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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 7 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw.

House of Lords Reform

Statement on reform of the House of Lords.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
456 c843-59 
Session
2006-07
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Jeremy Corbyn | 456 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House explain why we have such an incredibly long run-in period to any improv...
Jack Straw | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) This is an opportunity to do what my hon. Friend suggests. I hope that he will support the process t...
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Lord Beith | 456 c854 (Link to this contribution) I welcome and encourage the Leader of the House’s resistance to the siren voices—whether old Conserv...
Jack Straw | 456 c854 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point. I have said previously that although, when I was Home...
Mike Hall | 456 c854 (Link to this contribution) I think that my right hon. Friend has got the matter the wrong way round. We should examine the func...
Jack Straw | 456 c854 (Link to this contribution) We have had the debate about functions and composition. Some Labour Members—perhaps my hon. Friend i...
Jack Straw | 456 c854 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s question is yes. I am grateful for his support ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to emphasise that the House must make a decision. Would not...
Nicholas Winterton | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) I fully share the views of the Father of the House and the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton ...
Jack Straw | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) Far from it. A manipulation of the defective system led to the train wreck last time. I have great r...
Jack Straw | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) The answer to my hon. Friend’s question is yes.
Alex Salmond | 456 c855 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru have recently taken a close interest in the complexion o...
Jack Straw | 456 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) There will be a free vote by three of the parties. I hope that the SNP and Plaid will also have a fr...
Fiona Mactaggart | 456 c856 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House pointed out that, on the last occasion when we considered the matter, an unh...
Alan Williams | 456 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Leader of the House knows from previous exchanges that I oppose a fully...
Speaker | 456 c852 (Link to this contribution) I call the Father of the House.
Jack Straw | 456 c852 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is saying, in traditionally extravagant language, and as he said in ...
Lord Cormack | 456 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) Speaking for the largest cross-party group in both Houses, which includes a sizeable number of Liber...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 456 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Leader of the House on having the courage to take up the subject again and gi...
Jack Straw | 456 c853 (Link to this contribution) On the last point, I hope that my right hon. Friend will be able to reflect on what is proposed in t...
Jack Straw | 456 c849 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the consultations that I have had with him and for the important...
Tony Wright | 456 c849 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my right hon. Friend will succeed with these proposals, but I know that he des...
Simon Hughes | 456 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the rather grudging response from the Conservative party, which is trying to pretend to be mo...
Jack Straw | 456 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s comment about the cross-party talks. People outside this Hous...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 456 c850 (Link to this contribution) Fifty-fifty is not substantially elected.
Gerald Kaufman | 456 c851 (Link to this contribution) May I remind my right hon. Friend that when the manifesto on which he and I were elected to this Hou...
Jack Straw | 456 c843-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on reform of the House of Lords. Acc...
Speaker | 456 c845 (Link to this contribution) Order. Members must allow the Leader of the House to make his statement. Of course, I will allow hon...
Jack Straw | 456 c847-9 (Link to this contribution) I can sum up the right hon. Lady’s comments by saying that she wants consensus and she wants reform,...
Speaker | 456 c847 (Link to this contribution) Order. I tell Mr. Bryant that he should be quiet. I asked Opposition Members to be quiet when the Le...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 456 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by thanking the Leader of the House for giving me significant advance sight of his state...
Speaker | 456 c848 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wish that right hon. Members would settle down.
Jack Straw | 456 c856 (Link to this contribution) I will do my best, and I would be grateful for my hon. Friend’s support. It is entirely legitimate f...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 456 c856 (Link to this contribution) As the Leader of the House knows, I am generally regarded as a standard bearer for reform and in the...
Jack Straw | 456 c856 (Link to this contribution) The point of proceeding with it is that the British public are not in quite the same position as the...
Andrew Love | 456 c856 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper, and congratulate my right hon. Friend on its terms, which need to be deba...
Jack Straw | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) Yes; I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments. There will be a day to determine and come to a vot...
Richard Shepherd | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) The preamble to the Parliament Act 1911 held out a better prospect than anything offered by the Lead...
Viscount Thurso | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome in general the progress made by the Leader of the House? My preference has always been...
Jack Straw | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to getting to those sunlit uplands where we can have a serious debate about the elect...
Martin Linton | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend not only on his clear set of proposals but on having the courage...
Jack Straw | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. Were the Conservative party really committed to reform, it would have no alternati...
William Cash | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has been in favour of a directly elected Chamber for about a decade, may I ask the Le...
Jack Straw | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is agreeing in part with the proposals, but exercising some disagree...
Jane Kennedy | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to contradict my right hon. and dear Friend, but the House is entitled to reject all the ...
Jack Straw | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and dear Friend—the admiration is mutual—is right in some respects, particularly towar...
Martin Salter | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) Out of affection for the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), I will mention Europe. Does my right hon....
Jack Straw | 456 c857 (Link to this contribution) I was not sure whether the hon. Gentleman was in favour of or against a fully elected Chamber. That ...
Jack Straw | 456 c858-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with almost all that the hon. Gentleman said. The cross-party group has agreed to reflect th...
Clive Efford | 456 c859 (Link to this contribution) May I caution my right hon. Friend against turning the voting procedure into ““the issue””? He seems...
Jack Straw | 456 c859 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly take that into account. I will talk to my hon. Friend about whether we should have ...
Lord Young of Cookham | 456 c859 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what I perceive to be a genuine attempt by the Leader of the House to unblock the logjam a...
Speaker | 456 c859 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move to the next business.
Edward Leigh | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House agree that there is no point in having clones of MPs in the other place...
Jack Straw | 456 c858 (Link to this contribution) The answer to my hon. Friend is yes; he is absolutely right.
Jack Straw | 456 c851 (Link to this contribution) The manifesto was clear in saying that"““we will … allow a free vote on the composition of the House...
Jack Straw | 456 c859 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct, and I am grateful to him. Just 245 Members voted for...
Subjects
Criminal records Bishops Elections House of Lords Disqualification Hereditary peers House of Lords composition Electoral systems General elections Public appointments Political parties Peers Reform Voting rights Resignations
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