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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

I shall be extremely brief. It is unfortunate—in fact, that is hardly the word—that we have reached a part of the Bill that has some real meat in it and there is simply no time to discuss it. I hope that the Government will say how we can deal with the rest of the Bill, because at the moment the Committee will be unable to do so. Over the years, we have had endless arguments about special advisers, and we do not need to repeat them now. Let us hope that we have got it out of our system, but surely we must agree that we have to know what special advisers can do and what they cannot do. In a Bill that sets down the core values of our system of our government, we need to say on the face of it what special advisers can and cannot do. Surely we have to test the will of the Committee on that.

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Reference

498 c820 

Session

2008-09

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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