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Lords Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Report stage - Wed 09 Feb 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None The courts should not and do not have any jurisdiction to interfere with proceedings in Parliament. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Lympne (CON - Life peer) that hobbled Government, which did no good whatever to Parliament or the country.I do not understand - Speech Link
3: Lord Norton of Louth (CON - Life peer) What it can do is not necessarily what it should do. - Speech Link
4: Lord Trevethin and Oaksey (CB - Excepted Hereditary) That is why I intend to prorogue for an unusually long period of time.” - Speech Link
5: None Dealing with the question of “purported”, Boris Johnson plainly purported to prorogue Parliament. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Judicial Review and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) If people do not like a Government, they can vote them out. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Lympne (CON - Life peer) If the other place had wished to prevent the Prime Minister from exercising the prerogative to prorogue - Speech Link
3: Lord Judge (CB - Life peer) The words“any other matter that appears to the court to be relevant”do not do the trick. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) point is that the courts are not obligated to do so. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
The Crown and the constitution - CBP-8885
Feb. 04 2022

Found: We do not accept any liability whatsoever for any errors, omissions or misstatement s contained herein


Select Committee
Attorney General's Office

Oral Evidence Jan. 28 2022

Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: Parliament had not had any say on that issue.


Lords Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Committee stage - Tue 25 Jan 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) I have no idea, but he did not do so. - Speech Link
2: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) If Parliament tries to do things that do not have majority support, the majority has all sorts of ways - Speech Link
3: None In this system we do not elect a Government. - Speech Link
4: None We all know that when you do not have fixed terms, Prime Ministers and Parliament will choose an election - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) , analogous to the limit imposed on the power to prorogue Parliament in Miller II, and in effect require - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Legislation: Skeleton Bills and Delegated Powers - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Andrews (LAB - Life peer) Why else would they have introduced attempts to prorogue Parliament, or indeed to strip out treaty obligations - Speech Link
2: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) Sitting days for Parliament are not mentioned. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) , and I do not think that was the consensus today. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I do not agree with my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts that this debate would not - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) I do not wish to pre-empt the Government’s response today. - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Correspondence)
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate

Dec. 21 2021

Source Page: Human Rights Act: letter to the Lord Chancellor
Document: Human Rights Act: letter to the Lord Chancellor (webpage)

Found: are not reserved to the UK Parliament by the Scotland Act 1998.


Scottish Government Publication (Correspondence)
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate

Dec. 21 2021

Source Page: Human Rights Act: letter to the Lord Chancellor
Document: Human Rights Act: letter to the Lord Chancellor (PDF)

Found: As you know, human rights as a subject matter are not reserved to the UK Parliament by the Scotland


Select Committee
Tenth Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Judicial Review and Courts Bill

Inquiry Publications Dec. 07 2021

Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: to do so.


Lords Chamber
Ministerial Code - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) Minister issued the latest version on almost the same day when he advised Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) be made in the first instance, in Parliament.” - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Personally, I am proud to be a Member of my right honourable friend’s Government, and I do not share - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) as it is the Prime Minister’s responsibility to update the manual, has he been asked whether he will do - Speech Link
5: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) Is it not better to have strict rules so that diplomacy and tweeting do not become confused? - Speech Link