Business of the House (Today)

The Government have brought forward this debate so that the House can consider legislation to ens...

What a shambles! What complete chaos! The Justice Secretary is scuttling away and will not even s...

This is a disgraceful way of going about a very important matter. It is tainted with chicanery. I...

indicated dissent.

I am sorry that the Home Secretary is shaking her head, because she knows perfectly well that thi...

It is a pleasure to follow the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee. I co-signed a letter ...

From time to time during my career here, the procedures of the House have stood in the way of its...

Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

I cannot give way.

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I am not an expert on procedure, Mr Speaker, but I understand what is happening here.

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Order. I am trying to listen intently to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I hope I have not ...

We learn something new every day, Mr Speaker.

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He can have his way: all he needs to do is...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

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If the right hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me, I will take the point of order from the ...

It might help the House to know that, as I explained in my remarks, tonight’s motion extends the ...

That, Mr Speaker, is also my understanding. It is equally my understanding that there is consider...

The right hon. and learned Member for North East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) spoke very wisely. H...

Many of us thought that we would have an opportunity today to debate the very weighty question of...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he has said. Let me simply say, for the convenience and...

It looks like it, Mr Speaker.

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful to you for the suggestion that you have just ...

That is very cheeky indeed. Other Members might wish to speak in the debate. It is not only Front...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am one of those who were waiting to speak, but I would happily...

That is very generous of the hon. Gentleman, and I think that it will be taken by the House in th...

There are many differences over the European arrest warrant, as there are bound to be. They are l...

If I remember correctly, Maine’s “Ancient law” makes the observation that justice lies in the int...

In my 31 years in this Chamber I have never seen the nonsense we have got this afternoon ever hap...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. It is quite clear that the Government Whips and those on the Tre...

I understand what people are saying, but procedure does allow other colleagues to speak and I do ...

This really is a sorry day for the Government. The motion to allocate time was tabled on the basi...

We have heard a wide range political views, but I think that everyone here today is unanimous in ...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes a point that is, as always, worth listening to, but he is ...

Is my hon. Friend aware of the irony that as we approach the 800th anniversary celebration of Mag...

I agree with my right hon. Friend; we should be having the time to debate the issues that really ...

I would not want the hon. Gentleman to leave the Liberal Democrats out of his list. Those of us w...

I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point, because I hope it brings home to...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You have said on a couple of occasions, in response to Members o...

It would be normal for the Home Secretary to speak either at the beginning or at the end of the d...

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I quite accept that it is not normal procedure, but a...

I can see the force of that proposition. If other Members are prepared to exercise a self-denying...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I just want to focus the Home Secretary’s mind, if I may. I find myself in...

The right hon. Gentleman might wish to correct the record. I can assure him that we, like him, wi...

Well, let us have that argument. First, let me offer the Home Secretary a way out. For the purpos...

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I will give way in a moment.

If we do that and the programme motion is defeated, we will, a...

indicated assent.

I see the Chairman of the 1922 Committee nodding his head. Let those Members have that debate. Le...

I thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity to speak on the business motion.

The Lisbon tr...

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No, I will not give way. Members have been calling for me to stand up and speak, and that is exac...

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No, I say to my hon. Friend and to the right hon. Lady that I have been asked to explain the Gove...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This House agreed that the Home Secretary should speak so that s...

No, no, no. The Home Secretary is entitled to say—and she will say—what she thinks, and the House...

I have made it clear that there was no requirement under the Lisbon treaty or any legislative req...

The Home Secretary seems to think that the House should be grateful for what we have got, but she...

If the right hon. Lady will just let me continue, I will explain further to the House. As I have ...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am not sure that the Home Secretary was listening earlier when...

I think that I referred to the requirement for Members to deploy some ingenuity, and I gave quite...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am clear that it is possible in the debate on the regulations to discuss...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

No.

The European arrest warrant is not on that list because it does not need to be transpos...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As we are talking about the liberties of the subject, this is a ...

Order. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point or order. What Members think is indicati...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. In fact, I was attempting to be as clear as you have been that the vote on...

Mr Speaker, you pointed out how unusual it was for the Government also to reply to debates on a b...

I think I have set out the position clearly and there is nothing at this stage for me to add, but...

Indeed, Mr Speaker.

Question put.