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Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) I do not mind how noisy the Minister is; I do not want to curtail his right to be as noisy as he likes.We - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) ensure that protests are reasonable, and do not put out the public too much. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) When people go to a demonstration, they do not know who else will be there. - Speech Link
4: None We do not need these new provisions, and the Government know it. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) However, the Bill does not do anything on that; it is about protests. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Elections Bill
Report stage - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (CON - Life peer) have known him for over 60 years—rightly pointed out, the present Prime Minister illegally thought to prorogue - Speech Link
2: None , as it is reasonable for Parliament to do, to have regard to when going about its work, particularly - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) However, I do not believe that this is happening. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) prefer that the Government did not do it. - Speech Link


Select Committee
The Rt Hon the Lord Reed of Allermuir (President at The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), and The Rt Hon Lord Hodge (Deputy President at The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Oral Evidence Apr. 08 2022

Committee: Constitution Committee

Found: the Government could prorogue Parliament whenever they liked for as long as they liked.


Select Committee
22 March 2022

Oral Evidence Mar. 23 2022

Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debates
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Backbench Business Committee

Found: Q8Chris Green: I do not know if this would normally be in scope at this stage of the debate, but the


Commons Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) in the way that they abused the power to prorogue Parliament during that period through a disgraceful - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) I do not think it was a dreadful election—it was a brilliant election. - Speech Link
3: None be general elections, because I do not think that they were good chaps. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) This is not control being taken back by Parliament but control being taken from Parliament by the Executive - Speech Link


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