The House yesterday agreed a report from the Procedure Committee recommending that, if there is a Secretary of State in the House, then on one Thursday every month, when the House is sitting, 15 minutes should be set aside for three oral questions to the Secretary of State immediately following the existing 30 minutes for…
Some rather misleading figures have been bandied about in terms of the costs of the House of Lords, both in terms of the overall costs of the House and what allowances individual members may claim. I may do a separate post commenting on costs, but in the interim I thought I would post a statement…
The debate on enhancing Parliament’s ability to communicate with the public was held yesterday. What was remarkable was the number of peers who contributed, not least given that it was the last debate before we rose for Christmas. I gather it was the best supported debate prior to the Christmas recess since we began using…
