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Electoral Commission: Weekend Polling — Question (3 Nov 2009)

Lord Tyler: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will examine and consult on the recommendation of the Electoral Commission that election turnout could be increased by transferring polling to weekends.

Electoral Commission: Weekend Polling — Question (3 Nov 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I am truly grateful to the Minister, unusually, for that reply. Will he confirm that it is the Government's overall intention to seek ways to increase participation in elections, particularly in parliamentary elections, because that is so crucial to the future of our democracy? Will he therefore take this opportunity to say in straight terms that the proposals of officials in the...

Aviation: Air Quality — Question (27 Oct 2009)

Lord Tyler: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have evaluated the improvement in health and safety of the addition of the Quest AirManager system to prevent contamination of cabin air in BAe 146 and Boeing 747 aircraft.

Aviation: Air Quality — Question (27 Oct 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I am grateful for that Answer. Is the Minister aware that since June 2000 I have been pressing Ministers in both Houses to take this issue a great deal more seriously than has previously been the case? However, Ministers seem to have been in perpetual denial about the seriousness of this in terms of the health and safety of both cabin crews and passengers. Will the Minister now...

Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill — Order of Commitment Discharged (20 Oct 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I understand that no amendments have been set down to this Bill and that no noble Lord has indicated a wish to move a manuscript amendment or to speak in Committee. Unless, therefore, any noble Lord objects, I beg to move that the order of commitment be discharged. Motion agreed.

Gulf War 1990-91: Nerve Agent Pre-treatment Tablets — Question (13 Oct 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, can the Minister at least accept that veterans will think that this has important implications for others who may have suffered severe ill health as a result of their service in the Gulf War? As a member of the Royal British Legion Gulf War Group, I am very conscious of the extent to which veterans have been looking at tribunal decisions of this sort and assuming that they have...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Third Reading (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I had intended to say much the same thing as the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, in the Bill do now pass debate, but perhaps it would be more convenient to the House if I said something briefly now. Whatever criticism there may have been recently of Parliament, politicians and us in this House as well as Members of the other place, we should take some credit for the way in which...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Report (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, the noble Baroness the Leader of the House has referred to the Constitution Committee. We have all taken its report to the House on these issues very seriously. I must remind her again that it was that committee, in direct response to concerns about the Bill, that asked whether the Bill included a sunset clause as well as any appropriate renewal procedure and, if not, why the...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Report (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, last week, during the second day in Committee, we had a brief debate on the relative merits of two alternative arrangements for the review of the Bill after two years. The common ground between our amendment then, proposing a sunset clause, and that from the noble Baroness the Leader of the House, proposing a renewal clause, was that since the Bill had been given a fast-track...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Report (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I am very grateful to the Attorney-General. Does she acknowledge that if the Government had followed the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, which reported 10 years ago, her very comprehensive—indeed, painstaking—explanation of this situation would not be necessary? We are very grateful to her, but is it not a pity that the Government did...

Political Parties and Elections Bill: Commons Amendments (20 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: My Lords, I am afraid I still feel that the Bill is a sad example of a terribly wasted opportunity. Ministers' obsession with the illusory consensus has meant that they have never been able to step up to the mark and use the Bill to clean up big-money politics. Because they were so determined to do nothing to cause anxiety to the Conservative Party, they have ended up with doing next to...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, not only for the amendments that she has introduced but for the way in which she has dealt with this important choice. It may seem to be finely balanced, but it is an important choice, and I regret that we have had comparatively little time in Committee to examine the merits of the two approaches. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, for...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: In moving Amendment 80, I shall refer also to government Amendments 82B and 83B. At Second Reading, we all recognised that the Leader of the House was in some difficulty when dealing with a great many questions put all at once at some speed. However, she dealt with the points that were being raised on all sides of the House with admirable clarity and in a most responsive way. At col. 746, she...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: I hope that I may ask the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for specific guidance for greater clarity. The noble Lord, Lord Higgins, has drawn attention to her very helpful letter. All Members of the Committee have benefited from the very considerable detail of that letter. However, it raises questions in my mind as a layman; for example, in relation to the paragraph to which the noble...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin. It made me feel slightly less ignorant that he, too, has identified a real problem arising from the letter that the noble Baroness sent us because it seems to re-open this issue and leave it in doubt. Therefore, when she responds to this debate, I should be very grateful if the noble Baroness could put on the record precisely what the...

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: Not moved.

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: I anticipated that the noble Baroness would herself be moving that amendment. I apologise to the Committee if I did not give her the opportunity to do so.

Parliamentary Standards Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (16 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: I echo some of the points just made by the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. We, too, are concerned about the commencement provisions. No doubt the noble Baroness can answer that one in due course. We are also anxious about the question of examples. It does not seem entirely logical. There may be cases at the moment that fall within this category and cannot be referred to, but apparently she...

Parliamentary Standards Bill — Committee (1st Day) (Continued) (14 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: With great trepidation, among such distinguished legal company, may I point out a practical point which I do not think the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, or, indeed, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, have recognised? The report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, which is endorsed by Members of the other place, and a...

Parliamentary Standards Bill — Committee (1st Day) (Continued) (14 Jul 2009)

Lord Tyler: The latter, of course. I read carefully the contribution of the chairman, a very distinguished member of the Minister's party in the other place. He is anxious that your Lordships' House, in Committee, faces up to this simple recommendation. It said that, "we conclude that the Bill, as currently drafted, is incompatible with the right to a fair hearing in Article 6(1) ECHR. To render it...