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Accepting hospitality

Lord Norton 15/02/2009 – 12:17 pm

The media have covered extensively the extent to which civil servants accept hositality from outside bodies.   When BBC News 24 covered the story, they showed constantly pictures of the Palace of Westminster.   This annoyed me intensely as it had nothing to do with the story.  Civil servants work in Government Departments.  It was not a story relevant to Parliament.  However, the basic issu […]

Written at 12:17 pm on 15/02/2009, by Lord Norton


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This week

Lord Norton 09/06/2008 – 6:10 pm

Both chambers will be busy on Wednesday.  There will be the usual Prime Ministers' Questions in the Commons and the House will be debating the Government's proposal for 42 days' detention without charge.  The Lords will be debating the EU (Amendment) Bill and important votes are expected, not least on the issue of a referendum. The same afternoon, in the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutio […]

Written at 6:10 pm on 09/06/2008, by Lord Norton


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Lord Falconer puts the boot in

Lord Norton 24/05/2008 – 2:33 pm

Much of the evidence we have taken in the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill has tended to be useful and rather worthy.  There has been some disagreement, as for example over whether Parliament's powers in relation to a decision to commit troops to action should be vested in statute or a parliamentary resolution, but nothing too explosive.  That changed on Wednesday when we […]

Written at 2:33 pm on 24/05/2008, by Lord Norton


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