Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Bob Stewart Excerpts
Tuesday 26th March 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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What I see is an avoidance of the reality of what happened after 2010, which was that the list of appointments contained the picks of the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) and Labour became the largest party in the Lords despite having lost the general election.

Bob Stewart Portrait Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)
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If the intention of House of Lords reform was to cut the number of Lords, is it not strange that we intend to increase the number instead of reducing it by half?