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Debate between Lord Stoddart of Swindon and Lord Radice(12 years, 3 months ago)
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Debate between Lord Stoddart of Swindon and Lord Radice(13 years ago)
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Lord Stoddart of Swindon
My Lords, we are in Committee and it is not necessary for noble Lords to interrupt or question the Minister on the basis that he has not yet sat down when in fact he has. It is in the power of noble Lords to intervene at any time unless there is closure or we have become fed up with discussing the issue. Now that I am doing so, I have just one final question.
The noble Lord, Lord Davies, appears to think that transferring a matter from one Bill, whether it is by a previous Government or a sitting Government, to another is out of order. Transferring that item from a Bill by the previous Government in relation to the very important Lisbon treaty is the sensible thing to do because it brings forward the protection that that Government made to this Government, who, by agreeing to it, confirm that it is good for Parliament and is proper to have in the Bill.
Lord Radice
I should like to raise a matter of pure curiosity. Did the previous Government’s Bill refer to a referendum, as does this clause?