Monthly Archives: September 2014

Backbench Business – Select Committee on Governance of the House | Bills Presented | Commons debates

Separation, if you like. If that happens, the next 18 months and indeed for a long time after, it is going to be enormously testing of every procedure of this House. The volume of legislation…

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Backbench Business – Select Committee on Governance of the House | Bills Presented | Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman was a member of that special Select Committee, so I will give way to him.

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Backbench Business – Select Committee on Governance of the House | Bills Presented | Commons debates

I do not want to reopen the question of the Serjeant at Arms, which formed a substantial part of that Committee’s consideration. I simply say that we need a chain of command that is clear…

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Backbench Business – Select Committee on Governance of the House | Bills Presented | Commons debates

But a chief executive has overall responsibility, and the finance director is below him. I do not have a great deal of experience of commerce or business, but the experience that I do have…

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Ukraine, Middle East, North Africa and Security | Bills Presented | Commons debates

I must begin by apologising for not being present at the outset of the debate; I had a parliamentary obligation outside the House of Commons. However, at least I turned up, which is not something…

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