Strathclyde Review

Well, he had been in the House of Commons, my Lords, and therefore it would be fair to say that h...

My Lords, I have greatly enjoyed listening to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. At the outset, I ...

My Lords, I join the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Basildon, in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Str...

My Lords, we have had three powerful speeches so far. A great deal of what the leaders of the two...

My Lords, I very much welcome this debate and look forward to the maiden speeches that we will en...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt but the noble Baroness might be aware that the guide time for s...

It is an advisory time and I am coming to the end.

I would not expect a delay Motion to hap...

My Lords, perhaps I may interrupt before the next noble Lord rises to speak and add to the commen...

My Lords, I was intrigued by the very first sentence of the executive summary in the paper of the...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, was asked to review in haste. He did so and he produc...

My Lords, I, like other Members of your Lordships House, am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stra...

My Lords, in rising to intervene briefly in this debate, I start by explaining that I am chairman...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, presented his report in his characteristically emolli...

My Lords, I rise for the first time, deeply conscious of the honour that it is to serve in your L...

My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to have been placed on the list after the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, I have put my name down to speak this afternoon with a background as a former business ...

My Lords, I sought to speak in this debate for one specific reason. It has been my privilege in r...

My Lords, following the general election and the opening of the new Parliament, it is fair to say...

My Lords, it may help if I explain my background as Chairman of Ways and Means in the other place...

My Lords, I ask the indulgence of the House for a moment to say just a word about my friend and c...

My Lords, it is always a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Williams. She brings great ...

My Lords, I join in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, for the thoughtful way in which he...

My Lords, I rise to take part in this debate from the perspective of the chairman of the Delegate...

Hear, hear!

Alternatively, we have the draft Bill approach, which again can be valuable, but how often is tha...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, who makes some very trenchant criticisms of the wa...

My Lords, it is a very real pleasure for me to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Darling, on his ...

My Lords, the review undertaken by my noble friend Lord Strathclyde may be pointing us in a direc...

My Lords, first, I apologise for the state of my voice. Secondly, as the first speaker from this ...

My Lords, I join those who congratulate my noble friend Lord Strathclyde and his team of experts ...

My Lords, ever since I joined my party’s Whips’ Office in 1977, the threat by all Governments of ...

My Lords, I had a very bad night’s sleep last night. I had a nightmare in which King Henry VIII c...

My Lords, I shall hope to avoid having a disturbing and dramatic dream of the kind that the noble...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, opened this debate by posing three questions. First, ...

I wonder if it would be worth clarifying that point. I completely stand by the words that the nob...

It was not the words of the Motions that were fatal but the political consequences that the Gover...

My Lords, following the thoughts of the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, I would say that the House o...

My Lords, I begin by joining in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, and the noble Lor...

My Lords, at this point in the debate I wish to put a rather different slant on it, even though I...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, I shall take a slightly different tack, but fir...

My Lords, I have not generally participated in debates of this kind, leaving them to noble Lords ...

My Lords, we know that the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, is a very nice man. I have known him for...

My Lords, at this stage of the debate I do not want to do what so many noble Lords so far have do...

I join those thanking the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, for his very thoughtful and thought-provo...

My Lords, a few moments ago, the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, suggested that anything we did now wou...

My Lords, I begin by congratulating my noble friend Lord Darling on a first-class maiden speech. ...

My Lords, I venture to speak in this debate because, when it comes to tabling and then moving an ...

My Lords, in the course of my remarks I will say something about what was said in this House on 1...

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, in two senses: first, we must listen to what...

My Lords, we have had some hugely interesting and expert contributions to today’s debate. I am no...

My Lords, I begin by welcoming the maiden speeches of our two new Members. I have not been privil...

Oh!

That would be a nice thing, would it not? The German upper House has very circumscribed powers. I...

My Lords, the fact that the report by the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, was commissioned as part ...

My Lords, I enter this debate from a somewhat different angle in that I am only here—that is, her...

My Lords, those of your Lordships who have been Members of this House for a few years may remembe...

My Lords, I, too, express my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, and to his advisers for ...

My Lords, if I were to explain why I profoundly disagree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mo...

My Lords, at this hour even I can think of very few original things to say, but I congratulate my...

My Lords, we do not have a constitutional crisis on our hands. We are dealing with two problems, ...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating my noble friend Lord Strathclyde on his repo...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Goodlad, whose 2011 report—partic...

My Lords, as the last Back-Bench speaker in this debate—I wonder whether there is some alphabetic...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating and thoughtful debate. The contributions and the expertise ...

My Lords, perhaps I may clarify that to the noble Lord, because he has made quite a meal of it. I...

I do not think that the House fully understands that, and I think that it has taken a more measur...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. I warmly welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, an...

My Lords, I offer sincere thanks to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. It is an ...

Oh!

It had already decided what its view was on the statutory instrument and we do not have that mech...

I respect what the noble Baroness says, but in her remarks so far she gives no evidence whatever ...

I am conscious of time; everybody is tired. I am going to come on to that; I have just said that ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness will acknowledge that a lot of evidence went to the Joint Committee,...

I say to the noble Lord that the Joint Committee on Conventions of 2006 was clearly highly respec...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, and I apologise again for the state of my voice, but what sh...

I am going to move on, to make some progress. I do not disagree with what the noble Lord says abo...

I really do not understand the noble Baroness’s logic. Is she saying that if the House had accept...

My precise point, which my noble friend made when he introduced today’s debate, is that, in pract...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way again, but she just again said something that ...

Okay, I am just going to make one simple point and then I really will move on. We are disagreeing...

If the Leader of the House is dismissing out of hand the idea of a Joint Committee, how can she g...

The point is to make sure that the House of Commons has the final say on secondary legislation. I...

The noble Baroness has said that she has not come to any conclusion, yet she has said that she is...

I have said what we are doing. We will reflect on the very important points that have been made t...

My Lords, what is so refreshing about the debate we have had today is that we have been discussin...