Procedure of the House (Proposal 3)

Lord Harris of Haringey Excerpts

Tuesday 8th November 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Lucas]

My Lords, since we cannot even squeeze the name of the person speaking in Grand Committee onto the television screen, I doubt if we can fit 25 words on it.

[Lord Harris of Haringey]

My Lords, a simple arrangement would be to have a surtitle over the Throne so that anyone could look at it up there.

[Lord Geddes]

My Lords, I am all for paucity of words and the concept of limiting supplementaries to 25 words is thoroughly admirable, but that is not the point of this proposal. In that respect, I think that noble Lady, Lady Saltoun, has done the House a good service with her initial intervention. I certainly am not in favour of wasting the House’s time even further.