Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, leave out “2031” and i...

My Lords, I also speak to Amendment 3 in my name. Amendment 2, if agreed to, would move the next ...

My Lords, the Bill sets out a system for reviewing constituency boundaries which will result in c...

My Lords, I apologise for not participating in Committee, having spoken at Second Reading, but I ...

I have little to add to what I have heard. It is important that changes to constituencies are not...

My Lords, I spoke at Second Reading but not in Committee, but I have been following the Bill’s pr...

My Lords, I support the amendment and I want to focus on one particular point. The Minister, in r...

My Lord, I believe that it is sensible to have more frequent boundary reviews than those being pr...

It is always a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Shrewsbury, not least because of his own a...

My Lords, I agree very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, has just said about the emph...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Foulkes and all noble Lords who have spoken today on these...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to change the timings of boundary reviews so that a review would b...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate which has served to convince me that we were absolu...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 20, leave out “As soon as re...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 6 in my name, which is reinforced by the names of my noble frie...

The noble Lord, Lord Randall of Uxbridge, has withdrawn from this group, so I call the next speak...

My Lords, I will be brief, taking full advantage of the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Young of C...

My Lords, I am delighted to welcome this amendment and to add my name to it. I can also be brief ...

My Lords, I certainly support this amendment; without it the Bill would have been based on a fals...

My Lords, not for the first time I find myself very much in sympathy with the points made by the ...

My Lords, before I comment on this amendment, can I pick up on what two noble Lords have said? Wh...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, has brought some very important, practical questions to y...

My Lords, we do not need to detain the House on an amendment where everything has been said and h...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. The House will not object if I s...

I have received a request from the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, to ask a short question for eluci...

My Lords, this is not a question as such. I want to commend my noble friend Lord Hayward for ment...

Does the Minister wish to respond?

My Lords, I do not think I need to add anything, except to say that I share my noble friend’s aff...

My Lords, I can be brief. I join the Minister in thanking all noble Lords who have taken part in ...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

7: Clause 2, page 2, line 26, at end insert—

“(1...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 11. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

11: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, Amendment 11 seeks to put in place matters essential to dealing with the important cons...

I support the amendment in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas; I do so because t...

My Lords, I was unable to take part in the Second Reading or the Committee stage of the Bill, but...

My Lords, first I comment on the reference by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, to “party ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Humphreys, has withdrawn from the debate on this group, so I call the ne...

My Lords, I support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and I encourage him to p...

My Lords, when the Constitution Committee considered the Bill, we took the view that the removal ...

My Lords, as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has argued, the amendment refle...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Beith, said, our Constitution Committee accepted the move from ...

My Lords, there is a short period in the life of a Minister between being thanked by your Lordshi...

I have received a request to ask a short question for elucidation from the noble Lord, Lord Corma...

My Lords, I have a very short question for my noble friend, to whom I have listened with great ca...

My Lords, the matter before the House is whether the system for England and Wales is sufficient a...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this interesting debate and, in particular, I ...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 12. I have to inform your Lordships t...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

12: After Clause 5, insert the following new...

My Lords, technically I rise to move Amendment 12, in the name of my noble friend Lord Lennie and...

My Lords, our own amendment in this group is Amendment 14 in my name and that of my noble friend ...

The noble Lord, Lord Hain, and the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, have withdrawn, so I call the nob...

My Lords, I shall speak to my noble friend’s amendment and I agree with every word she said. I do...

My Lords, I very much agree with previous speakers on this group of amendments and support Amendm...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Hayter in her amendment and have added my name to the im...

My Lords, it was a delight to hear the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, move the amendment. I recall ...

My Lords, I think parliamentary language allows me to use the term, balderdash. In a stroke, the ...

My Lords, I am entering the debate on this group of amendments and speaking to them because I am ...

My Lords, I am not going to go back over all the arguments about 7.5%, 5%, 10% and so on; they ha...

My Lords, I cannot understand why the Government continue to insist on this reduction in the vari...

My Lords, I speak briefly against the amendments in this group.

As I said in my remarks on ...

My Lords, these amendments are about equity and fairness—or, rather, inequity and unfairness.

My Lords, in 2013 and 2018 plans for revisions to constituency boundaries were published. They di...

My Lords, it has been another long and interesting debate and I am grateful to all noble Lords wh...

I agree completely with the Minister that the union is most successful, and that we want to stay ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

13: After Clause 5, insert the following new...

As I indicated, in moving Amendment 13, I wish to test the opinion of the House.

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 15. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Lord Tyler

15: Clause 6, page 5, line 2, at end insert—

“( ) After rul...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 15 in my name. Again, I am delighted to have the support o...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak to this amendment, so ably moved by the noble Lord, Lord Tyle...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bourne. While he was a Minister i...

My Lords, we have heard a Cornish voice that is almost as loud, although obviously not as musical...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to this short debate. Its brevity does not...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all Members who contributed to this short debate, particularly th...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 16. I remind noble Lords that Members, other tha...

Moved by

Lord Shutt of Greetland

16: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 16 as an important enhancement of the Bill, which would improve...

My Lords, I want to say a few words in support of the amendment, to which I have put my name.

My Lords, I too—alongside the noble Lord, Lord Wills, who has just spoken—was a member of the Sel...

My Lords, I back this amendment with some vigour as the last of a cross-party group of colleagues...

My Lords, in the debate on this Bill in the other place on 14 July, the Minister Chloe Smith spok...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate.

It has already been mentioned t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who tabled this amendment. It provides an opportunity ...

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

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who spoke in favour of this amendment, which is everybody bar t...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 17. I remind noble Lords that Members...

Moved by

Lord Lipsey

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

“(d) a const...

My Lords, we have had a long, hard afternoon and tummies are rumbling, so I genuinely will not de...

My Lords, my apologies—I was momentarily distracted. I thought the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, had c...

I have stopped. No word issues from my mouth.

I wonder if the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, could repeat what he just said. I am afraid I was unable...

No words are issuing from my mouth. I have finished; I have stopped; I am ended.

Could the noble Lord confirm whether he intends to move his amendment?

I intend to withdraw it after the Minister’s reply.

My Lords, I think—I think—I was right the first time and the amendment has been proposed.

My Lords, I am delighted to support the noble Lord on this amendment and to introduce my own amen...

My Lords, I wish to speak briefly to both amendments in this group. In Committee, I spoke to the ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, has withdrawn from the debate and so I call the nobl...

My Lords, these amendments draw attention yet again to the problems caused by any attempt to impo...

My Lords, I must declare an interest, in that my grandfather was from Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa in...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken to these amendments. It has been a very good gatherin...

My Lords, again I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. First, I say to the noble ...

My Lords, I think that the friends of Brecon and Radnorshire should have a good party when corona...