1-1 of 1 results for subject:"House of Commons"
Librarians' tools
- Search time
- 0.375 seconds
- Solr query time
- 0.004 seconds
- Search query
- subject:"House of Commons"
- We searched for
- subject_t:"House of Commons" OR subject_t:HC OR subject_t:House OR subject_t:UKC OR subject_ses:25259
Type
House
Session
Year
Department
Member
Primary member
More
McNally, Lord (1)
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
My Lords, I endorse the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. I hope, and I hope that the noble Baroness agrees, that all Members of this House will make a real success of the innovation of questions to Secretaries of State sitting in this House.
I approached this Question with some trepidation because I thought I was going to have to disagree with the noble Baroness, Lady Boothroyd, but hers is a timely warning. The Cunningham committee, which I sat on, reported that the strength of both Houses was their differences in procedures and practices. We should be careful before we start blurring the edges.
My Lords, I endorse the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. I hope, and I hope that the noble Baroness agrees, that all Members of this House will make a real success of the innovation of questions to Secretaries of State sitting in this House.
I approached this Question with some trepidation because I thought I was going to have to disagree with the noble Baroness, Lady Boothroyd, but hers is a timely warning. The Cunningham committee, which I sat on, reported that the strength of both Houses was their differences in procedures and practices. We should be careful before we start blurring the edges.
Asked by
Lord McNally
(Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 January 2010
My Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right. It is for this House to make a success of this new opportunity for questioning Secretaries of State. It is important that we have procedures at this end which are different and distinct from those in the other place. The questions that we will be putting to the Secretaries of State from next week onwards constitute a very different procedure from the procedure in the House of Commons, and I welcome that difference.
Subjects
House of Lords; House of Commons; Parliamentary procedure; Secretaries of state; Oral questions
Date
7 January 2010
Reference
716 c200
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords