Clause 1
Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill
Public Bill Committees, 12 December 2006, 11:00 am
Douglas Hogg (Sleaford & North Hykeham, Conservative)
I certainly will.
It does nothing for the reputation of politics that a government should give their pledged word to the House of Commons and to the House of Lords and then not deliver on their pledge. I will not say that it is dishonest, simply that it is unseemly and disgraceful, and I hope that that will satisfy the decorum of this place.
There is no doubt what the House of Lords was told, and no doubt what the House of Commons was told. It is in Hansard; I have it here—I have the reports in front of me.