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Lord Dubs (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 September 2026

Debate

Procedure and Privileges

Contribution

My Lords, I will make two brief points. One is to support the comment made by my noble friend George Foulkes about supplementary questions. Our Chief Whip does a great job in identifying which party should come next, but he cannot choose between Members of one party. We still have a situation of relative chaos. I know at least one Member of the Conservative Party who point-blank said to me that he will not intervene in Question Time because he does not like the chaos that there is. My second point is a minor one. One of the paragraphs talks about not repeating lists of named people who have helped. I thought there was a tradition that we respect maiden speakers but that the only person who should thank the maiden speaker is the person speaking afterwards—not every other speaker in the debate, which seems to be the pattern at the moment.

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