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House of Commons

 
 

Monday 9 September 2013

 

Committee of the whole House

 

Proceedings

 

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and

 

Trade Union Administration Bill

 

[First Day]

 

CLAUSES 1 AND 2, SCHEDULE 1, CLAUSE 3, SCHEDULE 2, CLAUSES 4 TO 25, NEW

 

CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 1, NEW SCHEDULES RELATING TO PART 1

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not selected  1

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Negatived on division  2

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  5,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Agreed to  76

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  6,  leave out from ‘person’ to end of line 7.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Withdrawn  3

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  6,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

 
 

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and Trade Union Administration Bill, continued

 
 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  5

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  8,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Negatived on division  4

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  8,  after ‘lobbyists’, insert ‘and

 

(c)    

the person has signed up to the Register’s Code of Conduct.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  7

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  12,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

 

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

 

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Paul Flynn

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Mr David Ward

 

Not moved  48

 

Clause  2,  page  1,  line  12,  leave out subsection (1) and insert—

 

‘(1)    

For the purposes of this Part, a person carries on the business of lobbying if in the

 

course of a business and in return for payment—

 

(a)    

the person makes communications within subsection (3), or advises

 

another person on the making of communications within subsection (3),

 

and

 

(b)    

none of the exceptions in Part 1 of Schedule 1 applies.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Not called  8

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  2,  leave out ‘on behalf of another person or persons’.

 
 

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and Trade Union Administration Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Agreed to  77

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  3,  after ‘persons,’ insert—

 

‘(aa)    

the person is registered under the Value Added Tax Act 1994,’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Negatived on division  9

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  4,  leave out paragraph (b) and insert—

 

‘(b)    

in return for payment the person advises others how to make

 

communications within subsection (3).

 

(c)    

in return for payment the person arranges or facilitates a formal or

 

informal meeting within subsection (3).’.

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  161

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  4,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

A person carries on the business of professional lobbying if—

 

(a)    

the person is directly employed by a non-lobbying business to perform

 

the role of making communications within the meaning of subsection (3);

 

(b)    

the person is contracted to perform the role of making communications

 

within the meaning of subsection (3) by a non-lobbying business; or

 

(c)    

in addition to other duties within their business, they make

 

communication within the meaning of subsection (3).’.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Paul Flynn

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Mr David Ward

 

Not moved  49

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

 

‘(3)    

The communications within this subsection are oral or written communications

 

made personally to a Member of either House of Parliament, a Minister of the

 

Crown or permanent secretary or senior civil servant or special advisor relating

 

to—

 

(a)    

the development, adoption or modification of any proposal of the

 

Government to make or amend primary or subordinate legislation;

 

(b)    

the development, adoption or modification of any other policy of the

 

Government;

 

(c)    

the making, giving or issuing by the Government of, or the taking of any

 

other steps by the Government in relation to—

 

(i)    

any contract or other agreement;

 

(ii)    

any grant or other financial assistance; or

 

(iii)    

any licence or other authorisation; or

 
 

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(d)    

the exercise of any other function of the Government.’.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Paul Flynn

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Mr Andrew Turner

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Not called  51

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

 

‘(3)    

The communications within this subsection are oral or written communications

 

made personally to a Minister of the Crown or permanent secretary or senior civil

 

servant or special advisor relating to—

 

(a)    

the development, adoption or modification of any proposal of the

 

Government to make or amend primary or subordinate legislation;

 

(b)    

the development, adoption or modification of any other policy of the

 

Government;

 

(c)    

the making, giving or issuing by the Government of, or the taking of any

 

other steps by the Government in relation to—

 

(i)    

any contract or other agreement;

 

(ii)    

any grant or other financial assistance; or

 

(iii)    

any licence or other authorisation; or

 

(d)    

the exercise of any other function of the Government.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  10

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  after ‘written’, insert ‘including electronic’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Not called  11

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  8,  leave out from ‘communications’ to ‘relating’ in line 9 and

 

insert ‘made to government or parliament, as defined in subsection (5).’.

 

John Thurso

 

Andrew George

 

Simon Hughes

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

Not called  45

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  9,  after ‘secretary’, insert ‘or special adviser’.

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  157

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  9,  after ‘secretary’, insert ‘Parliamentary Private Secretary,

 
 

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senior civil servant or adviser to a Minister of the Crown.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Not called  6

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  11,  after ‘subordinate’, insert ‘or European’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  12

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  at end insert ‘or parliament’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  13

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  20,  leave out ‘Minister or permanent secretary’ and insert

 

‘person being lobbied’.

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  158

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  24,  at beginning insert ‘“adviser to a Minister of the Crown”

 

means—

 

‘(a)    

a special adviser, which has the same meaning as in the Constitutional

 

Reform and Governance Act 2010; or

 

(b)    

an otherwise designated adviser who has a role in advising any Minister

 

of the Crown or government department on any policies, programmes or

 

projects.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  14

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  leave out lines 24 to 32 and insert ‘“government and parliament”

 

includes, within the United Kingdom—

 

(a)    

Ministers or officials of government departments;

 

(b)    

Members and staff of either House of Parliament;

 

(c)    

Special advisers and senior civil servants;

 

(d)    

Non-ministerial departments, non-departmental public bodies and

 

executive agencies and their senior staff;

 

(e)    

Advisers and consultants to government and parliament within the

 

meaning of this subsection, who are not employed by, or seconded to

 

government or parliament but have an official, if temporary, role.’.

 
 

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and Trade Union Administration Bill, continued

 
 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  159

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  27,  at end insert ‘“Parliamentary Private Secretary” means a

 

Member of Parliament who has a role as an aide to a Minister of the Crown.’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Agreed to  78

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  28,  at end insert ‘a person serving the government in’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Agreed to  79

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  29,  leave out ‘a person holding’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Agreed to  80

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  31,  leave out ‘a person holding’.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Paul Flynn

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Mr David Ward

 

Not called  50

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  32,  at end add—

 

‘“senior civil servant” means a person holding a position of Grade 5 or

 

above in the civil service of the state.

 

“special advisor” has the same meaning as in the Constitutional Reform and

 

Governance Act 2010.’.

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  160

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  32,  at end add—

 

‘“senior civil servant” means a person holding a position of Grade 5 or

 

above in the civil service of the state.’.

 

Mrs Anne Main

 

Not selected  57

 

Page  1,  line  11,  leave out Clause 2.

 

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

 

 

Mr Bernard Jenkin

 

Mr William Cash

 

Not called  164

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  6,  leave out from ‘Act’ to end of line 10 and insert ‘shall

 
 

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be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting Article IX of the Bill of

 

Rights 1689.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  15

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  11,  leave out sub-paragraph (1) and insert ‘Nothing in

 

Part 1 of the Schedule will affect Members of Parliament and Lords and their

 

parliamentary privilege.’.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Paul Flynn

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Mr Kevin Barron

 

Mr Andrew Turner

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Mr Bernard Jenkin

 

Mr William Cash

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Mr David Ward

 

Not called  53

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  11,  leave out paragraph 2.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

Not called  163

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

A local government councillor who makes communications within section 2(3)

 

on behalf of a person or persons resident in his or her ward does not, by reason of

 

those communications, carry on the business of consultant lobbying.’.

 

Jon Trickett

 

Ms Angela Eagle

 

Angela Smith

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Not called  16

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  15,  leave out sub-paragraph (2).

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Sheila Gilmore

 

Fabian Hamilton

 

Paul Flynn

 

Caroline Lucas

 

Graham Stringer

 

Mark Durkan

 

Stephen Williams

 

Kate Hoey

 

John Mann

 

Mr David Ward

 

Not called  52

 

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  18,  leave out paragraph 3.

 
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