This week’s quiz focuses again on committees, but this time on committee members. Readers are invited to look at page 17 of The House of Lords: A Guide to Business. This shows the Constitution Committee in the last Parliament taking evidence from Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Jack Straw. The committee is chaired by Lord…
Over the years, the House of Lords has become more specialised through the use of committees. It now utilises a number of sessional (in effect, permanent) investigative select committees. The members, including the chairs, are appointed by the House. The three peers who are pictured each chair a select committee. This week’s quiz is to…
Lord Sassoon, the Treasury Minister, repeated the statement on the Comprehensive Spending Review on Wednesday afternoon. There was considerable competition to question him. Though the time was extended to allow more questions than usual, not all those who were keen to ask questions were able to do so. Pictured above are three peers who did put…
Three relatively straightforward questions for this week’s quiz. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners, though there will be a commendation for any reader supplying one or more correct answers. I plan shortly to publish a roll call of honour of our principal winners. 1. Who is…
For this week’s quiz, I thought I would again invite readers to identify peers who are pictured. However, this week there is a theme to the selection and it is, I think, much easier that last week’s. If you can identify one of the peers pictured, you can probably work out the theme and soon…
