Arrangement of Business

Debate between Lord Palmer and Baroness Anelay of St Johns

Tuesday 18th December 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Anelay of St Johns]

My Lords, I agree entirely with the noble Lord, Lord Prescott. The matter of urgency was impressed on me by the delegation.

[Lord Palmer]

My Lords, does not the Chief Whip agree that the noble Lord, Lord Trees, ought to be given a letter of apology? He has gone through the agony of having to wait to make his maiden speech, but now he has had to postpone it. That really is pretty agonising.

[Baroness Anelay of St Johns]

My Lords, I think that perhaps the noble Lord, Lord Trees, in waiting to make his maiden speech, has seen how self-regulation takes place in this House. Sometimes the rules are so elastic that no one can predict the way in which our debates may extrapolate and develop into new realms.