Constitutional Reform (Prerogative Powers and Civil Service etc) Bill (HL). Queens consent signified. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Constitutional Reform (Prerogative Powers and Civil Service etc.) Bill [HL]
Debate on bills on Friday, 3 March 2006,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Lester of Herne Hill.
The answering
member was Lord Bassam of Brighton.
About these Parliamentary proceedings
Reference
679 c443-87Session
2005-06Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
House of Lords chamberRelated items
Constitutional Reform (Prerogative Powers and Civil Service etc) Bill (HL).
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 679 c481-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree that scrutiny is very important. The improvements which the noble Lord acknowledge...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c481 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, given all the real improvements which the Minister has referred to, does he accept that th...
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Lord Bassam of Brighton | 679 c484-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is a recommendation to which we shall give serious consideration. It is in no one’s i...
Lord Sheldon | 679 c484 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister, but will he take account of the recommendation in the ninth...
Lord Lipsey | 679 c486 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the noble Lord not go further? If any proposal in our day had the support of Transpor...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c485-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was once rebuked by a grumpy Member of this House, uncharacteristically, for making a se...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c486-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that certainly would have been true of the Home Secretary. The noble Lord, Lord Armstrong,...
Lord Kingsland | 679 c473-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall join in all the remarks that noble Lords have made about the arrival of the Bill i...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 679 c470-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very happy to have been able to hear from the noble Lord who has just spoken, not lea...
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster | 679 c469-70 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly before the winding-up speeches. I am grateful to the noble...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 679 c467-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, one of the advantages of yielding to a request from a colleague to give up one’s place in ...
Lord Lipsey | 679 c464-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is traditional for those in this position in the speaking list to start by making the o...
Lord McNally | 679 c461-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, for his extremely generous good wishes to...
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne | 679 c458-61 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I crave the indulgence of the House for the fact that I will not be able to stay to...
Lord Sheldon | 679 c456-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is of course conventional to congratulate and thank those who bring an important issue ...
Lord Kingsland | 679 c475-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am just going to deal with that. It seems that the situation for military decision-makin...
Lord Bassam of Brighton | 679 c477-81 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very pleased to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, in today’s Second Reading pre...
Lord Archer of Sandwell | 679 c475 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Does he accept that, in relation to the re...
Lord Kingsland | 679 c453 (Link to this contribution)
The time is unlimited.
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 679 c451-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord on introducing this Bill and on its wide scope. It may b...
Lord Archer of Sandwell | 679 c448-51 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I offer my warm congratulations, and not just conventionally, to the noble Lord, Lord Lest...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 679 c453 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, so far as I am concerned, it is clarification indeed—but I had understood that point, in f...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c453 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall explain one matter to the noble and learned Lord. It is probably because of the dr...
Lord McNally | 679 c443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what about the Government?
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c443-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, once more, I am kept off the grass. It is always particularly enjoyable when mistakes are ...
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster | 679 c443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly to say that I said to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, that I ...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 679 c453 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, a note at the foot of the speakers’ list assures me that if the House is going to rise at ...
Baroness Prashar | 679 c454-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I propose to confine my remarks to those parts of the Bill that relate to the Civil Servic...
Lord Rooker | 679 c443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, ha...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 679 c443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for keeping me out of grave breach of a...
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