With Lord Beith and Baroness Taylor I have signed Lord Pannick's amendments to the #WAB, referred to in this article: thetimes.co.uk/article/pm-try…. The full range of HL amendments so far is here publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill…: ours are to clause 26.
The "Members' Explanatory Statements" (though still optional) make these documents much easier to understand - helpfully, given the breakneck speed with which this Bill is being considered.
Second reading (when 80 of us will give our headline comments) is tomorrow. Committee stage (when amendments are tried out but not generally put to a vote) is Tues-Thurs this week. Report stage (when amendments are refined and sometimes put to a vote) is the following week.
The important bits usually happen between these formal stages: discussing and recasting of amendments, meetings with Ministers, Government proposing solutions to problems pointed out in debate.
Time for those activities is extremely short - and with a solid majority in the Commons, Government's willingness to contemplate even technical changes in @UKHouseofLords may be limited.
But it is in everyone's interest to get this Bill right, and a high proportion of Lords amendments are not opposed when Bills go back to the Commons - so we will hope for the best.
Second Reading kicks off at 3pm Monday and can be seen here parliamentlive.tv/Lords. Written transcripts (Hansard) follow a few hours behind: hansard.parliament.uk/lords. These peers will be speaking (in a non-alphabetical order to be decided tomorrow): lordswhips.org.uk/speakers-lists….
If the debates are coherent it will be thanks to our committees and their staff, to @commonslibrary and @HLLibResearch, and to the academics and NGOs who have produced and facilitated comment including @publiclawprojct @BinghamCentre @ClientEarth @ukcla @ifgevents and many more.
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