Liaison Committee

Lord Marlesford Excerpts

Thursday 12th March 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Marlesford (Con)]

My Lords, if I may suggest a reason why the Liaison Committee is not the best body to decide what ad hoc issues are discussed relating to international affairs, it is that those of us who have been on the EU Select Committee and its sub-committees for a number of years—I am sure that this applies to other standing committees—spend a great deal of time on those committees considering what subjects we should look at next. The expertise of those committees is what produces the next subject. With great respect to the Liaison Committee, I do not think that it has that same expertise.

[Lord Cormack (Con)]

My Lords, there is only one answer to this: this House should decide whether we have such a committee.