Clause 2 - Membership of the Commission
Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Mr John Spellar (Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office; Warley, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman seemed so friendly. It just shows that, as always with the Liberal Democrats, appearances can be deceptive. The point is that 10 years is quite a significant period and, even though I accept that there is a limited pool—that point was also made in the House of Lords—we want to engender some throughput. For that reason, we have proposed the change.