Arrangement of Business

Debate between Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Lord Shutt of Greetland

Friday 25th November 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Shutt of Greetland]

My Lords, I am very happy for either myself or the duty Whip to intervene if we find that there is transgression, but in the end it is up to noble Lords to be self-regulating and I hope that they will be.

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords, the noble Lord may not be aware that when my Bill was put down for Second Reading I informed the Whips Office that it had never run for less than four hours and that I rather doubted that it would in the present circumstances. In those circumstances, perhaps the noble Lord would agree that his strictures should be addressed not so much to us as to those who table our business.