Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

Debate between Lord Alderdice and Baroness Jay of Paddington

Wednesday 14th September 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Alderdice]

My Lords, I am sorry, but the reality is it is not a fixed-term Parliament. Members were elected to a Parliament on the old system—quite a different matter.

[Baroness Jay of Paddington]

I ask the noble Lord, through the Minister, whether it is therefore the Government’s position that all the arguments and discussions we had about no-confidence Motions—as they related historically and as they will, presumably, be affected under the fixed-term Parliament legislation—will not apply to this Parliament before 2015.