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<id>27142</id>
<session>2004-05</session>
<number>800</number>
<title>House Of Lords Reform</title>
<proposer id="10118">David Clelland</proposer>
<date>2005-02-28</date>
<text>That this House believes that a partly elected second chamber would be an unsustainable hybrid and would inevitably lead to a fully elected chamber and that an elected second chamber could not guarantee the spread of experience, knowledge, background, gender and ethnicity required for a chamber dedicated to the scrutiny and advisory role hitherto considered appropriate for a reformed House of Lords; further believes that a second chamber should add value to our system of governance and be more representative and more effective and that these qualities can be achieved without producing a whole new batch of elected politicians; and believes that the cobbled together proposals outlined in the recently published Second Chamber of Parliament Bill are a disappointing response to the opportunity that now presents itself.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10118">David Clelland</mp>
		<date>2005-02-28</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Tyne Bridge</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10221">Edward Garnier</mp>
		<date>2005-02-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10211">George Foulkes</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10089">Ronnie Campbell</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blyth Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10463">Bill Olner</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10448">Kali Mountford</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Colne Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10404">John McWilliam</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaydon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10381">Siobhain McDonagh</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mitcham &amp; Morden</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11003">Kevan Jones</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Durham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10313">Brian Jenkins</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tamworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10293">Gerald Howarth</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aldershot</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10291">Alan Howarth</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10274">Stephen Hepburn</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Jarrow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10941">Tom Harris</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Cathcart</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10478">Colin Pickthall</mp>
		<date>2005-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Lancashire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10140">Ross Cranston</mp>
		<date>2005-03-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dudley North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10337">Piara S Khabra</mp>
		<date>2005-03-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ealing, Southall</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>2005-03-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10509">Marion Roe</mp>
		<date>2005-03-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11225">Si</mp>
		<date>2005-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Erdington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10382">Calum MacDonald</mp>
		<date>2005-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Na h-Eileanan an Iar</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10099">Sydney Chapman</mp>
		<date>2005-03-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chipping Barnet</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10497">Syd Rapson</mp>
		<date>2005-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10605">David Trimble</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upper Bann</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10033">Roy Beggs</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10012">Janet Anderson</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rossendale &amp; Darwen</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10176">Jim Dowd</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewisham West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10768">David Burnside</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10553">Martin Smyth</mp>
		<date>2005-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast South</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10384">John McFall</mp>
		<date>2005-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumbarton</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>2005-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10009">David Amess</mp>
		<date>2005-03-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
