Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Stella Creasy Excerpts
Tuesday 24th May 2011

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper), has announced in the House that we are consulting on that matter. We hope that the consultation will proceed during the summer to meet the objective in the coalition agreement of creating a register of lobbyists.

Stella Creasy Portrait Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) (Lab/Co-op)
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T8. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on the discussions he has had with his Government and party colleagues on the circumstances in which parliamentarians should be above the rule of law?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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I do not think that anyone should be above the rule of law. If we do not like the law in this place, we should act as legislators to change the law, not flout it.