Question

To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether the Procedure and Privileges Committee has considered, or will consider, how members of the House of Lords can challenge the accuracy of statements made by Ministers on the face of the Bill under section 20(3) of the Environment Act 2021.

Following the passage of the Environment Act 2021 the Procedure and Privileges Committee added a factual paragraph to the 2022 edition of The Companion to the Standing Orders (now paragraph 8.28), which summarises the procedure laid down in section 20 of that Act. The Procedure and Privileges Committee has not sought to prescribe how noble Lords can challenge the accuracy of such statements, but all the normal procedures of the House, including asking written or oral questions, tabling questions for short debate and raising issues during proceedings on Government bills, are available to them.