Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly in the chamber the attendance has been very low, even for the Prime Minister's questions. We've had very good co-operation from the party whips. People are behaving themselves. Lots of traditional behaviours, like coming to chat with the clerk at the table or to talk wi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We already have proxy voting available for members on parental leave, so theoretically one could extend that to other members, such as members who are ill or for whatever reason. We already have pairing. That was an option, but it's not very transparent if you have 400 members wh

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair, to you and to all the members of the committee for this invitation to give evidence to your committee on a subject that is occupying all of my time at the moment. I see that I have been asked to speak for up to 10 minutes. I don't think I have 10 minutes' wort

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That greatly suits me, as I don't have a prepared presentation, apart from what I've written in the last 15 minutes during the sound checks. It might be helpful if I explain what I'm doing in this context and then talk the committee through, very briefly, what we've done in the