Baroness Hayman

Ermine, Ethics and Engagement: Evolution in the House of Lords

Hansard Society (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Er m ine, Ethics and Engagement: Evolution in the House of Lords A Speech by the Lord Speaker, Rt. Hon. the Baroness Hayman Wednesday December 9, 6.15pm, House of Lords, Westminster The Hansard Society is delighted to inform you about a speech by the Lord Speaker, Rt. Hon. the Baroness Hayman. 'Ermine, Ethics and Engagement: Evolution in the House of Lords'. Click here to apply for an official ticket...

Ignoble champagne socialist peers.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009

From the Sunday Times and Ranting King Penguin The term “main home” has taken on a variety of meanings for London-based peers who wish to claim lucrative allowances intended for peers living outside the capital. — For Lord Paul the main home is a concept — a one-bedroom flat in Oxfordshire he has never slept in, but could in theory turf the occupant out of if he wished to stay...

• High Time The Lords Was Audited Thoroughly - The Ranting Penguin

Self-Help Africa Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

Glasshouse Partnership (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009

Last night, Glasshouse went to the 25th anniversary celebration of Self-Help Africa (SHA) in the River Room of the House of Lords. The evening began with an introduction by Baroness Hayman (the House of Lords’ first Speaker and a former Labour…

Peer in charge of expenses reform caught troughing!

The Red Rag (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009

More troughing! I am sure the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics will want to action this one. Director Chris Galley gets back from his holidays on Monday so will be fully refreshed and ready to get his teeth into this. The peer in charge of reforming House of Lords expenses has received £200,000 in allowances over the past eight years by designating her home in Norfolk as her main address. Baroness...

• (more politicians-troughing-scandal)..”Expense-reform peer Baroness Hayman claims £200,000..” - whoar.co.nz
• Expense-reform peer Baroness Hayman claims £200,000 - Times Online

One To Watch

David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009

Jack Straw has announced that rulings of the new Supreme Court are to be delivered before the television cameras. His own Ministry of Justice was cut out of the Home Office as part of the same attempt as this Court give yet further effect to the attempt to import into this country the dangerous, and wholly foreign, theory of “the separation of powers”. What of the Law Lords, of whom, as...

Lord Murton of Lindisfarne dies

Peerage News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009

From today's Lords Hansard transcript, Lord Murton of Lindisfarne died 5 July 2009: The Lord Speaker (Baroness Hayman) is quoted: My Lords, I regret to inform the House of the death yesterday of Lord Murton of Lindisfarne. On behalf of the whole House, I extend our condolences to the noble Lord’s family and friends. -==-

Parliament Speaker Meets With British House of Lords Speaker

All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009

The National Assembly (Angolan Parliament) speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, met Thursday in London, with the speaker of the British House of Lords, Baroness Hayman.

We may want to borrow but will anyone lend?

Times Online - William Rees-Mogg (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

Shortly before Christmas, the Speaker of the House of Lords, Baroness Hayman, invited a group of peers and journalists to a meeting to discuss the economic crisis. I was particularly struck by the contribution of Lord Howe of Aberavon, who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the early years of the Thatcher Government.

• We may want to borrow but will anyone lend? - Times Online

Possession of extreme pornographic images - now illegal in the UK . Public hysteria hard at work

Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

Yesterday Lord Patel was able, after my Lord Bishop of Norwich Rt Revd Graham James so beautifully intoned the customary Prayers before business, to hear Baroness Hayman, the Lord Speaker announce "My Lords, I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that the Queen has signified her Royal Assent to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act." This curious Bill...

Lord Ashcroft

Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007

Denis MacShane has written to both Baroness Hayman and David Cameron to seek clarification as to whether the noble Lord Ashcroft is domiciled in the UK in the full tax-paying sense. I wonder what the reply will be? Baroness Hayman Lords Speaker House of Lords London SW1 9 November 2007 Lord Ashcroft I am writing to you to see if you can clarify the status of Lord Ashcroft as a UK tax-paying resident...

Taxing Times for Tory Money Bags

Kevin Maguire - Mirror Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007

The heat has been turned up on super-rich Michael Ashcroft, the multi-millionaire who liked the Tory Party so much he bought it. Below are a couple of letters sent by Rotherham Labour MP and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane to Leader of the Lords, Baroness Hayman, and Conservative leader David Cameron asking if undertakings Lord Ashcroft gave in 2000 have been honoured. Ashcroft, Deputy Chair...

EXCLUSIVE: Straw Loses Out in the War of Lordly Procession

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 17/10/2007

There's been a huge - and I mean HUGE - row between the Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw and the Lords Speaker Baroness Hayman. In their typical cock-eyed fashion, no one had thought about the Queen's Speech procession when Gordon Bronw made a Member of the House of Commons Lord Chancellor. Jack Straw still wanted to walk backwards in front of the Queen even though he is not in the Lords. This was firmly...