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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 20 October 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw. The answering member was Dominic Grieve.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

497 c799-883 

Session

2008-09

Department

Ministry of Justice

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Carry-over motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 142-EN also published.
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Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. Government response to the Public Administration Select Committee's tenth report of Session 2007-08 (HC 499).
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Command papers
House of Commons
Constitutional reform and renewal. Justice Select Committee eleventh report with appendix, formal minutes and evidence (HC 923-i not printed separately).
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Parliamentary committees
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Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. Public Administration Select Committee tenth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 499-i-ii not printed separately) and appendices.
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Proceeding contributions

Jack Straw | 497 c830 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Howarth | 497 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it is a good idea to discuss this in detail now as the jury is still out. [Interrupti...

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David Howarth | 497 c831-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention, and especially for his initial comments, which amount to...
David Howarth | 497 c831 (Link to this contribution) I would not argue as broadly as the hon. Gentleman does, and this might not be the right Bill in whi...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c832 (Link to this contribution) As a matter of fact, what the hon. Gentleman said is a big understatement. The Joint Committee had t...
David Howarth | 497 c832-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, because that is precisely what has happened. I ...
Jack Straw | 497 c832 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important issue, which I have always seen as one of fine judgment and b...
David Howarth | 497 c832 (Link to this contribution) The Joint Committee was far from unanimous on that point, and the Justice Committee report clearly w...
David Howarth | 497 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the vast majority of what the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) has just said—...
David Drew | 497 c828 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that, like me, the hon. Gentleman regularly visits schools, and that, like me, he is pleas...
David Howarth | 497 c828 (Link to this contribution) I do agree, but that is a consequence of the great boundary that we have developed between people in...
Jack Straw | 497 c828 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman's interesting speech carefully. I do not think that he meant that ...
Tony Wright | 497 c824-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me to go wider than I am already going, and I think that I am going quite wide...
David Howarth | 497 c830 (Link to this contribution) Until very recently it has certainly produced better economic management. As for the recent catastro...
David Howarth | 497 c828-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for correcting me. What I meant was that we had been airbrushing the ...
Ronnie Campbell | 497 c829 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that there should not be a constituency element to the role of a Me...
David Howarth | 497 c829 (Link to this contribution) The STV system retains the constituency element; it just has larger constituencies. They would be ab...
Jack Straw | 497 c830 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that the Irish system of proportional representation has produced bett...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c820 (Link to this contribution) Well, Parliament can legislate in a day; the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to pick me up on tha...
Lord Beith | 497 c819 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. and learned Gentleman could clarify the confusing Conservative position on...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c819 (Link to this contribution) Taking the cue from the Secretary of State, on a point that I thought was one of his more valid ones...
Tony Wright | 497 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) I was interested to hear my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State begin his speech by telling us ...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c820-2 (Link to this contribution) If I may say so, it is nitpicking, particularly coming from the Secretary of State, given the Govern...
Jack Straw | 497 c820 (Link to this contribution) Let me press the hon. and learned Gentleman on the right hon. Gentleman's point. All three parties a...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c820 (Link to this contribution) We have made our commitment and made it quite clear. The order in which we decide to prioritise legi...
Jack Straw | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman, because I did not think that my memory was playing ...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c818-9 (Link to this contribution) We have made it absolutely clear that if there is an opportunity to have a referendum on the Lisbon ...
David Drew | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) For clarity, will the hon. and learned Gentleman commit his Front-Bench colleagues to a referendum o...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but that piece of casuistry takes some beating—[Interruption.] It was casuistry! First, ...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) I remember distinctly the Government telling us that they would put the Lisbon treaty to the British...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is correct to say that the Minister resigned, but it took rather a lot of d...
Lord Blunkett | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that that did happen in early 2004, and the Minister responsible resigne...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c817 (Link to this contribution) I see no reason why we would not adopt an approach similar to that which we have taken previously. I...
Andrew Dismore | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, I made an intervention about nationality discrimination rules within the civil service. If ...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c817 (Link to this contribution) I ought to make some progress, but I shall give way once more before moving on.
Tony Wright | 497 c817 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Dominic Grieve | 497 c817 (Link to this contribution) That is complete rubbish. The hon. Gentleman should be wary about listening to all the copy churned ...
Tony Wright | 497 c817 (Link to this contribution) I seek some clarity about the theme raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brights...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) Well now, I have to be careful, because I admit that my memory may be at fault as to whether some of...
Lord Blunkett | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has really started to dig himself a hole. Can he name one such occurrence while I...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) My impression is that the basic cause of leaks from the civil service has been the breakdown in trus...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c815-6 (Link to this contribution) Of course we are. I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that anxieties over the extent to which ...
Lord Blunkett | 497 c815 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman is making an entertaining speech, but it is short on the substance of...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c815 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State. In tribute to him, it seems that he has injected a note of reality i...
Jack Straw | 497 c815 (Link to this contribution) May I totally refute what the hon. and learned Gentleman says? Any single proposal, particularly one...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c814 (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt the Secretary of State's sincerity. If I have been taking his comments in what I hope...
Jack Straw | 497 c814 (Link to this contribution) The whole of this is serious. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State will respond in detail to s...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the Minister did invite me to take part. He rang me up and politely asked whether I would like ...
Lord Wills | 497 c813 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt the flow of the hon. and learned Gentleman's speech, but he must root it ...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c813 (Link to this contribution) I shall go away and check, and I will be quite prepared to admit it if I have got it wrong, but that...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c812 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by saying how much we welcome the fact that this Bill, for which we have been waiting f...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c813 (Link to this contribution) I remember that there was discussion, and I see that the Minister of State is talking to the Secreta...
Jack Straw | 497 c813 (Link to this contribution) When did the Prime Minister talk about rewriting the national anthem?
David Drew | 497 c811 (Link to this contribution) Would not this proposal be more credible if we had the American system so that all Members who sit i...
Jack Straw | 497 c810-1 (Link to this contribution) No. Will the hon. Gentleman excuse me? I have already been speaking for almost 45 minutes, and I nee...
Andrew Dismore | 497 c811 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Jack Straw | 497 c811 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I do not want to follow him down that route. We have to make decl...
Simon Burns | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jack Straw | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) If I gave that impression, I did not mean to, because the schedule and its paving clauses exist to d...
David Howarth | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) I am rather worried by the Lord Chancellor's reply to the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore). The ...
Jack Straw | 497 c809-10 (Link to this contribution) Part 4 is very different from the provisions in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, whi...
Mark Field | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will, I am sure, appreciate that there is an issue not simply for Westminster...
Andrew Dismore | 497 c809 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the repeal of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 in so far as it applies to P...
Jack Straw | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) May I just say, parenthetically, that I am one of the world's experts on the land ownership of Parli...
Jack Straw | 497 c808-9 (Link to this contribution) I have indeed read them. I think they were published by the University college London constitution u...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c808 (Link to this contribution) Further to the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr....
Jack Straw | 497 c809 (Link to this contribution) I think that is the case, but I would not dream of saying that the distance should be 250 metres and...
Simon Burns | 497 c809 (Link to this contribution) Although I fully appreciate that the Government are seeking to minimise any unnecessary restrictions...
Mark Field | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) The Justice Secretary has rightly pointed out the temporary nature of these arrangements, but would ...
Jack Straw | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) I am not opposed to that principle, and I do not guarantee what stand the Government will take when ...
Chris Huhne | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) Will the Lord Chancellor give way?
Jack Straw | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will, in one second. The Committee stage of the Bill will have quite a considerable time...
Chris Huhne | 497 c808 (Link to this contribution) Before the Lord Chancellor moves off the section of his speech dealing with the reform of Parliament...
Jack Straw | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to nod assent. The Conservative party has signed up to the main proposition...
Jack Straw | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I did so rather too parenthetically, but I did add a coda to the effect that hereditary peer...
David Howarth | 497 c807 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Justice Secretary for giving way. As he will know, there were far fewer candidates in th...
Jack Straw | 497 c806 (Link to this contribution) They are the sons. I note the point that the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs. Laing) makes, but b...
Jack Straw | 497 c806 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. Further work is now being done to bring about a framework for and draft clauses of a Bi...
Jack Straw | 497 c804-6 (Link to this contribution) In practice, special advisers cannot do that; I am certainly ready to consider amendments to that ef...
David Howarth | 497 c806 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Tony Wright | 497 c804 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is about setting down some fundamental principles. We think that one such principle is that...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c803 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to hear the Secretary of State's view, and I have no doubt at all that special adviser...
Jack Straw | 497 c803 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that. I was about to say that I was one of the very first such advisers, b...
Jack Straw | 497 c803 (Link to this contribution) I hope they do, but as my hon. Friend raises this point let me add that I am happy to ensure that th...
Alan Whitehead | 497 c803;497 c802-3 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the proposals to place the civil service on a statutory footing in terms of require...
Jack Straw | 497 c802 (Link to this contribution) The Bill does not ignore that debate. Its purpose is to place the existing arrangements for the civi...
Pete Wishart | 497 c802 (Link to this contribution) Although it purports to be United Kingdom-wide, the Bill regrettably ignores the constitutional deba...
Jack Straw | 497 c804 (Link to this contribution) We will, of course, keep a continuing interest in those discussions, but let me also say the followi...
Lord Beith | 497 c804 (Link to this contribution) May I put to the Lord Chancellor a point that I hope he will keep an eye on? In terms of our discuss...
Jack Straw | 497 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) I think that having the code on a statutory basis will make a difference to behaviour, because there...
Andrew Dismore | 497 c801 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the provisions in the Bill, but one small part is missing: the part that I have been promo...
Jack Straw | 497 c801-2 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern. I can tell him two things. First, he will have every opportun...
David Howarth | 497 c802 (Link to this contribution) It is surprising that the Secretary of State does not understand the proposals in great detail, give...
Jack Straw | 497 c802 (Link to this contribution) I mean that I used to be completely familiar with them. I do not retain every last detail of every i...
Keith Vaz | 497 c800 (Link to this contribution) Nobody can doubt that the Government have pursued a huge agenda on constitutional reform, but may I ...
Jack Straw | 497 c800 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the gravamen of what my right hon. Friend says. Surprisingly—or amazingly, to pick up t...
Keith Vaz | 497 c800 (Link to this contribution) It is my understanding, however, that the Bill will do the opposite of what my right hon. Friend int...
Jack Straw | 497 c800 (Link to this contribution) It removes the Prime Minister's role, but it does not remove that of the Lord Chancellor. Successive...
Jack Straw | 497 c800-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman says that we all are. That is not the problem; it is the bureaucratic...
Jack Straw | 497 c799 (Link to this contribution) I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been ...
Jack Straw | 497 c799 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. In 1997, the Government embarked on an unpr...
Kelvin Hopkins | 497 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) I very much appreciate the speech by the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie), but I assure him th...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c839-40 (Link to this contribution) I shall confine my remarks almost exclusively to part 3 of the Bill, on the House of Lords. I agree ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 497 c840 (Link to this contribution) Is not that the real problem with the House of Lords—the power of the Prime Minister to appoint peop...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c840-3 (Link to this contribution) If I did not know the hon. Gentleman better, I might believe that he was a convert to the hereditary...
Jack Straw | 497 c833 (Link to this contribution) It was my experience as Foreign Secretary, when I regarded it as offensive to this House and our dem...
Jack Straw | 497 c838 (Link to this contribution) I have a conversation with my constituents.
Keith Vaz | 497 c835-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth). I do not share his ...
Lord Wills | 497 c860 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if I have misunderstood the hon. Gentleman. Is he referring to people who are not on the ...
Philip Dunne | 497 c860 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister, who is being very fair in trying to get to the bottom of my concern. ...
Lord Wills | 497 c859 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at clause 41, which is headed "Resignation or removal of the Comptroller...
Philip Dunne | 497 c859-60 (Link to this contribution) I have read that clause, and I referred to it earlier, but if the Minister is telling me that that i...
Edward Timpson | 497 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, it is an extremely important part of the Bill. The provision is long overdue, but I ...
Philip Dunne | 497 c858-9 (Link to this contribution) I rise to cover two aspects of this subject—one included in the Bill and one not. Let me start with ...
Philip Dunne | 497 c861 (Link to this contribution) I will be very happy to provide the Minister with the specific Hansard references for the parliament...
Lord Wills | 497 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) This is an important point, and the hon. Gentleman will know from previous exchanges and corresponde...
Lord Beith | 497 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) When talking about the Justice Committee, I tend to subsume our previous existence as the Constituti...
Douglas Carswell | 497 c850-2 (Link to this contribution) This debate, I believe, illustrates what is so wrong with our constitution and demonstrates how dire...
Andrew Turner | 497 c852-4 (Link to this contribution) I wish today to address the proposals in the Bill to remove the hereditary principle of the House of...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c849 (Link to this contribution) I have just one point to make. I strongly agree with everything that the right hon. Gentleman has ju...
Julie Morgan | 497 c857 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that most civil servants are absolutely delighted that this is finally...
Edward Timpson | 497 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more on the proliferation of quangos, and also on the control that they exert and ...
Bob Spink | 497 c855 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about scrutiny of the Government. Does he share my concern that scruti...
Edward Timpson | 497 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I would be very happy to write to the Lord Chancellor with a specific example from two of the circui...
Jack Straw | 497 c856 (Link to this contribution) I should like to say two things to the hon. Gentleman about the judicial appointments process, one o...
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c865 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about the alleged difficulties of registration. However, my registrati...
Philip Dunne | 497 c865 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the first part of what the hon. Gentleman said, in that it would help if expats could r...
Peter Bone | 497 c864 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has not touched on the question of registration by service personnel overseas. At the...
Philip Dunne | 497 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for referring to armed services personnel. The Government, with the ...
Julie Morgan | 497 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I would have liked the Bill to include provision fo...
Julie Morgan | 497 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to welcome the Bill as a further stage in constitutional reform. This Government have a...
Peter Bone | 497 c866 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a powerful point about a missed opportunity. The Bill could have dealt with ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 497 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. On the tax credits episode, the special adviser in the Treasury, ...
Michael Fabricant | 497 c870 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not illustrate the difficult balance that Ministers must strike? They quit...
Lord Wills | 497 c861 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point. I wonder whether he would remind the House that it ...
Philip Dunne | 497 c862 (Link to this contribution) The arguments took place before I was a Member of this House. I have, of course, read some of the de...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 497 c862 (Link to this contribution) The Minister asks my hon. Friend what the arguments were when the House decided this. The Minister t...
Philip Dunne | 497 c862 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that comment. He has the benefit of having participated in...
Jack Straw | 497 c862 (Link to this contribution) Let me take the hon. Gentleman back to the point that my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leice...
Philip Dunne | 497 c862-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Lord Chancellor for making that point, because it takes me on to the second cat...
Michael Fabricant | 497 c863 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that if one is living abroad, one feels a sort of disengagement and fe...
Lord Wills | 497 c863 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been very generous in giving way, and I appreciate it. He raises an important...
Philip Dunne | 497 c863 (Link to this contribution) As I was saying earlier—and as my hon. Friend will have heard—I think that there is a case for sayin...
Philip Dunne | 497 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not, but I am very glad that the Minister raises that point. One challenge for any Ad...
Lord Wills | 497 c873 (Link to this contribution) I have already made the point that the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield fundamentally misrep...
David Howarth | 497 c874 (Link to this contribution) There is a new meaning of "more or less" in there somewhere, because the provisions on the Attorney-...
Lord Wills | 497 c874 (Link to this contribution) I will finish my comments on the 12 issues and then I will give way, but with all due respect to the...
Lord Wills | 497 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, because I want to address the point, if I may. I will give way to the hon. ...
Lord Wills | 497 c873 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way yet. I will give way many times, but—[Hon. Members: "You've only just starte...
Lord Wills | 497 c873 (Link to this contribution) I know that I have a bit of time, but I want to make some progress.
Jack Straw | 497 c871 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman with care on this issue. I have not done a statistical an...
Lord Wills | 497 c872 (Link to this contribution) It was out of great respect for the hon. and learned Gentleman that I tried to persuade him not to i...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c872 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said earlier that I was wrong about the national anthem, but in fact I was spot on. Lor...
Lord Wills | 497 c872 (Link to this contribution) We have heard many serious and thoughtful speeches that have treated our constitutional affairs with...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 497 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of that, and I am delighted to have the Lord Chancellor's endorsement of our gener...
Lord Wills | 497 c872 (Link to this contribution) I shall substantiate my point.
Andrew Turner | 497 c872 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Gentleman explain how someone can be in favour of the words of the national anthe...
Lord Wills | 497 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is aware, in Northern Ireland it is a separate civil service and different arr...
Mark Durkan | 497 c877 (Link to this contribution) Northern Ireland is not referred to in the relevant part of the Bill. Was there any consultation wit...
Lord Wills | 497 c874 (Link to this contribution) I am saddened to see the hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished lawyer and an intelligent man, falli...
Edward Timpson | 497 c874 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Minister back to his suggestion that the term "modest Bill" had come from the Whips? ...
Lord Wills | 497 c874 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mr. Timpson), then to the hon. and...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned the power to give directions to prosecutors. He wants to have precision in th...
Lord Wills | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) Of course I accept the hon. Gentleman's word on that. It is a great tribute to him that the right ho...
Pete Wishart | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) We have heard about the national anthem and the national motto, but whatever happened to Britishness...
Lord Wills | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, he needs to look at what the Prime Minister ...
Speaker | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister is continually using unparliamentary language.
Lord Wills | 497 c875 (Link to this contribution) Personally, I have always been very much in favour of having such a day, and I would very much like ...
Lord Wills | 497 c875-7 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do apologise. I slipped from quoting from the letter into a...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) I get ever more worried that we are moving into an Orwellian phase. I remember it as a distinct elec...
Jack Straw | 497 c811-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid that I must make progress. The Bill is before us at a time when it is perhaps more ...
Keith Vaz | 497 c838-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend engages with his constituents, and they engage with him. It is always very frie...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 497 c867-70 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak at the perhaps somewhat premature end of this debate, which has been reass...
Dominic Grieve | 497 c818 (Link to this contribution) We are going back to the treaty. I am delighted to give way.
David Leslie Taylor | 497 c860 (Link to this contribution) I may be about to repeat remarks I made in the previous debate to which the hon. Gentleman has refer...
Lord Wills | 497 c831 (Link to this contribution) I wish to pick up on a couple of specific points. We are well aware that there is a specific problem...
Philip Dunne | 497 c831 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is ranging widely on the omissions from the Bill. Does he agree that another omis...
Kelvin Hopkins | 497 c824 (Link to this contribution) Yet again, my hon. Friend is making an intelligent, interesting speech, and everything that he says ...
Lord Blunkett | 497 c816 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. and learned Gentleman would reflect on the enthusiasm that the Opposition have for ...
Jack Straw | 497 c810 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way just once, to the hon. Member for Cambridge, because I have already given way to th...
Lord Beith | 497 c844-9 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to listen to the hon. Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins), even when he...
David Howarth | 497 c833-5 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Secretary of State is open to further suggestions—the obvious one is to move to u...
Philip Dunne | 497 c860 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree on both counts. The number of people who participate in our elections from overse...
Edward Timpson | 497 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Second Reading of this Bill. I assure my hon. Frie...
Jack Straw | 497 c808 (Link to this contribution) We are not intending to introduce amendments to this Bill that would fill that gap, although we do i...

Subjects

Disciplinary proceedings
Courts
British nationality
Conduct
Devolution
Civil servants
Civil service
Diplomatic service
Attorney General
By-elections
Elections
Human rights
House of Lords
Judiciary
Electoral register
Hereditary peers
Government departments
Judges
Electoral systems
Misconduct
Northern Ireland
Public appointments
Parliament Square
Protest
Public expenditure
Parliamentary scrutiny
Politics and government
Peers
Parliament
Special advisers
Public order
National Audit Office
Overseas residence
Scotland
Tribunals
Treaties
Reform
Wales
Voting rights
Royal prerogative
Civil Service Commission

Legislation

Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill 2008-09 to 2009-10

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