It has been another of those weeks. Yesterday was especially hectic, similar to Wednesday of last week (Constitution Committee, Association of Conservative Peers, Sub-Committee E of the EU Committee, Grand Committee on the Political Parties and Elections Bill, and a seminar with my students) but with the addition of giving evidence to the Information Committee…
A couple of quiz questions. Peer 1 I did a politics degree at Leeds. I served as director of a major Trust. I have held major positions relating to civil servants, judges and to parole. Who am I? Peer 2 I boxed at Oxford. I have held ministerial office. My title has varied depending on where…
The Health Bill is presently going through the Lords. Clause 19 bans shops from displaying cigarettes: “A person who in the course of a business displays tobacco products, or causes tobacco products to be displayed, in a place in England and Wales or Northern Ireland is guilty of an offence”. It is a subject on…
I had some success in Committee on the Political Parties and Elections Bill yesterday in moving an amendment to stipulate that the Secretary of State must reply within six months to a report from the Electoral Commission. Under the Political Parties. Elections amd Referendums Act 2000, the Commission may make reports to the Secretary of…
The Committee stage of the Political Parties and Elections Bill began yesterday and continued today. As I already had a fairly full diary for both days, it has been a case of rushing in and out of committee and from meeting to meeting. Yesterday’s schedule was basically: in early to complete a memorandum to the Information…
