She was responding to a cross-party amendment aimed at strengthening the health secretary's duties to promote public health via methods such as advertising campaigns as peers debated the Health and Social Care Bill on 16 November 2011, the sixth day of committee stage.

BBC: Public health campaigns to remain in reformed NHS

Responding to the decision a Tory spokesman said his party appreciated that Lord Neill was unable to investigate allegations against individuals.

BBC: Labour chief avoids Neill probe

The plan says that "each party shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents" without requiring any clear details on the number of ships or personnel that would be needed to cope with a spillage.

BBC: Concerns raised over 'useless' Arctic oil spill plan

But responding to the news Mr Livingstone predicted he would be back in the party after the current "crisis".

BBC: You are in: UK Politics

Responding for the government, the Lib Dem peer Lord Wallace, whose party supports lowering the voting age, insisted there was "nothing inevitable" about the move.

BBC: Votes for 16-year-olds 'not inevitable'

The irony was that the Democrats, responding in part to the shock he had administered, became increasingly a party of the elite and intellectual rather than the working man.

ECONOMIST: Eugene McCarthy

The success of Megawati Sukarnoputri's party in the elections can partly be attributed to her quiet composure in responding to the myriad topics that arose once the Suharto regime ended.

CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

In an advance copy of a speech he plans to give Monday morning responding to the report, RNC chairman Reince Priebus lays out a number of the steps the party plans to make swiftly to begin to regroup.

WSJ: RNC Issues Scathing Analysis of GOP