Results 1-20 of 359 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Barbara Keeley

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: We have had some interesting bids. Let me turn first to the question of Committee membership, given that it seems to have been a preoccupation of much of this short debate. It was raised by the hon. Members for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) and for Castle Point (Bob Spink), my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) and the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker),...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I thank my hon. Friend for that point. We have had this debate a number of times. I think it came up when we considered the nominations to the Parliamentary Reform Committee. I do not want to intrude on the Conservative party's obvious grief, but it is up to it to decide how it does this. It was open to it to have an election, and the hon. Member for Broxbourne could have put his name...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: Indeed. I am sure that all hon. Members' points about the method of nominating Members to Committees have been heard and will be taken into account. The Labour party held an election on the Parliamentary Reform Committee, and it will be open in the future to the hon. Member for Broxbourne and his hon. Friends to nominate him, to have an election and to go forward on that basis.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: That is a comment from the hon. Gentleman to his own Front-Bench colleagues, so I shall leave them to deal with it.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: Those points have been aired well in this short debate, and I am sure that they will be taken on board. I do not know exactly how the process was gone through, but it might have been thought that, at this difficult and turbulent time—again, today, we find ourselves in such times—it was a fair idea to have people with experience of what has been happening and of the different...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I cannot help any further on that point. I am sure that all points have been made as well as possible. Let me turn to some of the other questions that have been asked in this debate. If there are any points that I cannot answer this evening, I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House will touch on them tomorrow or that we will be able to deal with them in the next...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: The hon. Gentleman refers to members of the Committee, but the nominations for the Committee is what we are discussing this evening.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: The answer is yes. Advertisements have been placed, so the process of recruiting the chair and board members is going ahead. That is very much the reason for the urgent need for the Committee to interact with the process. Some other points have been raised, about interaction with the Kelly report. We do not have the Kelly report, and I very much regret its leaking, as I am sure everyone else...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I think that the answer is yes. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is clearly an independent body—it has the word "independent" in its title. That is the key reason for moving to the new scheme and for our working so hard a couple of months ago to get the 2009 Act through. There will be consultation, but one of the new authority's key functions, as we recognised in...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: That is a matter of opinion, although I do not share the hon. Gentleman's view.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I do not think that it is our function this evening to discuss the Kelly report, but as I understand it, the report is due to be published next Wednesday. Its publication obviously involves outside printers, and there is a certain amount of work to be done. I have heard the points that have been raised this evening, but it is not a matter for this debate to do anything about that. On the...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I can do no more than say that I have been working on this, along with other people. An implementation team in the Ministry of Justice was working on setting up IPSA over the summer, and meetings and discussions have also been held with the trade unions. We had a lengthy meeting in which we discussed and noted all the concerns, but the difficulty that I have in dealing with them is that,...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: All we can say on this is that everything will move as fast as it can. Given that we only debated this in the summer, the fact that we have worked across the summer and are now appointing the board and the Committee demonstrates that we have made very good progress. I want to conclude now, as that would be fair to Members—

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I shall not take any more interventions. On the matter of urgency, I do not feel that I need to come back to this matter. We moved the Bill through Parliament and decided to create the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority because it was the view of Members on both sides of the House, as the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) said, that it was no longer...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I want to bring this to a conclusion now.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: No, I have said that I am not accepting any more interventions. I have touched on the fact that the terms and conditions for the chair and ordinary members are by statute—yours, Mr. Speaker, to decide and determine, as you have done. Hon. Members have raised a number of points about that, and I am sure that they have been listened to. The House is asked to appoint the remaining five...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: indicated assent.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: I beg to move, That Sir Stuart Bell, Liz Blackman, Nick Harvey, Mr Don Touhig and Sir George Young be appointed under Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 as members of the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority until the end of the present Parliament. Mr. Speaker, this motion, tabled in the name of my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: As I was saying, the Committee's composition and functions are defined in the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009. There are five nominees who will sit alongside three ex officio members. The first of the ex officio members is you, Mr. Speaker. The others are my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House of Commons and the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) in his...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (28 Oct 2009) has video

Barbara Keeley: No. My comments will be very brief, and there will be opportunities—