House of Lords Reform: Committee Membership

Lord Tyler Excerpts

Tuesday 8th June 2010 Lords Chamber

[Noble Lords]

Oh!

[Lord Tyler]

My Lords—

[Lord Grenfell]

My Lords—

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[Lord Grenfell]

My Lords—

[Lord Tyler]

My Lords—

[Lord Kakkar]

My Lords—

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[Lord McNally]

In the mean time, Labour Party representatives will be on this committee furthering what they presented to the British people at the last general election.

[Lord Tyler]

My Lords, does my noble friend recall that after the White Paper of 2008, the previous Government promised to bring forward for pre-legislative scrutiny precisely the Bill to which he is now referring, but never did so? In order to meet the concerns expressed on all sides of the House, I suggest that the sooner we get a draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny before a Joint Committee, as set out by my noble friend, the better. To accelerate that process, I would draw my noble friend’s attention—modestly—to the fact that the Second Chamber of Parliament Bill was introduced in the other House five years ago by Mr Kenneth Clarke, Mr Robin Cook, Mr Tony Wright, Sir George Young and myself.

[Lord McNally]

The building blocks for this Bill are all around us. The work has been done in many committees; I have served on three over the past 10 years. But this committee is going to do a real job of work that will allow the proper work of Parliament on its proposals.