Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Business of the House

Baroness Fookes Excerpts
Wednesday 4th September 2019

(4 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Tunnicliffe Portrait Lord Tunnicliffe
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That the Question be now put.

Baroness Fookes Portrait The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Fookes) (Con)
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My Lords, I am instructed by order of the House to say that the Motion “That the Question be now put” is considered to be a most exceptional procedure and the House will not accept it save in circumstances where it is felt to be the only means of ensuring the proper conduct of the business of the House. Further, if a Member who seeks to move it persists in his intention, the practice of the House is that the Question on the Motion is put without debate. Does the noble Lord still wish to move the Motion?

Lord Tunnicliffe Portrait Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab)
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I wish to move the Motion.

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Lord Cashman Portrait Lord Cashman (Non-Afl)
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My Lords, I feel I need to rise and speak to this. Sometimes our personal lives intervene in ways that we never imagined they would and this can affect our ways and means of communicating with others, even in your Lordships’ House.

Baroness Fookes Portrait The Deputy Speaker
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Am I to assume that the noble Baroness is pressing the amendment or seeking to withdraw?

Baroness Noakes Portrait Baroness Noakes
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I wish to test the opinion of the House.