Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill (Twenty Sixth sitting)

Karen Lee Excerpts

Wednesday 23rd January 2019 Public Bill Committees

[The Chair]

Ms Lee, do you want to speak?

[Karen Lee (Lincoln) (Lab)]

Yes.

[The Chair]

The process is that, when Mr Khan sits down after his speech, you rise at that point to indicate that you want to speak, not later.

[Karen Lee]

I just want some guidance, please, Ms Dorries. We are on our 26th sitting and there are 16 people in a room that costs money to heat and light. On other weeks, we have perhaps had 10 or a dozen people. There is a cost to that. I would like to submit a freedom of information request to find out what the cost, on average, might have been of all those 26 sittings. Can you or anyone advise me to whom I might submit that freedom of information request, please?

[The Chair]

Obviously, you cannot do that through me. I suggest you go through the Speaker’s Office to make that request. Minister do you wish to respond?