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Written Question
Lord Chancellor
Monday 19th December 2016

Asked by: Lord Kinnock (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to amend the Oath of Office of the Lord Chancellor to "defend the independence of the judiciary" as contained in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)

There are no plans to amend the Oath.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Nov 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Nov 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"I am grateful to my old friend, the noble Lord, for giving way; I would expect nothing less. I also applaud him for introducing to the debate a specific instance in the case of his grand-daughter to illustrate that fact that youngsters in Scotland voted with great responsibility and not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2014
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 15 Mar 2012
Freedom of Information Act 2000

"Can the Minister tell us of any measure of the dimensions of the Health and Social Care Bill, with such direct effect on the organisation of a life-and-death service, that has been protected by any Government’s evasion of the responsibility to publish risk registers? This is not a matter of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 01 Nov 2011
Legal System: Translation and Interpreting Services

"My Lords, no one is arguing for simple maintenance of the status quo. When over half of the qualified people in this profession have made it clear that they are unwilling to register with a new body under the new framework because it implies cuts of up to 70 per …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 May 2011
Elections: Alternative Vote System

"Will the Minister confirm that in 90 years of using alternative voting in Australia, no one has ever proposed or used machines for voting or counting under such a system? Will he also confirm that if there were alternative voting in a general election in this country, there is no …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Feb 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"Contrary to the fears expressed by some noble Lords in our previous debate, the reduction by 25 per cent of the number of Welsh Members of Parliament would not immediately lead to further feelings favouring secession. The consequence would in some ways be even more serious. By cutting the number …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Feb 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"Does the Minister accept that he can offer what we could call the Swansea-Aberdeen question in the form in which he puts it only because, without an electoral mandate, this Government are proposing to cut the number of seats in the House of Commons at one cut by 50 seats, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"Just to underline and illuminate the point that my noble friend made in passing about the south Wales valleys, I report to him the words of the late Alec Jones, who, as the noble Lord will recall, was the Member for Rhondda, having been a Member for Rhondda West, which …..."
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