The one argument that really surprised me came from the Reverend Andrew Coghill, the spokesman for the Lords Day Observance Society on Lewis.
The bill is due to return to the Lords for the final day of report stage debate on 13 March during an extended sitting.
This is Wimbledon moving the men's final to a morning or Gordon Brown shifting an election to a Friday to accommodate the first day of a Lords Test.
The Lords are planning to start early to accommodate all the peers who want to speak in the marathon two-day debate on the Government's Lords Reform proposals. 113 Peers (and counting) have put in to speak - and a debate of penetrating predictability looms.
Later the same day both the Commons and Lords move a Loyal Address in answer to the Speech which is followed by a Debate on the Address.
Opening the day's debate in the Lords, Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Sassoon defended the government's "granny tax" from criticism.
Crossbencher Lord Dear, who led Lords moves in 2008 to veto 42-day pre-charge detention, said the current DPP's views should have "considerable weight".
During the first day of report stage in the Lords last week the government suffered a defeat over the future possible transfer of responsibility for counter-terrorism from the Metropolitan Police to the new National Crime Agency.
The Liberal Democrats also say they will not accept the "Salisbury Doctrine" - the Convention ensures that major government bills mentioned in an election manifesto can get through when the government of the day has no majority in the Lords.
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In the Lords (starting at 3pm) it's Day 11 of the Health and Social Care Bill Committee Stage - looking in detail at the provisions on provider regulation, licensing and pricing - some amendments may be pushed to a vote.
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The day kicks off with the splendour of the sovereign's procession from Buckingham Palace to the Lords which delights tourists, but which pitches the capital's traffic system into chaos for the rest of the day.
It is customary for the Lords to pass all stages of money bills in one day.
It continues for a further three days, through Thursday, Friday and Monday in the Commons, and Thursday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Lords - with different themes in each House on each day.
It is customary for the Lords to pass all stages of money bills in one day, although Labour last week took the unprecedented step of demanding that the bill should have a normal committee stage, report stage and third reading.
Then MPs spend the rest of the day dealing with changes made by the House of Lords to the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (ERR) Bill, the Defamation Bill and the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) the main debate of the day is on the UK economy and the government's role in promoting growth - and it will provide the first big outing for the new Infrastructure Minister Lord Deighton.
The next day he filled in a standard form from the House of Lords appointments committee, which vets nominees.
Over in the Lords (from 2.30pm), the first event of the day is the introduction of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who is reincarnated back into the House as Lord Williams of Oystermouth.
There are more than 800 members of the House of Lords, of which just over 750 are free to turn up on any day.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.
It has already cleared the Lords, and was set to complete its Parliamentary stages on Friday - the last day for backbench business before the end of this Parliamentary session.
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On the committee corridor the big event of the day is the appearance before the special committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and his junior minister, Mark Harper.
Crossbench peer Baroness Grey-Thompson was among several members of the Lords to criticise the plans, as peers debated the Welfare Reform Bill for a fourth day at report stage on 17 January 2012.
Lord Fowler, who chairs the HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom Select Committee, spoke as peers continued the eleventh day of committee stage debate on the Health and Social Care Bill in the Lords on 7 December 2011.
The exchanges came ahead of a second day of report stage of the Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords.
' In fact, I have a day job too, so I run back and forwards, because you certainly couldn't live off Lords expenses.
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