Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

Sir Nicholas, it is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. The reason why I was shaking my head at the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), who knows that I have a great deal of fondness for him, was that in this particular regard he is wrong. He is wrong in two respects. The first is that the amendment would not remove any of the wording to which he was referring, about what""a Minister of the Crown thinks appropriate"." The amendment would not amend that element of the clause at all; it would simply add to what is published, by providing that there should be not only a copy of the treaty but an explanatory memorandum.