of the ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I just want to add something that he omitted. I r...

The noble Lord, Lord Reid, has a very strong argument to make. The irony was that citizens from o...

My Lords, it seems to me that at times in this debate we have drifted some distance from the core...

I am not sure whether the noble Lord is speaking for himself or for the Liberal party, but when h...

I am simply explaining my personal position, which is that of being sceptical about the need for ...

When I was a Minister in Northern Ireland, in 1973 I introduced proportional representation in th...

I am conscious that the noble Lord, Lord Reid of Cardowan, also wants to come in.

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Lest he unwittingly feeds the very headlines that he seems to fe...

I am not suggesting that we do. I have supported this measure since becoming a councillor at the ...

The noble Lord has characterised us as being opposed to votes for 16 year-olds. For myself, I thi...

I agree that there is great logic in the argument that has already been put forward in the exchan...

My Lords, I have listened with tremendous interest to this debate and with the utmost appreciatio...

My Lords, let me come to the aid of the Government. I have really enjoyed the debate and want it ...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. He seems to be making the case that there was no last-minut...

The noble Lord referred to the Daily Record. In a previous life he was not so keen on quoting the...

I do not wish to contradict anything my noble friend has said but perhaps we should clarify the d...

I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Reid of Cardowan. I was coming to the Better Together campa...

Given that there has been considerable comment about Gordon Brown, does the noble Lord endorse hi...

I have not studied them in detail so I am not quite sure. However, we are dealing with this measu...

Charlie Kennedy.

Charles Kennedy, yes; what a time it was for Charles—a former member of the SDP, but there we are...

On the subject of Gordon Brown, does the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy, agree with his repudiation of t...

This is not about what Gordon Brown says now. I cannot deal with a matter that Gordon Brown has n...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this robust and good natured debate. The...

I wondered whether the Minister voted by post before the vow, like the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, ...

Yes, I did. I voted out of sheer conviction that the right thing to do was maintain Scotland’s pl...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. How on earth can he say it included the Scottish National ...

It is important to remember that the commission involved the Scottish National Party, which signe...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. I may be mistaken, but I thought that the Government publi...

There is provision in the draft clauses for supermajorities covering a range of matters. The Smit...