Blimey, I must have been a member of a different Joint Committee to that on which Lord Tyler served. A 26-member committee (in practice 25, as one member never attended) is too large a body for sustained scrutiny. It facilitates disparate questioning and may actually militate against a good attendance (once or twice we were inquorate…
When I was a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Renewal Bill, we occasionally had problems maintaining a quorum. Under the rules for a quorum, three MPs had to be present; this in some meetings proved difficult to maintain. When there was just three in attendance and one rose to leave (it was…
On Wednesday, the House will be invited to approve the motion appointing the peers who are to serve on the Joint Committee on the draft House of Lords Reform Bill. The names of the nominees in both Houses have now been published. I have listed them here. The natute of the measure has resulted in…
