House of Lords: Strathclyde Review

My Lords, I add my thanks to the Leader of the House for making the Statement and giving us advan...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for not rushing to their own con...

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Absolutely, my Lords, we should use it in exceptional circumstances. However, back in October, a ...

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We are now looking for a way forward that provides that certainty and clarity, and I hope very mu...

My Lords, we now have a period for Back-Bench questions and I hope that noble Lords will recognis...

My Lords, will the Leader agree with me that, for many years now, there has been dissatisfaction ...

I am hugely grateful to the noble Lord for that very important contribution. My noble friend has ...

The noble Lord, Lord Butler, has pointed out that we recommended something like my noble friend L...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his remarks, and I very much take on board his advice about ...

As something of an expert—if I may modestly say so—on government defeats in the House of Lords, c...

My Lords, I have huge respect for the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, and I listen carefully to what he...

My Lords, I sat on the Cunningham committee and I remember the background to it being set up, whi...

I have huge respect for the noble Lord, Lord McNally, and enjoyed working alongside him in govern...

My Lords, I applaud the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, for his report, and in particular the recom...

Like the noble Baroness, and as I have already said, I feel very strongly and care passionately a...

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My Lords, I am sure the House would wish to hear from the noble Lord, Lord Richard, but it is the...

My Lords, I am most grateful. I am sure we are all grateful to my noble friend for what she has s...

As my noble friend may not have had an opportunity to study my noble friend Lord Strathclyde’s re...

My Lords, will the Government kindly recognise, if they have not already, that a balance has to b...

The noble Lord, Lord Richard, makes an important point about the use of the proper legislative ve...

My Lords, I have long supported improving Parliament’s scrutiny of statutory instruments. In that...

I do not want to rehearse again the events of October. When the noble Baroness has had an opportu...