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Governance of Britain

Ministerial statement on Thursday, 25 October 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw.
Statement on the governance of Britain. (Inc ref to 3 consultation documents - Cm 7210, Cm 7235 and Cm 7239)

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Reference

465 c407-22 

Session

2006-07

Department

Lord Chancellor's Department
Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Jack Straw | 465 c407-10 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about our programme of constitutiona...
Speaker | 465 c411 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must call on the Front Benchers. It is unfair; the hon. Gentleman is asking questions. I as...

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Lord Herbert of South Downs | 465 c410-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Lord Chancellor for giving me a brief early sight of his statement and for the delivery ...
Speaker | 465 c412 (Link to this contribution) Order. I called on Government Ministers to limit their statements to 10 minutes. That happened in th...
Jack Straw | 465 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to deal briefly with those points. First, I regret the first point that the hon. Member f...
Speaker | 465 c413 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to trouble the Secretary of State, but his Department has put out copies of the st...
Jack Straw | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution) Let me just say in respect of the points raised by the hon. Gentleman that the EU treaty will be the...
David Heath | 465 c414-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the statement, and I would have welcomed early sight of the papers accompanying it. ...
Speaker | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution) Order. I thought that I left the stopwatch when I left Rolls Royce, but I am on a stopwatch now. I m...
Alan Whitehead | 465 c413-4 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the statement by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice and the...
Jack Straw | 465 c414 (Link to this contribution) The documents are part of the review of the royal prerogative. We have been much informed by the rep...
Lord Cormack | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) Does the Lord Chancellor agree that there is all the difference in the world between orderly, peacef...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) We look forward to hearing from the right hon. Gentleman's Select Committee; I think that he would h...
Lord Beith | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Government's acceptance of the Constitutional Affairs Committee's view that freedom of...
Jack Straw | 465 c415-6 (Link to this contribution) We do not make specific proposals on that issue in these documents. There are proposals, which I dis...
Edward Leigh | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that any proposed changes to the governance of the National Audi...
Jack Straw | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution) I want to endorse the hon. Gentleman's last remarks. The answer to his first question is yes.
Julie Morgan | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, and particularly the announcements about freedom of info...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that there is indeed a difference. Whether the provisions will conti...
Fiona Mactaggart | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's remarks about a more widely drawn judiciary, but I would like to ...
Jack Straw | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution) I made a detailed report to the House in an oral statement just before the summer recess. The all-pa...
Mark Lazarowicz | 465 c417-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend made brief mention of the progress of the discussions on the reform of the Hous...
Andrew MacKay | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to the Lord Chancellor that although his occasional busking at the Dispatch Box is attr...
Denis MacShane | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution) Are we actually at war in Iraq? The Lord Chancellor says that he wants to look at extending the Free...
Jack Straw | 465 c418 (Link to this contribution) I should have said that the consultation period on all the documents ends on 17 January, so it is pr...
Jack Straw | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the second question is yes. I gave advance information about the contents of the docum...
William Cash | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor makes a great deal of democracy. Does he agree that given the reform treaty—[Int...
Jack Straw | 465 c418-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; I once wrote a long essay on that, but it was in English. The document makes it clear that ...
Adam Price | 465 c419 (Link to this contribution) Given the Government's keenness to involve the citizen in the wider debate, does he see merit in the...
Jack Straw | 465 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) I have a bet at Ladbrokes, with extremely generous odds, on whether at any stage in the next 10 year...
Tony Baldry | 465 c420 (Link to this contribution) Does the Lord Chancellor recognise that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would not have ...
Jack Straw | 465 c420 (Link to this contribution) We will have to have another occasion to debate the justification for military action in respect of ...
Julian Lewis | 465 c420-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the Lord Chancellor accept that when we exercise our right to free speech, whether in this Cham...
Jack Straw | 465 c421 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will indeed address that issue. If I may say so, the hon. Ge...
Brian Binley | 465 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Lord Chancellor for his statement. I particularly welcome his comment that his motivatio...
Peter Bone | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor said that the Prime Minister is making a statement elsewhere about the freedom o...
Jack Straw | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution) I understand and am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments, which my right hon. Friend the Home ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 465 c415 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the announcement that we will not restrict media access to coroners' courts, which will ce...
Jack Straw | 465 c417 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of involving people better in the decision...
Jack Straw | 465 c416 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made proposals for change, particularly to give, as it w...
Jack Straw | 465 c422 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is indeed making a speech elsewhere shortly. One reason why ...

Subjects

Disclosure of information
Data protection
Armed forces
Demonstrations
Armed conflict
Constitutions
Deployment
British constitution
Democracy
Freedom of information
House of Lords
House of Commons
Judiciary
Judges
Powers of entry
Personal records
Police
Powers
Public appointments
Privacy
Parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary scrutiny
National Audit Office
Treaties
Royal prerogative
Committee of Public Accounts
Information Commissioner's Office

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