Business of the House

Lord Barnett Excerpts

Thursday 16th February 2012 Lords Chamber

[The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally)]

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in the name of my noble friend on the Order Paper.

[Lord Barnett]

My Lords, before we turn to the instruments, which I am sure are very important, perhaps I could ask the noble Lord about an Urgent Question that I raised some weeks ago on car park access for Members of the House. I was promised then that there would be a review on 7 February. I gather that the committee met on that day but we still have not seen exactly what happened. Can the Minister tell us why it is being kept secret?

[Lord McNally]

My Lords, I think that the term “secret” is rather emotive. As I understand it, the Chairman of Committees, who is a paragon of open government, held a meeting and the minutes will be published in the usual way.