Lord Speaker: Powers

Debate between Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist and Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

Thursday 31st January 2019 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

The noble Lord is of course a member of the Procedure Committee so he will no doubt make his views heard when a discussion is had.

[Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con)]

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, that we should be able to show courtesy to each other at Question Time. More often than not this is the case, but can my noble friend the Leader enlighten the House about how often she or her Front-Bench colleagues have to intervene to assist the House at Question Time?

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

Since July 2018 we have had 76 sitting days with Oral Questions and the Front Bench has had to intervene only 13 times.