Procedure of the House: Select Committee Report

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 6:30 pm on 24 July 2002.

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Photo of Viscount Bledisloe Viscount Bledisloe Crossbench 6:30, 24 July 2002

I should tell the noble Lord that the House that can carry over a Bill is the House that has possession of the Bill at the end of the Session. I imagine that the House of Commons could now change its procedure and carry over Bills, and we could not object. The Bills that will be carried over by this Chamber are those that are lodged in this place at the end of the Session, and in respect of which we would pass a carry-over Motion. If, whatever we say about this, the House of Commons decides to carry over its Bills in future and then restart them in the next Session, say, three-quarters of the way through, we would have no objection; indeed, no power to object.