My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I say to the noble Baroness that this Bill did receive detailed pre-legislative scrutiny; it was considered by a Joint Committee of both Houses and Ministers were scrutinised by committees in both Houses. Ministers in both Houses—I have had some small endeavour in this—have engaged actively with interested Members during the Bill. That is a contrast—perhaps this was the point the noble Baroness was making—to what happened in 2011 when the Fixed-term Parliaments Act was cobbled together in back rooms, as we learn about in the memoirs of Mr David Laws.
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord True
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 22 March 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill.
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