Statement on constitutional reform.
Constitutional Reform
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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 462 c820-2 (Link to this contribution)
I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Corporal Paul Joszko, Private Scott Kennedy, and Priv...
Speaker | 462 c823 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Hon. Members should not shout down any Member when he is addressing the House. It should not ...
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Gordon Brown | 462 c822-3 (Link to this contribution)
Let me thank the Leader of the Opposition for his welcome to me and also for the sentiments that he ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 462 c823-4 (Link to this contribution)
I join the Prime Minister in his expressions of sympathy and condolence and the tributes that he pai...
Speaker | 462 c818 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I want hon. Members and right hon. Members to listen to the statement. Obviously, there will ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c815-20 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr. Speaker, my first, most important and most solemn duty is to pay tribute to the...
Lord Cormack | 462 c826 (Link to this contribution)
If the Prime Minister truly believes in an effective bicameral Parliament, will he take steps to aba...
Gordon Brown | 462 c826 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The important role that he plays as a Church Commissioner is reflec...
Stuart Bell | 462 c826 (Link to this contribution)
On behalf of the Church of England, and as the Second Church Estates Commissioner, may I say that th...
Gordon Brown | 462 c826 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman plays a very important role as chairman of the Constitutional Affairs Commi...
Lord Beith | 462 c825-6 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the fact that in setting out his encyclopaedia of proposals the Prime Minister has made it...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 462 c825 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate my right hon. Friend on a most remarkable document, but more particularly I welcome t...
Gordon Brown | 462 c824-5 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said about the following issues. The firs...
Speaker | 462 c824 (Link to this contribution)
Order. There is far too much noise in the Chamber. It is unfair to the right hon. and learned Gentle...
Elfyn Llwyd | 462 c827-8 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the Prime Minister on his appointment, and I speak on behalf of Plaid Cymru and the S...
Gordon Brown | 462 c827 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I am sorry that he was not able to join me in the contest for...
Ronnie Campbell | 462 c828 (Link to this contribution)
Will that include consulting local people on local government reorganisation, as in Northumberland, ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c828 (Link to this contribution)
The last point is a matter for the Welsh Assembly and this United Kingdom Parliament to discuss. We ...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 462 c827 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome many of the proposals that the Prime Minister has put forward, but in rejecting the case f...
Gordon Brown | 462 c827 (Link to this contribution)
For any Prime Minister to be congratulated by the hon. Member is a unique occasion.
Michael Meacher | 462 c827 (Link to this contribution)
I strongly commend my right hon. Friend’s proposals, particularly his introducing them at the outset...
Gordon Brown | 462 c827 (Link to this contribution)
I disagree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman who, if he studies these matters, will note tha...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 462 c826-7 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the Prime Minister on his statement. At a time of change, nothing could be more signi...
Gordon Brown | 462 c826 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot assure the hon. Gentleman about the second matter, which is the subject of debate and where...
John Stanley | 462 c828 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Prime Minister assure the House that the measures that he has announced today will in no wa...
Gordon Brown | 462 c828-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for allowing me to clarify the position and to give more d...
Gordon Brown | 462 c828 (Link to this contribution)
There is a process for examining the very issue that my hon. Friend raises, and today I suggested th...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 462 c829 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the scope of the debate that the Prime Minister has opened today with his statement, and i...
Gordon Brown | 462 c829 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for some of the proposals that he put forward ...
Paul Flynn | 462 c829 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on his splendid statement that will reverse that damaging t...
Gordon Brown | 462 c829 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. What we are proposing with an independent statistics board, with a ...
Helen Jones | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
I do not know whether the conflation of the two of us is welcome or not.
What the Prime Minister ha...
Speaker | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I called Helen Jones; you are Lynne Jones.
Gordon Brown | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
The virtue of the process that we are starting is that the very issue that she has raised can be par...
Douglas Carswell | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
In order to make Parliament more accountable, does the Prime Minister envisage some form of popular ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
I have suggested that the House could consider how it deals with petitions from members of the publi...
Lynne Jones | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
I wish my right hon. Friend well—
I apologise, Mr. Speaker—I am going a little deaf. I am pleased t...
Gordon Brown | 462 c830 (Link to this contribution)
The Government have just set up committees to look at the manifesto that we will produce for the gen...
David Howarth | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
The Prime Minister did not respond to one of the questions asked by my right hon. and learned Friend...
Gordon Brown | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
The first stage of any future discussion will be the publication, soon, of the review of electoral s...
Tony Wright | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
On behalf of the Public Administration Committee, which has over the years recommended a good number...
Gordon Brown | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who does such good work as Chairman of the Committee. I believe tha...
Lord Young of Cookham | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
The Prime Minister prefaced his remarks by saying that he wanted to give more power to Parliament. W...
Gordon Brown | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
That, again, is a matter for the Modernisation Committee. Obviously, we are willing to discuss these...
Steve Webb | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
From his statement, the right hon. Gentleman clearly agrees that it is wrong for the Prime Minister ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c832-3 (Link to this contribution)
The document proposes that the dissolution of Parliament cannot simply be at the Prime Minister’s di...
Andrew Mackinlay | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
The Prime Minister has given an awful lot of important portfolios to Members of the House of Lords. ...
Gordon Brown | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
That would indeed be a constitutional innovation. The Executive must have members in both Houses and...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
The Prime Minister will of course be aware that there is much to welcome in his statement on both si...
Gordon Brown | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
I think that the hon. Gentleman knows my views about the importance of teaching history, both in cit...
Gordon Brown | 462 c832 (Link to this contribution)
That must always be taken into account in considering the role of regional Ministers or of regional ...
Chris Mullin | 462 c833 (Link to this contribution)
May I, too, warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, especially the suggestion that the Secu...
Gordon Brown | 462 c833 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments, but I have to tell him that extensive discussion took p...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 462 c824 (Link to this contribution)
I also believe that we should all welcome the Prime Minister’s intention to make the intelligence an...
Gordon Brown | 462 c825 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who has been an excellent chairman of the Intelligence and Se...
Anne Snelgrove | 462 c831 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the depth and breadth of these proposals, especially those relating to local communities a...
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