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Written Question
House of Lords: Accountability
Monday 27th November 2023

Asked by: Greg Knight (Conservative - East Yorkshire)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward proposals to implement the recommendations in the Third Report of the House of Commons Procedure Committee of Session 2009-10 on Accountability to the House of Commons of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords, HC496, which was published on 22 March 2010.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

The Procedure Committee has announced an inquiry into this issue and it would not be appropriate for me to pre-empt the conclusions of that inquiry.

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