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The House met at half-past Eleven o'clock.
PRAYERS.
1 City of London (Ward Elections) Bill,-The Order of the day being read, for further consideration of the City of London (Ward Elections) Bill, as amended by the Chairman of Ways and Means;
Ordered, That the Bill be further considered on Thursday 15th March.
2 Liaison,-Mr Robert Sheldon reported, pursuant to Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee), That the Liaison Committee had directed him to report the following recommendation for the allocation of time for the consideration of Estimates on an allotted day (being the second allotted day in the present Session of Parliament):
That a day not later than 18th March be allotted for the consideration of the following Vote on Account for the financial year 2001-02:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office in so far as it relates to expenditure on policy relating to weapons of mass destruction.
Report to lie upon the Table.
3 Standing Committee F (Conduct of Members),-Mr Roger Gale reported from Standing Committee F, to which the Criminal Justice and Police Bill was referred, That, having drawn attention to the presence of Miss Ann Widdecombe, Member for Maidstone and the Weald, Mr Patrick McLoughlin, Member for West Derbyshire, Mr James Cran, Member for Beverley and Holderness and Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Member for Cotswold, not being members of the Committee, in the part of the Committee Room reserved for members of the Committee, and the honourable Members having declined to withdraw, he had been directed to report Miss Ann Widdecombe, Mr Patrick McLoughlin, Mr James Cran and Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown to the House.
Report to lie upon the Table.
4 Ways and Means,-Amendment of the Law,-The Order of the day being read, for resuming the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed yesterday:
(1) That it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (6) below, this Resolution does not extend to the making of any amendment with respect to value added tax so as to provide-
(a) for zero-rating or exempting a supply, acquisition or importation;
(b) for refunding an amount of tax;
(c) for varying any rate at which that tax is at any time chargeable;
(d) for any relief, other than a relief which-
(i) so far as it is applicable to goods, applies to goods of every description, and
(ii) so far as it is applicable to services, applies to services of every description.
(3) Paragraph (2) above does not exclude the making of amendments with respect to value added tax-
(a) providing for refunds of the kind specified in paragraph (4) below;
(b) providing for that tax to be charged at a reduced rate of 5 per cent. on supplies of the descriptions specified in paragraph (5) below (and on equivalent acquisitions and importations); or
(c) making provision of the kind authorised by paragraph (6) below.
(4) The refunds mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) above are refunds of value added tax where-
(a) that tax is chargeable on a supply to, or an acquisition or importation by, a museum or gallery, and
(b) the supply, acquisition or importation is attributable to supplies of free rights of admission to the museum or gallery.
(5) The supplies mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) above are-
(a) supplies, in the course of a conversion of a building (or part of a building), of services related to the conversion if after the conversion the building (or part) contains living accommodation;
(b) supplies, in the course of the renovation or alteration (including the extension) of a dwelling that has been unoccupied for at least three years, of services related to the renovation or alteration;
(c) supplies of goods by a person making a supply of services within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above if-
(i) those services include the incorporation of the goods into the building concerned (or its site), and
(ii) the goods are building materials within the meaning of Group 5 of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994;
(d) supplies of children's car seats.
(6) The provision authorised by this paragraph is provision re-enacting, without altering any person's liability to value added tax or the amount of any such liability, provisions providing for that tax to be charged at a reduced rate of 5 per cent. on certain supplies, acquisitions and importations;
And the Question being again proposed:-The House resumed the adjourned Debate.
And it being Seven o'clock, the Debate stood adjourned.
Ordered, That the Debate be resumed on Monday 12th March.
5 Adjournment,-Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Clive Betts.)
And accordingly the House, having continued to sit till twenty-eight minutes past Seven o'clock, adjourned till to-morrow.
[Adjourned at 7.28 p.m.
Michael J. Martin
Speaker
Mr Speaker will take the Chair at half-past Nine o'clock.
APPENDIX I
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
1 Children and Young Persons,-Protection of Children (Access to Lists) (Prescribed Individuals) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 744), dated 8th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Milburn].
2 Customs and Excise,-(1) Air Passenger Duty (Connected Flights) (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 809), and
(2) Air Passenger Duty (Designated Region of the United Kingdom) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 808)
dated 8th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Stephen Timms].
3 Disabled Persons,-Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 785), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
4 Education,-(1) Education (Bursaries for School Teacher Training Pilot Scheme) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 800), dated 6th March 2001,
(2) Education Maintenance Allowance and School Access Funds (England) Grants Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 797), dated 6th March 2001,
(3) Education (Publication of Draft Proposals and Orders) (Further Education Corporations) (England) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 782), dated 5th March 2001,
(4) Learning and Skills Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) (Schools) (England) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 783), dated 5th March 2001,
(5) School Organisation Proposals by the Learning and Skills Council for England Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 798), dated 5th March 2001, and
(6) West Oxfordshire College (Dissolution) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 781), dated 5th March 2001
[by Act] [Mr Secretary Blunkett].
5 Environmental Protection,-Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 503), dated 22nd February 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
6 Evidence,-Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 773), dated 6th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr David Lock].
7 Family Proceedings,-Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 775), dated 6th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr David Lock].
8 Highways,-Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 788), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
9 Income Tax,-Capital Allowances (Corresponding Northern Ireland Grants) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 810), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Stephen Timms].
10 Industrial and Provident Societies,-Credit Unions (Increase in Limits on Deposits by persons too young to be members and of Periods for the Repayment of Loans) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 811), dated 8th March 2001 [by Act] [Miss Melanie Johnson].
11 Magistrates' Courts,-Magistrates' Courts (Blood Tests) (Amendment) Rules 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 776), dated 6th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr David Lock].
12 National Health Service,-(1) Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 740), dated 7th March 2001,
(2) National Treatment Agency (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 715), dated 6th March 2001,
(3) North and East Devon Health Authority (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 708), dated 6th March 2001,
(4) Special Trustees for the Former United Birmingham Hospitals (Transfer of Trust Property) No 2 Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 792), dated 7th March 2001, and
(5) Special Trustees for the Former United Birmingham Hospitals (Transfer of Trust Property) Revocation Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 791), dated 7th March 2001
[by Act] [Mr Secretary Milburn].
13 Parliament,-Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 835), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Margaret Beckett].
14 Probation,-Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 786), dated 2nd March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Straw].
15 Road Traffic,-Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (City of Plymouth) Order 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 787), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Prescott].
16 Social Security,-Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 721), dated 5th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Darling].
17 Telegraphs,-Wireless Telegraphy (Television Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 772), dated 6th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Secretary Smith].
18 Value Added Tax,-Value Added Tax (Electronic Communications) (Incentives) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 759), dated 7th March 2001 [by Act] [Mr Stephen Timms].
Other Papers:
19 Local Government (Scotland),- Accounts of the Accounts Commission for Scotland for the five months to 31st March 2000, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon [by Act]; to be printed [No. 310] [Clerk of the House].
20 National Audit,-Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Inland Flood Defence [by Act]; to be printed [No. 299] [Clerk of the House].
21 School Standards and Framework,-Accounts of the:-
(1) Hastings and St Leonards Education Action Zone, and
(2) Leigh Park Education Action Zone
for 1999-2000, with the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon [by Act]; to be printed [Nos. 322 and 320] [Clerk of the House].
22 Special Procedure Orders,-Report by the Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords and the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons, under section 3 of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945, that no Petition has been presented against the Leeds Supertram (Land Acquisition and Road Works) Order 2001 and Leeds Supertram (Extension) Order 2001 [by Act] [Chairman of Ways and Means].
APPENDIX II
Standing Committees
1 International Development Bill,-(1) The Speaker has appointed Mrs Cheryl Gillan, Mr Paul Goggins, Mr Tony McNulty, Mr Chris Mullin, Mr Keith Simpson, Dr Jenny Tonge and Mr Dennis Turner members of the Programming Sub-Committee of Standing Committee B in respect of the Bill.
(2) The Committee of Selection has discharged Mr Gary Streeter from Standing Committee B (nominated in respect of the Bill); and nominated in substitution Mr Andrew Robathan.
APPENDIX III
Reports from Select Committees
1 Culture, Media and Sport,-Minutes of Evidence taken before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee [Staging International Sporting Events]; to be printed [No. 286-ii] [Mr Gerald Kaufman].
2 Liaison,-First Report from the Liaison Committee [Shifting the Balance: Unfinished Business], together with Appendices; to be printed, with the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee relating to the Report [No. 321] [Mr Robert Sheldon].
3 Public Accounts,-Seventh Report from the Public Accounts Committee [Excess Votes 1999-2000: Class X, Votes 2 and 3]; to be printed, with the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee relating to the Report [No. 284] [Mr David Davis].
[W.H., No. 28]
Minutes of Proceedings of the Sitting in Westminster Hall
[pursuant to the Order of 20th November 2000]
The sitting commenced at half-past Two o'clock .
Adjournment (Public funding of civil legal services),-Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Jim Dowd.)
And accordingly the sitting was adjourned till Tuesday 13th March.
[Adjourned at 4.56 p.m.
Sir Alan Haselhurst
Deputy Speaker
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