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Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 September 2026

Debate

Procedure and Privileges

Contribution

My Lords, I was going to intervene on the question of the definition of “business attire”, and I look forward to the Senior Deputy Speaker elucidating that in a moment. Since we are talking about speeding up the business of the House, I have to say that the suggestion that, to reduce the time-wasting that sometimes occurs here, we should reduce the time limit from 10 minutes to eight minutes hardly seems to be a game-changer. In fact, if we are not able to make the critical point succinctly at that stage of the consideration of a Bill, why we are not considering reducing the limit to three or four minutes?

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