Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

Part of Nato – in the House of Commons at 7:41 pm on 20 October 2009.

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Photo of Andrew Tyrie Andrew Tyrie Conservative, Chichester 7:41, 20 October 2009

I have just one point to make. I strongly agree with everything that the right hon. Gentleman has just said about the Attorney-General's role, but he did not make the point that it was not only the Justice Committee that came to that conclusion, but the Select Committee on Constitutional Affairs, both of which the right hon. Gentleman chaired. The Public Administration Committee also looked at the issue and came to the same conclusion. The same evidence from the same people was then heard by the Joint Committee, which extraordinarily seemed to divine from it a quite different conclusion. I think that that might say something about how the decision to withdraw that part of the Bill came to be taken.