UK: System of Government

Lord Young of Cookham Excerpts

Tuesday 21st January 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen]

Obviously, the commission will need to command public confidence through its membership and the way it operates. The Government are wholly mindful of that.

[Lord Young of Cookham (Con)]

My Lords, further to the reply my noble friend has just given about the commission, is it the Government’s position that there should be no legislation on constitutional matters before the commission has met in order to get a coherent view, or is it proposed that there should be some individual measures of constitutional reform in advance of the commission considering them?

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen]

I thank my noble friend for that question. He is slightly jumping the gun, because we have a couple of reviews ongoing. We have the Dunlop review, which is looking into these matters, and the devolution White Paper. They are both due to report this year, so we will know more then.