Welfare Reform Bill

Viscount Ullswater Excerpts

Tuesday 4th October 2011 Grand Committee

Relevant document: 17th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Viscount Ullswater)]

If there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, this Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung, and resume after 10 minutes.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock]

I was hoping that I was not going to have to get up and that the Whips would immediately get up. I raised at the beginning of the Committee the problems that will be faced by Members of the House with severe disabilities getting down to vote in the Division Lobby if there is a Division in the House. I was assured by the Whip that there would be an indication that some arrangements had been made through the usual channels to ensure that that could be dealt with appropriately.