Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Excerpts

Tuesday 5th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[The Deputy Prime Minister]

I am aware that the Treasury is undertaking a consultation on that subject, but it did not come up in discussions at the British-Irish Council.

[Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest) (Con)]

Pursuant to the answer that the Deputy Prime Minister has just given to the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr Reid), does the Deputy Prime Minister not understand that his constant answer that negotiations with Commonwealth countries about reforming the Act of Settlement are ongoing sounds rather like an excuse for inaction, given that no Commonwealth country has shown anything but respect, reverence and adoration for our female monarch for the past half century?

[The Deputy Prime Minister]

I strongly share my hon. Friend’s—