Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2021

Lord Haskel Excerpts

Monday 6th December 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op)]

I object.

[The Deputy Speaker (Lord Haskel) (Lab)]

Is the noble Lord objecting to agreeing them en bloc?

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op)]

Yes.

[The Deputy Speaker (Lord Haskel) (Lab)]

My Lords, the Minister’s Motion to move these Motions en bloc has been objected to.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op)]

My Lords, I exercised the right that all noble Lords have to object to Motions being taken en bloc, not because I object to these two particular Motions being taken en bloc but because I object to the fact that, when the Leader of the House made a business statement earlier today, no other Member of the House was able to ask questions or make any comments. Yet it was a very substantial statement, and some of us wanted to point out that we object to decisions about who should speak virtually and who should speak in the Chamber being taken by a party-political representative—the Leader of the House—rather than by the Speaker. I was not able to make that comment; others wanted to make similar comments. I would like the Deputy Speaker, and anyone else who can, to raise the matter with the Lord Speaker, and I will do so myself. Perhaps the Minister will too. The issue is why there was no opportunity to question the Leader of the House when she made that business statement.