House of Commons Amendments

Session 2013 - 14
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House of Commons

Tuesday 9 July 2013

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill

Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee

The Programming Sub-Committee appointed by the Speaker in respect of the Bill

agreed the following Resolution at its meeting on Thursday 4 July 2013 (Standing Order

No. 83C):

That—

(1)
the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 8.55 am on Tuesday 9

July) meet—

(a)
at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 9 July;

(b)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 11 July;

(c)
at 8.55 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 16 July;

(d)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 18 July;

(2)
the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following

Table:

TABLE

Date
Time
Witness

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
London Borough of

10.00 am
Camden

Nottingham City Council

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
Manchester City Council

11.00 pm
Staffordshire County

Council

Geoff Inskip, on behalf of

Centro and Passenger

Transport Executive Group

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
Professor John Tomaney,

11.25 am
Professor of Urban and

Regional Planning,

University College London

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
51m

3.00 pm
HS2 Action Alliance

Stop HS2

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
Sheffield City Region Local

4.00 pm
Enterprise Partnership

Tuesday 9 July
Until no later than
Network Rail

4.30 pm
Greengauge 21

Tuesday 9 July
Until not later
Country Land & Business

than 5.00 pm
Association

Campaign to Protect Rural

England

Thursday 11 July
Until no later than
British Chambers of

12.30 pm
Commerce Confederation of

British Industry Transport

Scotland

Thursday 11 July
Until no later than
Campaign for Better

2.30 pm
Transport

Passenger Focus

Thursday 11 July
Until no later than
Institute of Civil Engineers

3.30 pm
Crossrail Ltd

HS1 Limited

Thursday 11 July
Until no later than
Rail Freight Group

4.00 pm

Thursday 11 July
Until no later than
Department of Transport

4.45 pm
HS2 Limited

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High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill, continued

(3)
proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall (so far as not

previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 pm on Thursday 18

July.

Mr Simon Burns has given notice of his intention to move a motion in the terms of the

Resolution of Programming Sub-Committee [Standing Order No. 83C].

Mr Simon Burns

That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the

Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted

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High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill, continued

Mr Simon Burns

That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the

Committee shall be reported to the House for publication.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

12

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  2,  after ‘expenditure’, insert ‘up to a limit of £50 million’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

13

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
Any further expenditure shall be limited to tranches of £50 million (not including

monies paid under any compensation scheme) each of which shall individually be

approved by a resolution of both Houses of Parliament.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

14

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  3,  at end insert ‘No expenditure shall be incurred under this

Act after a period of six months beginning with Royal Assent.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

5

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  10,  after ‘Leeds’ leave out ‘and’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

6

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  11,  after ‘Manchester’, insert ‘and one or more towns or

cities in Scotland’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

7

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  12,  after ‘railway’, insert ‘, road and airport’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

8

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  leave out ‘includes’ and insert ‘is restricted to’.

Mr William Cash

1

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  21,  leave out ‘and’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

9

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  after ‘providing’, insert ‘generous’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

10

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  after ‘property’, insert ‘, businesses and persons’.

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Mr William Cash

2

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  after ‘affected’, insert ‘, and

(d)
in implementing a scheme for the issuing of transferrable bonds in

respect of affected properties allowing owners of such properties to

require their purchase at unblighted prices.’.

Mr William Cash

3

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  at end insert—

‘(4A)
Expenditure mentioned in subsection (4)(b) and (c) shall be minimised so far as

reasonably practicable through agreements with owners of affected properties

with the purpose of mitigating the impacts of the network referred to in subsection

(1) on those properties.’.

Mr William Cash

4

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  at end insert—

‘(4A)
In incurring any expenditure mentioned in subsection (4) the Secretary of State or

any other person authorised by the Secretary of State to incur such expenditure

shall be under a duty to act fairly towards the owner of any property being

acquired and any claimant for compensation.

(4B)
The Secretary of State shall issue a code of practice specifying how the duty

referred to in subsection (4A) is to be discharged.

(4C)
The code—

(a)
shall not be issued unless a draft has been laid before Parliament, and

(b)
shall come into force in accordance with provision made by order of the

Secretary of State.

(4D)
The Secretary of State shall from time to time review the code and may revise and

re-issue it following a review; and a reference in this section to the code includes

a reference to the code as revised.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

11

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  at end insert—

‘(d)
in providing and maintaining a property bond system as detailed in

Schedule 1 to this Bill.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

15

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  5,  after ‘each’, insert ‘six months in each’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

16

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  after ‘during’, insert ‘each six months in each’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

19


Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  leave out ‘the’.

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Mrs Cheryl Gillan

17

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  11,  at end add—

‘(d)
all expenditure in all Departments across Government on matters related

to the high speed railway transport network.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

20


Clause  2,  page  2,  line  12,  after ‘means—’, insert—

‘(a)
in relation to the period from 1 April 2010 to the day on which this Act

is passed, each successive year from 1 April 2010 to the day on which this

Act is passed; thereafter.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

18

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  leave out subsection (5).

New Schedule

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

NS1

To move the following Schedule:—

‘Property purchase bond scheme

1
The Secretary of State or the Promoter of the High Speed Rail Scheme (the

Promoter) will establish a market-based property purchase bond scheme (“the

Bond Scheme”).

2
Bonds issued under the Bond Scheme are referred to as “Bonds”.

3
All owners of blighted properties will be eligible for a Bond which will transfer

with a property affected by any High Speed Rail proposals or project whenever

said property is sold.

4
Eligibility for the Bond will be determined by whether a property suffers or

might suffer loss in value due to the High Speed Rail proposals or project.

5
The Bond will underpin the full market value of the property designated as

blighted so that the property can be the subject of a mortgage or charge and be

disposed of in the same fashion as if it had not been blighted.

6
The Bond will be redeemed by the Promoter only after all relevant permissions

and consents for the high speed railway have been granted and if no purchaser

is forthcoming at the unblighted price (making the Promoter the purchaser of

last resort).

7
Nothing in the Bond Scheme will prevent any other types of compensation

being added to the compensation scheme for High Speed Rail blight as a

whole.’.

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High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill, continued

Order of the House [26 June 2013]

That the following provisions shall apply to the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill:

Committal

1.
The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

2.
Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 18 July 2013.

3.
The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

4.
Proceedings on Consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

5.
Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

6.
Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

7.
Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.



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