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Commons Chamber
Points of Order - Thu 28 Apr 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to put that statement into the hands of Members of Parliament - Speech Link
2: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) Before we prorogue, is there some way in which I can get Ministers to pass my sincere thanks to the Secretary - Speech Link
3: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) It would be unfair to grant an emergency urgency question—I would not want to do that—but I believe there - Speech Link
4: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) I am not sure how much good it will do the Labour party to show that it has more money than sense.The - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Royal Commission - Thu 28 Apr 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) My Lords, it not being convenient for Her Majesty personally to be present here this day, she has been - Speech Link
2: None has also assigned to us and other Lords directed full power and authority in Her Majesty’s name to prorogue - Speech Link
3: None and the Commons, the short Titles of which are set forth in the Schedule hereto but the said Acts are not - Speech Link
4: None Ye that for certain pressing causes and considerations Us especially moving We have thought fit to prorogue - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Elections Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) The answer is no, we do not share that concern. - Speech Link
2: Chris Clarkson (CON - Heywood and Middleton) So do not spin the line that this does not happen. - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) In the week in which the Government intend to prorogue the House, they have voted to carry over three - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) The Government did not even do that, however. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None (or, if it is not laid before each House of Parliament on the same day, the later of the days on which - Speech Link
2: Lord Judge (CB - Life peer) bound by”—I do not think that it does, but I recognise the argument. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) The Government are clearly determined to prorogue Parliament tomorrow and not to use time later this - Speech Link

Select Committee
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Oral Evidence Apr. 26 2022

Inquiry: Post-pandemic economic growth: State Aid and Post Brexit Competition Policy
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: That is how we will judge it and how Parliament will be able to scrutinise its work as well.

Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) I do not mind how noisy the Minister is; I do not want to curtail his right to be as noisy as he likes.We - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) ensure that protests are reasonable, and do not put out the public too much. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) When people go to a demonstration, they do not know who else will be there. - Speech Link
4: None We do not need these new provisions, and the Government know it. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) However, the Bill does not do anything on that; it is about protests. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Report stage - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (CON - Life peer) have known him for over 60 years—rightly pointed out, the present Prime Minister illegally thought to prorogue - Speech Link
2: None , as it is reasonable for Parliament to do, to have regard to when going about its work, particularly - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) However, I do not believe that this is happening. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) prefer that the Government did not do it. - Speech Link

Select Committee
The Rt Hon the Lord Reed of Allermuir (President at The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), and The Rt Hon Lord Hodge (Deputy President at The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Oral Evidence Apr. 08 2022

Committee: Constitution Committee

Found: the Government could prorogue Parliament whenever they liked for as long as they liked.

Select Committee
22 March 2022

Oral Evidence Mar. 23 2022

Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debates
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Backbench Business Committee

Found: Q8Chris Green: I do not know if this would normally be in scope at this stage of the debate, but the

Commons Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) in the way that they abused the power to prorogue Parliament during that period through a disgraceful - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) I do not think it was a dreadful election—it was a brilliant election. - Speech Link
3: None be general elections, because I do not think that they were good chaps. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) This is not control being taken back by Parliament but control being taken from Parliament by the Executive - Speech Link