Queen’s and Prince of Wales’s Consent

Part of Nature – in the House of Commons at 2:54 pm on 24 February 2015.

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Photo of Thomas Docherty Thomas Docherty Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 2:54, 24 February 2015

I will be even briefer than I have been by my standard today; we have important business to discuss.

I thank the Procedure Committee for its work. It is right that the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee offered no substantive evidence requiring signification by a Privy Counsellor in person had delayed Bills—Governments have found enough ways to hold up Bills that they do not particularly like—and we therefore think this is a sensible way forward.