division_name: Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] &#8212; [3rd Allotted Day] &#8212; New Clause 9 &#8212; Disqualification from holding further ministerial office
motion: <p class="" pid="a.892.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.892.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">It is necessary to return to some of the basic issues surrounding the Bill to understand why we tabled the new clause. The old structure of the Lord Chancellor provided, as we have debated peripherally this afternoon, that he was a judge first and foremost. He was a judge with a hybrid role, because as well as sitting as the head of the judiciary and a Law Lord, and being Speaker of the House of Lords, he was a Minister.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.902.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the clause be read a Second time:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.902.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The Committee divided:</i> Ayes 167, Noes 283.</p>