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Constitutional Reform Bill/Lords Reform

Asked if Lords reform had come up at Cabinet, the PMOS said yes. He drew journalists’ attention to the fact that there were two Motions down on the Lords Order Paper today. As he understood it, the Lords would discuss how to proceed with the Constitutional Reform Bill on Monday. The two Motions showed that the Bill would continue in the Upper Chamber and that it would be examined by a Select Committee. The discussions which we had said had been ongoing through the usual channels had now concluded satisfactorily. The Government was content about the way the issue would be handled. We had never been opposed to the scrutiny of legislation. Without pre-empting the discussion on Monday, we now believed that it should be possible for the Bill to be delivered in a sensible way. Asked if it was now more likely that we would shortly see the House of Lords Bill, the PMOS said that an announcement on the Bill would be made soon. He confirmed it would not be this week.

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