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House of Commons

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Consideration of Lords Amendments

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and

Trade Union Administration Bill

On Consideration of Lords Amendments to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning

and Trade Union Administration Bill

Note

The amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Transparency of

Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

(Programme) (No. 3) motion to be proposed by Mr Andrew Lansley.

Lords Amendment No. 1

Mr Andrew Lansley

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Mr Graham Allen

(a)


Line  1,  after ‘or’, insert ‘, senior civil servant or’.

Mr Andrew Lansley

To move the following Amendments to the Bill in lieu of the Lords Amendment:—

(b)


Page  2,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘( )
Regulations may amend subsection (3) so as to provide that communications

made personally to a special adviser are within that subsection.’.

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(c)


Page  2 ,  line  30,  at end insert—

‘“special adviser” means a person who serves the government in a position

in the civil service of the State and whose appointment to that position

meets the requirements applicable to that position set out in section 15(1)

of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.’.

Lords Amendment No. 7

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Lisa Nandy

Mrs Angela Eagle

Angela Smith

Stephen Twigg

(a)


Line  4,  after ‘activities)’, insert ‘, which must be adopted by everyone

undertaking the business of consultant lobbying’.

Lords Amendment No. 108

Mr Andrew Lansley

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

Lords Amendment No. 20

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Mr Graham Allen

(a)


Line  2,  leave out from ‘England’ to end of line 10 and add ‘£793,500;

(b)
in relation to Scotland, £108,000;

(c)
in relation to Wales, £60,000;

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(d)
in relation to Northern Ireland, £20,000 plus 2% of the maximum

campaign expenditure limit in Northern Ireland;’.

Lords Amendment No. 26

Mr Andrew Lansley

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

Lords Amendment No. 27

Mr Andrew Lansley

To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

Lords Amendment No. 55

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Mr Graham Allen

(a)


Line  7,  at end add—

‘( )
If the final period of less than three months referred to in subsection (2)(c) is less

than two weeks, this final period shall be added on to the preceding three month

period and only one quarterly donation report shall be required for this period.’.

Lords Amendment No. 59

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

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Mr Graham Allen

(a)


Line  1,  at end add—

‘at end insert—

“( )
This section does not require a third party which reports a donation during the

regulated period to report the same donation in its post-election spending

return”.’.

Lords Amendment No. 75

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Mr Graham Allen

(a)


Line  16,  at end insert—

‘( )
A third party must make a declaration to the Electoral Commission in either of

the following circumstances—

(a)
it does not have to prepare a return because it has spent less than the

registration threshold;

(b)
it has to send a spending return but is exempt from the statement of

account rules.’.

Lords Amendment No. 99

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

Mr Christopher Chope

Mark Durkan

Paul Flynn

(a)


Line  19,  at end insert—

‘( )
No order may be made under this section unless the Electoral Commission has

been consulted.’.

ORDER OF THE HOUSE [3 SEPTEMBER 2013]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party

Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill:

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Committal

1.
The Bill shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Proceedings in Committee

2.
Proceedings in the Committee of the whole House shall be completed in three

days.

3.
The proceedings shall be taken on the days shown in the first column of the

following table and in the order so shown.

4.
The proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table.

          TABLE

Proceedings
Time for conclusion of proceedings

First day

Clauses 1 and 2, Schedule 1, Clause
The moment of interruption on the

3, Schedule 2, Clauses 4 to 25, new
first day

Clauses relating to Part 1, new

Schedules relating to Part 1

Second day

Clause 26, Schedule 3, Clauses 27
The moment of interruption on the

to 32, Schedule 4, Clauses 33 to 35,
second day

new Clauses relating to Part 2, new

Schedules relating to Part 2

Third day

Part 3, new Clauses relating to Part
The moment of interruption on the

3, new Schedules relating to Part 3,
third day

Part 4, remaining new Clauses,

remaining new Schedules,

remaining proceedings on the Bill

Consideration and Third Reading

5.
Any proceedings on Consideration and proceedings on Third Reading shall

be taken in two days in accordance with the following provisions of this

Order.

6.
Any proceedings on Consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded)

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

second day.

7.
Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

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

Programming Committees

8.
Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the

proceedings on the Bill in Committee of the whole House, to any proceedings

on Consideration or to proceedings on Third Reading.

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Other Proceedings

9.
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.

Transparency of lobbying, non-party campaigning and trade

union administration bill PROGRAMME (NO. 3)

Mr Andrew Lansley

That the following provisions shall apply to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party

Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill for the purpose of supplementing the

Orders of 3 September 2013 (Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and

Trade Union Administration Bill: Programme) and 8 October 2013 (Transparency of

Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill: Programme

(No. 2)).:

Consideration of Lords Amendments

1.
Any Message from the Lords may be considered forthwith without any

Question being put.

2.
Proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments shall (so far as not

previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion four hours after their

commencement at today‘s sitting.

3.
The proceedings shall be taken in the order shown in the first column of the

following Table.

TABLE

Lords Amendments
Time for conclusion of proceedings

Amendments to Clause 2,
Two hours after the commencement of

Amendments to Schedule 1,
proceedings on consideration of Lords

Amendments to Schedule 2,
Amendments

remaining Amendments to Part 1

Amendments to Clause 26,
Four hours after the commencement

Amendments to Schedule 3,
of those proceedings

Amendments to Clauses 27 to 32,

Amendments to Schedule 4,

remaining Amendments to Part 2,

Amendments to Part 4, remaining

Amendments to the Bill

Subsequent stages

4.
Any further Message from the Lords may be considered forthwith without

any Question being put.

5.
The proceedings on any further Message from the Lords shall (so far as not

previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour after their

commencement.



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