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House of Commons

 
 

Wednesday 22 January 2014

 

Consideration of Lords Amendments

 

New Amendments handed in are marked thus Parliamentary Star

 

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

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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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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)

 

Parliamentary Star    

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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