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House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Tuesday 13th June 2000

The House met at half-past Two o'clock.

PRAYERS.

1 City of Newcastle upon Tyne Bill [Lords],—The Order of the day being read, for the Third Reading of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne Bill [Lords];

    Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time on Tuesday 20th June.

2 Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill,—The Order of the day being read, for the Second Reading of the Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill;

    Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time on Tuesday 20th June.

3 Message from the Lords,—A Message was brought from the Lords, as follows:

    The Lords have agreed to the Railtrack (Waverley Station) Order Confirmation Bill, without Amendment.

4 Ticket Touting (London Underground),—Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law in relation to the sale of London Underground tickets by unauthorised persons: And that Mr Neil Gerrard, Mr Harry Cohen, Mr Mike Gapes and Mr Andrew Mackinlay do prepare and bring it in.

5 Ticket Touting (London Underground) Bill,—Mr Neil Gerrard accordingly presented a Bill to amend the law in relation to the sale of London Underground tickets by unauthorised persons: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time on Friday 21st July and to be printed [Bill 139].

6 Countryside and Rights of Way Bill,—The House, according to Order, proceeded to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended in the Standing Committee.

    Ordered, That the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended, be considered in the following order: Amendments relating to Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clause 2, Schedule 2, Clauses 3 to 8, Schedule 3, Clauses 9 to 42 and Schedule 4; New Clauses relating to Part I; Amendments relating to Clauses 43 to 47, Schedule 5, Clauses 48 and 49, Schedule 6, Clauses 50 to 57, Schedule 7 and Clauses 58 and 59; New Clauses relating to Part II; Amendments relating to Clause 60, Schedule 8, Clause 61, Schedule 9, Clauses 62 to 65 and Schedule 10; New Clauses relating to Part III; Amendments relating to Clauses 66 to 70, Schedule 11 and Clauses 71 and 72; remaining new Clauses; new Schedules.—(Mr Robert Ainsworth.)

    Amendment (No. 101) proposed to the Bill, in page 1, line 12, at the end to insert the words ', and is at least 10 hectares in size'.—(Mr Damian Green.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

    Amendments (Nos. 195 to 199) made to the Bill.

    Another Amendment (No. 7) proposed to the Bill, in page 2, line 38, to leave out from the first word 'the' to the end of line 39, and to insert the words 'next 72 hours' , instead thereof.—(Mr Damian Green.)

    Question put, That the Amendment be made.

    The House divided.

    Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Mr Peter Atkinson: 156.

    Tellers for the Noes, Mr Tony McNulty, Mr Don Touhig: 285.

    Another Amendment (No. 133) proposed to the Bill, in page 41, line 9, to leave out the words 'or sailboard', and to insert the words 'other than a manually propelled vessel', instead thereof.—(Mr Andrew Miller.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

    Other Amendments (Nos. 200 to 210) made to the Bill.

    Another Amendment (No. 2) proposed to the Bill, in page 3, line 37, at the beginning to insert the words 'by the end of the period of 32 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed,'.—(Mr Andrew F. Bennett.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

    Other Amendments (Nos. 29 and 139 to 141) made to the Bill.

    Another Amendment (No. 8) proposed to the Bill, in page 8, line 7, to leave out the word 'natural'.—(Mr Damian Green.)

    Question put, That the Amendment be made.

    The House divided.

    Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Stephen Day, Mr Peter Atkinson: 149.

    Tellers for the Noes, Mrs Anne McGuire, Mr Robert Ainsworth: 282.

    Other Amendments (Nos. 142 to 144) made to the Bill.

    Another Amendment (No. 110) proposed to the Bill, in page 9, line 1, to leave out '90' and insert '21'.—(Mr James Paice.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

    Another Amendment (No. 65) proposed to the Bill, in page 10, line 23, at the end, to insert the words—

    '(6A) The relevant confirming authority shall publish guidance to access authorities as to the matters which may be included in such byelaws and the purpose thereof with the intention that byelaws in the areas of each access authority shall be consistent with the byelaws in any other access authority.'.—(Mr Andrew F. Bennett.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

    Other Amendments (Nos. 145 to 151) made to the Bill.

    Another Amendment (No. 11) proposed to the Bill, in page 12, line 6, at the end, to insert the words—

    '(1A) Under this section an entitled person may exclude or restrict access by virtue of section 2(1) to any land for no more than 40 days in any calendar year.'.—(Mr James Paice.)

    Question proposed, That the Amendment be made.

    And it being Ten o'clock, the Debate stood adjourned.

7 Business of the House,—A Motion was made, and the Question being put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), That, at this day's sitting, the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour—(Mr Kevin Hughes):—It was agreed to.

8 Countryside and Rights of Way Bill,—The House again proceeded to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended in the Standing Committee.

    Question again proposed, That the Amendment (No. 11) be made.

    Question put.

    The House divided.

    Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Peter Atkinson, Mr Stephen Day: 155.

    Tellers for the Noes, Mr Mike Hall, Mr David Jamieson: 294.

    Other Amendments (Nos. 152 to 189, 211 and 212) made to the Bill.

    A Clause (Compensation)—(Mr Edward Garnier)—brought up, and read the first time.

    Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time:—Clause, by leave, withdrawn.

    Ordered, That further consideration of the Bill be now adjourned.—(Mr David Clelland.)

    Bill to be further considered to-morrow.

9 Local Government Finance,—A Motion was made, and the Question being put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118 (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), That the Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 62) on Private Finance Initiative (House of Commons Paper No. 458), which was laid before this House on 19th May, be approved—(Mr David Clelland):—It was agreed to.

10 Adjournment,—Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr David Clelland.)

    And accordingly the House, having continued to sit till two minutes to Twelve o'clock, adjourned till to-morrow.

[Adjourned at 11.58 p.m.

Betty Boothroyd
Speaker

Madam Speaker will take the Chair at half-past Two o'clock.

APPENDIX I

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Housing,—Housing Grants (Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2000 (S.I., 2000, No. 1492), dated 6th June 2000 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].

Other Papers:

2 European Communities,—Report by the Department of Trade and Industry on the exercise of powers conferred by certain sections of the European Communities Act 1972 and the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979, for 1999-2000 [by Act]; to be printed [No. 543] [Mr Secretary Byers].

3 European Union,—Paper, entitled Developments in the European Union, July to December 1999 [by Command] [Cm. 4762] [Mr Secretary Cook].

4 Greenwich Hospital,—Accounts of the Greenwich Hospital and Travers Foundation for 1998-99, with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon [by Act]; to be printed [No. 562] [Mr Secretary Hoon].

5 Intelligence Services,—(1) Report of the Intelligence and Security Committee into the Security and Intelligence Agencies' handling of the information provided by Mr Mitrokhin, and

    (2) Government Response to the Report of the Intelligence and Security Committee into the Security and Intelligence Agencies' handling of the information provided by Mr Mitrokhin

[by Command] [Cm. 4764 and 4765] [The Prime Minister].

6 Miscellaneous (No. 15, 2000),—Convention, done at Aarhus (Denmark) on 25th June 1998, on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, with an Explanatory Memorandum [by Command] [Cm. 4736] [Mr Secretary Cook].

7 Prisons,—Report of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales for December 1998 to November 1999 [by Act]; to be printed [No. 548] [Mr Secretary Straw].

APPENDIX II

Standing Committees

Draft Horticultural Development Council (Amendment) Order 2000,—The Committee of Selection has discharged Mrs Helen Brinton and Mrs Ann Cryer from the Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation (nominated in respect of the draft Order); and nominated in substitution Tom Cox and Mr Neil Gerrard.

APPENDIX III

Reports from Select Committees

1 Environment Audit,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Environmental Audit Committee [Energy Efficiency: Government Response and Follow-up]; to be printed [No. 571-i] [Mr John Horam].

2 Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Environment Sub-Committee of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee [UK Biodiversity]; to be printed [No. 441-iv] [Mr Andrew F. Bennett].

3 Foreign Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee [China]; to be printed [No. 574-i] [Mr Donald Anderson].

4 Home Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Home Affairs Committee [Physical Controls at UK Ports of Entry]; to be printed [No. 570-i] [Mr Robin Corbett].

5 Statutory Instruments,—Twenty-first Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, together with Memoranda laid before the Commitee; to be printed [No. 47-xxi] [Mr David Tredinnick].

6 Treasury,—(1) Third Special Report from the Treasury Committee [Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000, on the 2000 Budget]; to be printed, with the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee relating to the Special Report [No. 572]; and

    (2) Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee [Economic and Monetary Union]; to be printed [No. 573-i]

[Mr Giles Radice].

Supplement to the Votes and Proceedings Tuesday 13th June 2000 Minutes of Proceedings of the Sitting in Westminster Hall
[pursuant to the Order of 24th May 1999]

The House met at Ten o'clock.
PRAYERS.
	Adjournment,—A Motion was made, and the Question being proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned—(Mrs Anne McGuire);
	And it being One o'clock, the sitting was adjourned without Question put, till to-morrow.
[Adjourned at 1 p.m.
*Sir Alan Haselhurst* *Deputy Speaker*

The House met at half-past Two o'clock.
PRAYERS.
1	City of Newcastle upon Tyne Bill [Lords],—The Order of the day being read, for the Third Reading of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne Bill [Lords];
	Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time on Tuesday 20th June.
2	Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill,—The Order of the day being read, for the Second Reading of the Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill;
	Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time on Tuesday 20th June.
3	Message from the Lords,—A Message was brought from the Lords, as follows:
	The Lords have agreed to the Railtrack (Waverley Station) Order Confirmation Bill, without Amendment.
4	Ticket Touting (London Underground),—Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law in relation to the sale of London Underground tickets by unauthorised persons: And that Mr Neil Gerrard, Mr Harry Cohen, Mr Mike Gapes and Mr Andrew Mackinlay do prepare and bring it in.
5	Ticket Touting (London Underground) Bill,—Mr Neil Gerrard accordingly presented a Bill to amend the law in relation to the sale of London Underground tickets by unauthorised persons: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time on Friday 21st July and to be printed [Bill 139].
6	Countryside and Rights of Way Bill,—The House, according to Order, proceeded to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended in the Standing Committee.
	Ordered, That the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended, be considered in the following order: Amendments relating to Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clause 2, Schedule 2, Clauses 3 to 8, Schedule 3, Clauses 9 to 42 and Schedule 4; New Clauses relating to Part I; Amendments relating to Clauses 43 to 47, Schedule 5, Clauses 48 and 49, Schedule 6, Clauses 50 to 57, Schedule 7 and Clauses 58 and 59; New Clauses relating to Part II; Amendments relating to Clause 60, Schedule 8, Clause 61, Schedule 9, Clauses 62 to 65 and Schedule 10; New Clauses relating to Part III; Amendments relating to Clauses 66 to 70, Schedule 11 and Clauses 71 and 72; remaining new Clauses; new Schedules.—(Mr Robert Ainsworth.)
	Amendment (No. 101) proposed to the Bill, in page 1, line 12, at the end to insert the words ', and is at least 10 hectares in size'.—(Mr Damian Green.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
	Amendments (Nos. 195 to 199) made to the Bill.
	Another Amendment (No. 7) proposed to the Bill, in page 2, line 38, to leave out from the first word 'the' to the end of line 39, and to insert the words 'next 72 hours' , instead thereof.—(Mr Damian Green.)
	Question put, That the Amendment be made.
	The House divided.
	Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Mr Peter Atkinson: 156.
	Tellers for the Noes, Mr Tony McNulty, Mr Don Touhig: 285.
	Another Amendment (No. 133) proposed to the Bill, in page 41, line 9, to leave out the words 'or sailboard', and to insert the words 'other than a manually propelled vessel', instead thereof.—(Mr Andrew Miller.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
	Other Amendments (Nos. 200 to 210) made to the Bill.
	Another Amendment (No. 2) proposed to the Bill, in page 3, line 37, at the beginning to insert the words 'by the end of the period of 32 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed,'.—(Mr Andrew F. Bennett.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
	Other Amendments (Nos. 29 and 139 to 141) made to the Bill.
	Another Amendment (No. 8) proposed to the Bill, in page 8, line 7, to leave out the word 'natural'.—(Mr Damian Green.)
	Question put, That the Amendment be made.
	The House divided.
	Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Stephen Day, Mr Peter Atkinson: 149.
	Tellers for the Noes, Mrs Anne McGuire, Mr Robert Ainsworth: 282.
	Other Amendments (Nos. 142 to 144) made to the Bill.
	Another Amendment (No. 110) proposed to the Bill, in page 9, line 1, to leave out '90' and insert '21'.—(Mr James Paice.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
	Another Amendment (No. 65) proposed to the Bill, in page 10, line 23, at the end, to insert the words—
	'(6A) The relevant confirming authority shall publish guidance to access authorities as to the matters which may be included in such byelaws and the purpose thereof with the intention that byelaws in the areas of each access authority shall be consistent with the byelaws in any other access authority.'.—(Mr Andrew F. Bennett.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
	Other Amendments (Nos. 145 to 151) made to the Bill.
	Another Amendment (No. 11) proposed to the Bill, in page 12, line 6, at the end, to insert the words—
	'(1A) Under this section an entitled person may exclude or restrict access by virtue of section 2(1) to any land for no more than 40 days in any calendar year.'.—(Mr James Paice.)
	Question proposed, That the Amendment be made.
	And it being Ten o'clock, the Debate stood adjourned.
7	Business of the House,—A Motion was made, and the Question being put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business), That, at this day's sitting, the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour—(Mr Kevin Hughes):—It was agreed to.
8	Countryside and Rights of Way Bill,—The House again proceeded to consider the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, as amended in the Standing Committee.
	Question again proposed, That the Amendment (No. 11) be made.
	Question put.
	The House divided.
	Tellers for the Ayes, Mr Peter Atkinson, Mr Stephen Day: 155.
	Tellers for the Noes, Mr Mike Hall, Mr David Jamieson: 294.
	Other Amendments (Nos. 152 to 189, 211 and 212) made to the Bill.
	A Clause (Compensation)—(Mr Edward Garnier)—brought up, and read the first time.
	Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time:—Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
	Ordered, That further consideration of the Bill be now adjourned.—(Mr David Clelland.)
	Bill to be further considered to-morrow.
9	Local Government Finance,—A Motion was made, and the Question being put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118 (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), That the Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 62) on Private Finance Initiative (House of Commons Paper No. 458), which was laid before this House on 19th May, be approved—(Mr David Clelland):—It was agreed to.
10	Adjournment,—Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr David Clelland.)
	And accordingly the House, having continued to sit till two minutes to Twelve o'clock, adjourned till to-morrow.
[Adjourned at 11.58 p.m.
*Betty Boothroyd* *Speaker*
Madam Speaker will take the Chair at half-past Two o'clock.
APPENDIX I
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
1	Housing,—Housing Grants (Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2000 (S.I., 2000, No. 1492), dated 6th June 2000 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
Other Papers:
2	European Communities,—Report by the Department of Trade and Industry on the exercise of powers conferred by certain sections of the European Communities Act 1972 and the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979, for 1999-2000 [by Act]; to be printed [No. 543] [Mr Secretary Byers].
3	European Union,—Paper, entitled Developments in the European Union, July to December 1999 [by Command] [Cm. 4762] [Mr Secretary Cook].
4	Greenwich Hospital,—Accounts of the Greenwich Hospital and Travers Foundation for 1998-99, with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon [by Act]; to be printed [No. 562] [Mr Secretary Hoon].
5	Intelligence Services,—(1) Report of the Intelligence and Security Committee into the Security and Intelligence Agencies' handling of the information provided by Mr Mitrokhin, and
	(2) Government Response to the Report of the Intelligence and Security Committee into the Security and Intelligence Agencies' handling of the information provided by Mr Mitrokhin
	[by Command] [Cm. 4764 and 4765] [The Prime Minister].
6	Miscellaneous (No. 15, 2000),—Convention, done at Aarhus (Denmark) on 25th June 1998, on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, with an Explanatory Memorandum [by Command] [Cm. 4736] [Mr Secretary Cook].
7	Prisons,—Report of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales for December 1998 to November 1999 [by Act]; to be printed [No. 548] [Mr Secretary Straw].
APPENDIX II
Standing Committees
	Draft Horticultural Development Council (Amendment) Order 2000,—The Committee of Selection has discharged Mrs Helen Brinton and Mrs Ann Cryer from the Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation (nominated in respect of the draft Order); and nominated in substitution Tom Cox and Mr Neil Gerrard.
APPENDIX III
Reports from Select Committees
1	Environment Audit,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Environmental Audit Committee [Energy Efficiency: Government Response and Follow-up]; to be printed [No. 571-i] [Mr John Horam].
2	Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Environment Sub-Committee of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee [UK Biodiversity]; to be printed [No. 441-iv] [Mr Andrew F. Bennett].
3	Foreign Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee [China]; to be printed [No. 574-i] [Mr Donald Anderson].
4	Home Affairs,—Minutes of Evidence taken before the Home Affairs Committee [Physical Controls at UK Ports of Entry]; to be printed [No. 570-i] [Mr Robin Corbett].
5	Statutory Instruments,—Twenty-first Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, together with Memoranda laid before the Commitee; to be printed [No. 47-xxi] [Mr David Tredinnick].
6	Treasury,—(1) Third Special Report from the Treasury Committee [Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000, on the 2000 Budget]; to be printed, with the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee relating to the Special Report [No. 572]; and
	(2) Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee [Economic and Monetary Union]; to be printed [No. 573-i]
	[Mr Giles Radice].



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