Ministerial Code Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Ministerial Code

Baroness Butler-Sloss Excerpts
Wednesday 13th February 2013

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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I am happy to write to the noble Lord but I reiterate: this is a coalition Government. Working practices have to adapt to accept that this is a coalition Government. That is what was formed in 2010; that is what I trust will continue until 2015.

Baroness Butler-Sloss Portrait Baroness Butler-Sloss
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My Lords, does the agreement between the coalition include that one party should be whipped to vote against the coalition?

Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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My Lords, we proceed case by case as we move ahead. There are a number of issues on which it is agreed that neither party will be whipped. As on the question of same-sex marriage, some issues are not whipped; however, the programme Motion in the Commons was whipped. One takes it case by case and on particularly sensitive social issues we do not have a Whip at all.