Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. I am not sure that I will t...

My Lords, I have received no request to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Baroness, L...

On Thursday, on an earlier group of amendments, I thought that the Minister was correcting my quo...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 18. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

18: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I am getting increasingly concerned about the form and the forum in which we are consid...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 20 in my name. I am delighted to have the support of the nob...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Tyler. I am in much agreement wit...

Baroness Jolly. No? If the noble Baroness is not with us, we shall go on to the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 22 standing in my name and that of the noble Lords, Lord Wig...

My Lords, I support Amendment 22 in the name of my noble friend Lord Hain, who spoke so impressiv...

My Lords, I will not repeat some of the debate on the previous grouping, when my noble friend Lor...

My Lords, thank you for letting me speak. As a signatory to the amendment, I should explain a lit...

My Lords, this is a pretty odd grouping, is it not? You have one amendment on the links between c...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene on Welsh and Scottish matters, in particular on the complicatio...

My Lords, the case made for respecting communities by implementing the principle of equalisation ...

I do not believe that we have been able to recover the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, so on that bas...

My Lords, perhaps I should open by congratulating the son of the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, on his g...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Hain.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his moderate and reasoned response. However, I appeal to him a...

My Lords, I cannot give the noble Lord enormous hope of a volte-face in the Government’s position...

My Lords, I am grateful to members of the Committee for supporting my Amendment 18, particularly ...

We now come to Amendment 21. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to speak after the Minister...

Moved by

Lord Lipsey (Lab)

21: Clause 7, page 5, line 22, at end insert—

“(d) a...

My Lords, Brecon and Radnorshire, let me count the ways I love thee. It was quite a tie to come u...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for tabling this amendment to add Brecon and Radnorshire to the ...

I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Lipsey. Brecon and Radnorshire is the...

My Lords, I will be brief because I do not have the power to reminisce like my noble friend Lord ...

My Lords, there have been some very powerful contributions on what looked like a very small probl...

My Lords, we will now resume the debate on Amendment 21. However, before we do, I will explain wh...

I am very grateful. It was in fact a complete mystery to me that the House was voting, because in...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for his understanding. If something is worth saying, it is wo...

I am not sure whether the Deputy Chairman is inviting me to say everything I am about to say twic...

I thank all noble Lords for their comments this afternoon on Wales in general and on Brecon and R...

We have had no requests to speak after the Minister so I call on the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey.

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate and particularly those who have ...

Does the Minister wish to come back on that point?

I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey. I will talk to the department and I am sure that we c...

Thank you.

Excellent.

That concludes the Committee’s proceedings on the Bill. I remind Members to sanitise their desks ...