Statement on constitutional renewal (Inc ref to the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill - Cm 7342).
Constitutional Renewal
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474 c21-38Session
2007-08Chamber / Committee
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The Governance of Britain - constitutional renewal. (In 3 volumes - including the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill).
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Proceeding contributions
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c34, (corrigendum) 304;474 c34 (Link to this contribution)
I do not understand what the Prime Minister said last week on the Intelligence and Security Committe...
Jack Straw | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
The proposals do provide us with that opportunity, but I do not want in the statement to rehearse th...
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Alan Reid | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
Giving Parliament the power to vote on a dissolution will make no difference when a Government have ...
Jack Straw | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
The basic terms of reference, so to speak, of the cross-party group are the decisions of this House ...
Tom Levitt | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome what my right hon. Friend said about the greater inclusion of Parliament in the ratificati...
John Redwood | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
Do the proposals for the reform of the House of Lords, which the right hon. Gentleman referred to in...
Fiona Mactaggart | 474 c34 (Link to this contribution)
I had hoped to hear more in the statement about electoral systems, including the possibility of comp...
Jack Straw | 474 c34 (Link to this contribution)
I understand that there are strong feelings about that. Those encampments are unsightly, but they al...
Lord Young of Cookham | 474 c34 (Link to this contribution)
On part 1 of the Bill, although no one would object to orderly and peaceful demonstrations in Parlia...
Jack Straw | 474 c34 (Link to this contribution)
The Government's proposals are set out on pages 59 to 61 of the White Paper. Last Wednesday, my righ...
Gordon Prentice | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
Is there anything in the draft Bill that addresses the scandal of tax exiles serving in Parliament? ...
Jack Straw | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
I understand my hon. Friend's sentiments, but we have no plans to do so.
Viscount Hailsham | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman's proposals that the Executive should yield power to Parliament would be ev...
Jack Straw | 474 c33-4 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) has taken the words out of my mouth. T...
Paul Flynn | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
The Canadian Parliament debated and voted on the decision to send 2,500 troops to Helmand province. ...
Jack Straw | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
It might be a good idea if the hon. Gentleman recognised the legitimacy of the majority of the Scott...
Pete Wishart | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
I am quite surprised that there is so little about Scotland in the constitutional paper, given the u...
Jack Straw | 474 c32 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman and I have bored for Britain on the interesting issue that the Karlsruhe federal ...
Jack Straw | 474 c32 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes an important point. I hope that he will examine the draft...
Alan Whitehead | 474 c32 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the range of proposals in the White Paper, particularly those that strengthen the role of ...
Jack Straw | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that suggestion. I will discuss it with my right hon. Frien...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 474 c31-2 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the further statement on policy on war powers, but does the Justice Secretary agree that i...
Jack Straw | 474 c32 (Link to this contribution)
The answer is that we are consulting on weekend voting. There is much evidence that if voting takes ...
William Cash | 474 c32 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Secretary of State confirm that part 4 of the Bill wraps up the discussions and exchanges t...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the greater scrutiny of public appointments, but there is one particular appointment that ...
Jack Straw | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to say that I cannot oblige the hon. Gentleman in that regard. I have been here almost as...
Lord Cormack | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
As one who believes that this Executive have done more to sideline Parliament and the legislature th...
Jack Straw | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his broad welcome for the proposals. A procedure is already in p...
Lord Beith | 474 c29-30 (Link to this contribution)
Although I welcome the fact that the Government have moved much closer to the position of the former...
Jack Straw | 474 c30 (Link to this contribution)
On the latter point, I do not think that that is the case, but I shall certainly look at the matter....
Jack Straw | 474 c30 (Link to this contribution)
I shall quit while I am ahead as far as my right hon. Friend's compliments are concerned.
The way i...
Peter Robinson | 474 c30 (Link to this contribution)
The House will have heard that the Justice Secretary believes that, when it comes to flag flying, th...
Jack Straw | 474 c30 (Link to this contribution)
The reason for the Government's decision is obvious, and it is not the one that the hon. Gentleman m...
Jack Straw | 474 c29 (Link to this contribution)
The proposals on public appointments of key officials are not in the Bill. They are proposed for non...
Jack Straw | 474 c29 (Link to this contribution)
It is rare for me to demur from my right hon. Friend's opinions, but on this occasion I do so. I do ...
Lord Spellar | 474 c29 (Link to this contribution)
May I refer to the issue of judicial appointments? Is it not a fact that, like this country, nearly ...
Jack Straw | 474 c38 (Link to this contribution)
I am clear about the fact that this is not a partisan proposal. We have come to no decisions about i...
David Gauke | 474 c38 (Link to this contribution)
In examining proposals for constitutional renewal, have the Government given any consideration to in...
Jack Straw | 474 c37 (Link to this contribution)
Part of the trouble—and it has been ever thus—is that there is insufficient time on the Floor of the...
Peter Bone | 474 c38 (Link to this contribution)
May I press the Lord Chancellor on one matter? In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury...
Jack Straw | 474 c38 (Link to this contribution)
We have not, as it happens, but there is a case for that, as there would be in respect of the other ...
Jack Straw | 474 c37 (Link to this contribution)
I have already said on many occasions that one cannot use changes to the voting system as some kind ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 474 c37 (Link to this contribution)
I was extremely concerned to read in yesterday's edition of The Guardian that, according to its poli...
Jack Straw | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
We have proposed to the Modernisation Committee that where the Prime Minister proposes the dissoluti...
Andrew Miller | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
Successive Governments have found difficulty in creating parliamentary time to deal with outstanding...
Jack Straw | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
I understand the frustration that my hon. Friend has mentioned, and I repeat my great praise for suc...
Brian Binley | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
Between 1965 and 1976, I was an election agent and was involved on numerous occasions in local, nati...
Jack Straw | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
I am not the Home Secretary, but we will leave that minor matter aside. I do not share the hon. Gent...
David Hamilton | 474 c36 (Link to this contribution)
May I put forward an alternative point of view from that expressed in an earlier question about the ...
Jack Straw | 474 c36-7 (Link to this contribution)
That is a point of view, but my view is that the established Church plays an important role in our c...
Jack Straw | 474 c25-7 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for the welcome he gave to the proposals, but let me say in response to h...
William Cash | 474 c26 (Link to this contribution)
He was arrested!
Jim Devine | 474 c27 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, particularly his comment that this is not the final blue...
David Howarth | 474 c27-8 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, thank the Secretary of State for advanced notice of his statement. Will he acknowledge that ...
Jack Straw | 474 c27 (Link to this contribution)
Let me say to my hon. Friend that I speak on behalf of the Prime Minister: because of the position t...
Chris Mullin | 474 c28-9 (Link to this contribution)
Can my right hon. Friend elaborate on the proposals in the White Paper for the accountability of the...
Jack Straw | 474 c28 (Link to this contribution)
I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's criticisms of the changes. These are major and significant chan...
Douglas Carswell | 474 c29 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome proposals to reform the Crown prerogative. Too many powers that should rightfully rest wit...
Jack Straw | 474 c29 (Link to this contribution)
These arrangements—as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister spelled out, they are in advance of an...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 474 c24-5 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Secretary of State for Justice for early sight of his statement. There is much in the Go...
Jack Straw | 474 c21-3 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about our programme of constitutiona...
John Bercow | 474 c23 (Link to this contribution)
All from my hon. Friend the Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell).
Jack Straw | 474 c35 (Link to this contribution)
Significant changes to the security of postal voting were made in the Electoral Administration Act 2...
Jack Straw | 474 c33 (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly pass on to my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary and my right hon. and learned...
Michael Meacher | 474 c30 (Link to this contribution)
So far, so excellent, but will my right hon. Friend also include in his constitutional proposals the...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 474 c31 (Link to this contribution)
This is a welcome and important package of measures that will play an important part in our constitu...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 474 c37 (Link to this contribution)
The Government will not be taken seriously in their supposed desire to return power to Parliament wh...
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