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Business of the House (19 Nov 2009)

Douglas Hogg: May I ask the Leader of the House to introduce a timetable motion next week to extend the time for debate on the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill? Will she accept that one reason why Parliament is held in such low esteem is that it is correctly seen that we are not performing our function properly, especially with regard to holding the Executive to account and scrutinising...

Business of the House (19 Nov 2009)

Douglas Hogg: A written statement.

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: That is not what I was saying. I was saying that when there is a cocktail of events—in the case I cited, they included the sexual infidelity that formed the background, together with abuse and taunting of the defendant—the combination is capable of amounting to an appropriate trigger. Incidentally, that is also the view of the Law Commission, and when it took that question out to...

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: Are the Government not saying that the judge must direct the jury that it must disregard questions of sexual infidelity?

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: I think that my right hon. and hon. Friends wish to contribute to the debate, as perhaps do some Labour Members, so I shall be brief and compress my remarks to something shorter than I originally had in mind. The law of provocation has always been one of the most difficult aspects of the law of homicide, and over the years it has given rise to a great deal of judicial comment and controversy....

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: What my hon. and learned Friend has said is, in fact, the considered view of the Law Commission, which eventually decided not to impose the formulae advocated by the Minister, but to leave it to the good sense of the judge to determine what could properly be left to the jury.

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: The hon. Lady will know that, in 2004, the Law Commission published its report "Partial Defences to Murder" and, prior to that, a consultation paper. I am not aware that either document suggested that sexual infidelity should be removed from the classes of conduct capable of amounting to the defence of provocation, should the jury so decide.

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: The Minister is slightly misunderstanding my point, and that might be my responsibility. The point that I am making is that the Law Commission did not—either in its final report or in its consultation document—suggest that sexual infidelity should be excluded from the classes of case that were capable of amounting to provocation.

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: Page 65 of what?

Bill Presented: Clause 45 — Meaning of "qualifying trigger" (9 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: I have the Law Commission's report here.

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I associate myself with what has been said by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) and the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath)? This is an important Bill, but, goodness knows, it could be a much more important Bill. I would venture to say that most of the most important propositions that are placed before the House are in the new clauses and, as...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: The Secretary of State is being less attentive than he normally is. The truth is that one has to determine a timetable motion in the context of the amendments and new clauses that were on the Order Paper when the timetable motion came to be considered. No doubt when this motion was first debated, the House had not determined the exact character of the new clauses and amendments. Now we have;...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: My hon. and learned Friend is quite right. The knives are even more mischievous when we have two important statements taking up part of the time for debate. Moreover, the principle of the knives is incompatible with carry-over motions. As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome properly said, there is a carry-over motion, which suggests that the Government want some business to be discussed,...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: Indeed. I have no doubt that when we come to the third and fourth days, whenever they might be, we will find that yet more important business has been shuffled into the programme. The truth is that this House is being denied an opportunity to make very important changes to the constitution, or, if it is not ready to make them, at least to debate them. I am afraid that this Government like to...

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: Irrespective of whether or not the Bill is modest in itself, does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is a vehicle to which this House and its Members can add very substantially, if that is what this House wants?

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: Will my hon. and learned Friend also make the point that it is profoundly undemocratic for important constitutional measures to be cobbled together by the two Front-Bench teams and for Members to be denied the opportunity to debate such matters on the Floor of the House?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Banking Reform (3 Nov 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: The Chancellor has made it plain in respect of the restructuring of Lloyds and RBS that bids will be confined to the smaller competitor or new entrants to the market. Does not that mean that a lower price will be obtained than would have been the case if the ability to bid were more widespread, so this approach will involve a loss to existing shareholders and, surely, to the taxpayer?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Nimrod Review (28 Oct 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I say to the Secretary of State that I accept that he is deeply distressed by the report and will do his best to implement the recommendations? May I also say that many of us fear that the long-standing disregard for safety, arising out of a concern for savings, may extend right across the MOD budget—for example, into the military budget, including armoured vehicles and the...

Business of the House (22 Oct 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I ask the Leader of the House for a debate entitled "The Recording of Pecuniary Interests by Members Voting"? She will have read Mr. Speaker's statement and will know that I, for example, have a pecuniary interest in Equitable Life. There is no way in which Members who are voting can declare that pecuniary interest. It is very unsatisfactory and the public will not understand it. May we...

Nato: Royal Mail (20 Oct 2009)

Douglas Hogg: Will the right hon. Gentleman take every opportunity to impress upon trade union leaders that in view of the changes in technology and information communication their only future lies in accepting fundamental and continuing change, and that being so, they do not enjoy public support?