Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Harriett Baldwin and Iain Stewart

Monday 21st May 2012 Commons Chamber

[Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)]

2. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the permanent cap on non-EU work migrants after its first year of operation.

[Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South) (Con)]

4. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the permanent cap on non-EU work migrants after its first year of operation.

Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill

Debate between Harriett Baldwin and Iain Stewart

Friday 9th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[Harriett Baldwin]

I am sure that colleagues on the Government side of the House are absolutely delighted that my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) is the Prime Minister.

[Iain Stewart]

I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on having proceeded this far with her Bill. Does she accept that if the Bill became law, we could introduce measures that would protect England without barring any Member from voting on legislation? I refer to the idea put forward by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) and others for a double majority system in which Bills that applied only to one territorial part of the United Kingdom would require the support both of the whole House and of Members from that territorial part in order to be passed.

[Harriett Baldwin]

My hon. Friend is absolutely correct; there has been a substantial body of work looking at exactly how to resolve this question without creating the completely impossible situation of having two classes of MP.