Transcripts of Oral Evidence

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 2
LIST OF WITNESSES
Where witnesses have submitted opening statements these have been included at the end of each day's evidence.
Monday 26 June 2000 Morning Session
Rt Hon Lord Richard QC
Rt Hon Lord Owen CH
Professor Robert Hazell, Director, and Meg Russell, Senior Research Fellow, Constitution Unit,
	University College, London
Rt Hon Lord Archer of Sandwell QC
Rt Hon Lord Jenkin of Roding
Monday 26 June 2000 Afternoon Session
Lord Craig of Radley GCB OBE, Convenor of the Cross Bench Peers
Dawn Oliver, Professor of Constitution Law, University College, London
Earl Russell FBA
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon QPM
Thursday 29 June 2000 Morning Session
Rt Hon Lord Merlyn-Rees
David Hencke, Westminster Correspondent, The Guardian
Michael Davies, Clerk of the Parliaments and James Vallance White CB, Registrar of Lords' Interests
Thursday 29 June 2000 Afternoon Session
Rt Hon Lord Griffiths MC
Lord Walton of Detchant TD
Lord Campbell of Alloway QC
Lord Marlesford
Friday 30 June 2000
Lord McNally
Rt Hon Lord Crickhowell
Lord Plant of Highfield
Baroness Turner of Camden
Lord Flowers FRS
Lord Dubs
Rt Hon Sir Archibald Hamilton MP

Friday 7 July 2000
Lord Tugendhat
Rt Hon Lord Wakeham
Elizabeth Filkin, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
Lord Newby OBE
Lord Chadlington of Dean
Monday 10 July 2000 Morning Session
Lord Haskel
Peter Riddell, The Times
Lord Dixon-Smith
Rt Hon Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Rt Hon Lord Trefgarne and the Rt Hon Lord Mayhew of Twysden QC, Association of Conservative Peers
Monday 10 July 2000 Afternoon Session
Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt MP
Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill TD, Senior Law Lord
Lord Rees-Mogg
Rt Hon Lord Strathclyde, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, the Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords and Nicholas True, Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition
Monday 17 July 2000 Morning Session
Rt Hon Lord Naseby
Rt Hon Robert Sheldon MP, Chairman, House of Commons Standards and Privileges Select Committee
Michael Burrell, Chairman and Martin Le Jeune, member of the Managing Committee, Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC)
Rt Hon Robert Maclennan MP, Principal spokesman for Constitution, Culture and Sport, Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Commons
Baroness Young of Old Scone
Monday 17 July 2000 Afternoon Session
Rt Hon Baroness Jay of Paddington, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords and the Rt Hon Lord Williams of Mostyn, Attorney General and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Simon of Highbury
Rt Hon Earl Ferrers
Rt Hon Lord Biffen
Lord Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Dr Kenneth Stevenson

LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY MEMORANDA RELATING TO TRANSCRIPTS OF ORAL EVIDENCE VOLUME 2

The principal documents necessary to understand evidence given by witnesses in the transcripts of oral evidence are included at the end of this volume. Copies of other submissions received by the Committee, relating to the study on the House of Lords, are published on CD-Rom, and may be consulted at the Public Records Office in Kew, the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland in Belfast, the Scottish Public Record Office in Edinburgh and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

1. Supplementary Memoranda from Professor Dawn Oliver

2. Supplementary Memoranda from the Rt Hon Lord Wakeham

3. Supplementary Memoranda from Lord Chadlington of Dean

4. Supplementary Memoranda from the Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish

5. Supplementary memoranda from the Lord Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Dr Kenneth Stevenson

LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS SUBMITTING WRITTEN EVIDENCE

The list includes Members of the House of Lords, representative bodies, individuals and members of the public who contributed written submissions. Evidence which concerned individual cases, or which has been found to contain potentially defamatory material, has been excluded. All the evidence we received (including unpublished submissions) was given due consideration in our work.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

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