Debates between Meg Hillier and Lord McLoughlin during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Tue 4th Jun 2019

Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill (Second sitting)

Debate between Meg Hillier and Lord McLoughlin
Meg Hillier Portrait Meg Hillier
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I will not press my amendment to a vote on this occasion. I hear what the Minister says; the Sponsor Body is an unusual body. In the time that I have had available, we have not yet settled how we will deal with election, but I think I have laid a marker. As my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda says, we believe in elections; I get the impression that Conservative Members do, too. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Lord McLoughlin Portrait Sir Patrick McLoughlin
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I beg to move amendment 5, in schedule 1,Ā pageĀ 10,Ā lineĀ 25, at end insert—

ā€œ(2A) A person who has already gone through a fair and open competition to be appointed chair of the shadow Sponsor Body will be deemed already to have met the requirement in paragraph 2(2) above.ā€

This amendment would allow the chair of the shadow Sponsor Body to be appointed chair of the Sponsor Body without the need for a new recruitment exercise.