Results 1–20 of 200 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Baroness Adams of Craigielea

Devolved Administrations: 20th Anniversary - Motion to Take Note (22 May 2019)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley. I agree with her and my noble friend Lord Foulkes that we need some kind of constitutional commission to look at the devolution of the whole UK. One of the problems with devolution is that we have taken it piece by piece, area by area and country by country, but we have never looked at the whole. This has caused...

Devolved Administrations: 20th Anniversary - Motion to Take Note (22 May 2019)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: On that point about England not dealing with its own home affairs separately, when we had devolution the home affairs of everyone else were devolved to their institutions. England’s home affairs are still decided within a United Kingdom Cabinet. The argument should always have been that it is up to England how it settles its own home affairs.

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017 - Motion to Approve (10 Jan 2018)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, I shall not go over all the things that we have already gone through. I have grave concerns about this issue—I had concerns about a single police force in Scotland—but I do not think that this is how the Government in Scotland look at it. We have seen this approach from this Government from the beginning. They suck powers up from local government and they suck powers down from...

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017 - Motion to Approve (10 Jan 2018)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: We should remember that Scotland does not have a border only with England, but also with Northern Ireland. All that separates us is the Irish Sea. What will happen to the ferries? Will the British Transport Police and the Scottish police change mid-Irish Sea? Will we set up a hard border between Scotland and Northern Ireland? Are we taking Scotland out of that equation? This is more about...

Scotland Bill: Committee (1st Day) (Continued) ( 8 Dec 2015)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: On the point about the Scottish Parliament: if there were to be a senate, does my noble friend envisage that we would still have to retain the same numbers in the Scottish Parliament?

Queen’s Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (Continued) ( 1 Jun 2015)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis. I congratulate those who have made their maiden speeches today, every one of them far better than most of us have ever heard in this House. We are in a constitutional mess and there is no mistake about that. It reminds me of the story of the man asking for a destination and being told, “Well, I wouldn’t start from...

Scotland: Draft Legislation — Statement (22 Jan 2015)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, I also welcome the Statement that the noble and learned Lord has made today. I am glad to hear him say once more that all five parties signed up to this. But he will forgive me a little wobble because, on the day after the Smith commission reported, four SNP councillors in Renfrewshire burned that report outside the council offices. I have to wonder just what the commitment of the...

Scotland: Independence — Motion to Take Note (24 Jun 2014)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: On that point, given that if Scotland voted yes it would no longer be part of the European Union, how then would Scottish students be treated?

Scotland: Independence — Motion to Take Note (24 Jun 2014)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, coming 30th in the debate is not the easiest position, given that most points have already been made. I am now looking for different ways of saying the same thing. I am not surprised to have found myself in agreement with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness. Given that the Liberal Party was a partner in the constitutional convention, I fully expected to agree with...

Scotland Bill: Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (28 Feb 2012)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: On that point, was it not the case that the Scottish Parliament in fact did quite the opposite of that, and drew powers away from local government and brought them to the Scottish Parliament? In fact, they are the people who have not continued devolution. While this House has tried to keep the concept of devolution going, the Scottish Parliament has done exactly the opposite.

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) ( 8 Dec 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: Can the Leader of the House help me on a point? At the moment, my household falls into two different constituencies. For the Scottish Parliament we are in Paisley North, and for the Westminster Parliament the votes of my household fall into Paisley South. If, as I will be entitled to do, I go to the polls for the Scottish Parliament elections, I will vote in the north-east corner of Paisley,...

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) ( 8 Dec 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: It is not a unique situation to the noble Lord and I. It affects all the people in these constituencies. They are in exactly the same situation. Do they have to vote for the Scottish Parliament candidate and then race diagonally across the town to vote in the referendum if it is to be based on the Westminster constituency?

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) ( 8 Dec 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: I have to tell the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, that the additional member system does not work. We may have Conservatives representing not Conservative voters but Conservative Party policy and cherry picking issues because they do not represent any particular constituents. We have a system in which those directly elected by the local people have up to eight members following them around from the...

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill: Second Reading (1st Day) (15 Nov 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Grocott, I am quite depressed about the Bill but I am also now very confused, as I find for the first time, sitting opposite the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, that I completely agree with him. That certainly did not happen often in the other place. On the other hand, there were elements of my noble friend Lord Knight's speech that I completely disagreed with. I...

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill: Second Reading (1st Day) (15 Nov 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: I personally was never committed to AV but we are not abandoning it. Many on this side still support it. I happen to be one of those who do not. The noble Lord did not support AV before the election. It was not in the Liberal manifesto. It certainly was not in the Conservative manifesto, so why is he supporting it now? He should explain that to me rather than the other way round. First past...

Scottish Parliament (Constituencies and Regions) Order 2010: Motion to Approve (26 Oct 2010)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, I did not intend to speak tonight but I hope that the Advocate-General will take note of the passion that is felt, particularly on this side of the House, about what is happening in the other place. He started by giving us a list of the people who have been consulted on the order. Unfortunately, those people will not be consulted again on the constituencies that are to be...

Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill [HL] (10 Feb 2006)

Baroness Adams of Craigielea: My Lords, in rising to make my maiden speech, I had hoped to be making a positive and supportive one. Unfortunately, with this Bill, I will not be able to do that. While I recognise that the West Lothian question is a serious one, which will eventually have to have an answer, my contention is that this Bill is, in fact, very far from the answer. We have an anomalous situation with the West...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 4 — Duty stamps for spirits etc ( 6 Jul 2004)

Mrs Irene Adams: The industry was well aware of the problems with whisky fraud. In two years, it took no steps to produce suggestions about how to tackle that fraud.

Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill: Schedule 1 — Substitution of Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 ( 4 May 2004)

Mrs Irene Adams: The hon. Gentleman is right that proportionality was one of the key principles of the convention, but one of its other key principles was to have a gender-balanced Parliament. Why did the Liberals not keep their word on that?


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