Lord Kingsland, the Shadow Lord Chancellor, died suddenly at his home yesterday. He was 67. He had been active in the House last week, speaking on the Parliamentary Standards Bill and the Coroners and Justice Bill. He was scheduled to be on the front bench today for the latter Bill and again tomorrow for the former. …
Given the interest generated by the quiz questions, I felt it would be appropriate to introduce some reward for those who get in first with the correct answers. As a result, as I mentioned in response to answers in last week’s quiz, I am instituting a prize. Anyone who wins the quiz on three occasions will be…
The Leader of the House this morning announced that, if necessary, we would get an extra day in committee on the Parliamentary Standards Bill and that the Government would table amendments to meet some of the concerns raised in debate on Wednesday. That represents some progress but for anyone to suggest that this will enable…
The committees of the House of Lords produce some excellent reports. The report of the Science and Technology Committee on Genomic Medicine has found a fan in the form of Mark Henderson, the scientific editor of The Times. His story can be read here. The report, he says, “is a quite remarkable summary of the…
We had a five-hour debate yesterday on the Second Reading of the Parliamentary Standards Bill. It rather resembled the Second Reading debate in the Commons in that the Bill was friendless on the back-benches. Indeed, only the minister spoke in support. I made the case for insisting on the normal intervals between the stages of the Bill. …
