Parliament: A few headaches and a dose of modernisation

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 238-256

  Cowley, Philip ^a   Stuart, Mark ^a  

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EID: 0035314899     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/parlij/54.2.238     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. 1 HC 906, 1999-2000.
2. 2 HC 954, 1999-2000.
3. 3 HC 589, 1999-2000.
4. 4 HC 300, 1999-2000.
5. 5 Report, HC 295, 1998-99; government response, HC 338, 1999-2000.
6. 6 The other two were the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill, designed to ban the practice of mink farming by 2002, largely based on a Private Member's bill introduced in the previous session, and the Nuclear Safegaurds Bill, which brought into effect a protocol requiring the UK to provide information to the Internanonal Atomic Energy Agency, originally also a Private Member's bill.
7. 7 A good - if slightly barmy - example of this line of thought can be found in J. Redwood, The Death of Britain?, Macmillan, 1999.
8. 8 Note that these defeats are not included in the overall total for the year since, because the government was strictly speaking neutral on the issue, they were not defeats by the Lords of the government.
9. 9 P. Cowley, 'Blair's MPs: Sheep who can bark', New Statesman, 22.11.99.
10. 10 The report stage of the Royal Parks (Trading) Bill, which also saw considerable filibustering, contained one memorable rhetorical question by David Maclean during a discussion on the police's power to seize perishable products: 'What advices does the minister give to the policeman, or the chestnut seller, who finds that his hot brazier has been confiscated and then must find somewhere to put his nuts?'
11. 11 See P. Routledge, Madam Speaker, HarperCollins, 1995, chs. 1 and 8.