 House of Commons |
Session 1998-1999 |
Index to Commons Journal 255 Part II
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Academic and Academic-related Staff Pay and Conditions Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 433. Access to Environmental Information Bill: Presented and read the first time, 113. Access to Justice Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 210. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 262. E, 277. Reported, with Amendments and changed long title, 319. As amended, considered; long title amended; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 393. Lords agree to certain Commons Amendments, agree to another with an Amendment, and disagree to others, with Reasons, 910. Lords Reasons considered; Commons do not insist on Amendments disagreed to, but make Amendments in Lieu; and disagree to Lords Amendment to Commons Amendment, but make Amendment in lieu, 465. Lords agree to Commons Amendments in lieu, do not insist on their Amendment to Commons Amendment, and agree to Commons Amendment in lieu of that Amendment, 481. (Cited as Access to Justice Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Money Resolution, 262. Ways and Means Resolution, 391. Order, That notwithstanding Sessional Order relating to Meetings of Standing Committees, Committee on the Bill may meet at any hour, 282. ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS I. Addresses for Papers: Addresses for Papers, and Papers presented accordingly: —Election Expenses, 143. II. Orders for Papers: Sessional Returns ordered: —for Session 1997–98, 16. Sessional Returns laid upon the Table: —for Session 1997–98, 90. [Returns for Business of the House; Chairmen's Panel; Closure of Debate; Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time (including Programme Motions); Delegated Legislation and Deregulation Orders; European Legislation, &c.; Grand Committees; Private Bills and Private Business; Public Bills; Select Committees; and Sittings of the House.] Other papers ordered; and presented or laid upon the Table accordingly: —Report on the Revision of the Average Earning Index, 156. —Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and Budget Report, March 1999, 177, 179. —Contingencies Fund 1997–98, 348. III. Papers Presented Under Other Authorities: Presented by Her Majesty's Command, 5, &c. —during Adjournment or Prorogation, 30, &c. Presented, pursuant to Act, 5, &c. —during Adjournment or Prorogation, 5, &c. —subject to Affirmative Resolution, 6, &c. —subject to Negative Resolution, 5, &c. Presented, pursuant to Statutory Instrument, 7, &c. Presented, pursuant to Standing Orders: —relating to Public Business: (Printing of petitions and ministerial replies), 15, &c. IV. Papers Presented or Laid by Various Persons: Presented by Minister of the Crown, 5, &c. Laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House, 7, &c. Laid upon the Table by the Speaker, 24, &c. Presented by the Chairman of Ways and Means, 182. Presented by the Chairman of Public Accounts Commission, 254, &c. V. Miscellaneous: Papers ordered to be printed, 5, &c. Papers withdrawn, 28, &c. ADDRESSES I. Of Thanks (Queen's Speech): Motion made; Debate stood adjourned (it being Ten o'clock), 4. Resumed and ordered to be adjourned, 6, 13. Resumed and stood adjourned (it being Ten o'clock), 10. Resumed; Amendment negatived on Division; Debate stood adjourned (it being after Ten o'clock), 14. Resumed; another Amendment negatived on Division; another Amendment negatived on Division, Question having been put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Calling of amendments at end of debate); Main Question agreed to, 17. Queen's Answer, 32. II. For Returns: [See also Accounts and Papers I] Election Expenses, 143. III. Relating to Delegated Legislation: ADDRESSES—continued IV. Miscellaneous: Questions for presenting Addresses: —agreed to, 17. —after Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Calling of amendments at end of debate), 17. Addresses to be presented by Privy Counsellors or members of Her Majesty's Household, 17, &c. Queen's Answers to Addresses, 32, &c. ADJOURNMENT DEBATES ON SPECIFIED SUBJECTS (Other than on Wednesday mornings) The European Union, 27. Iraq, 60. Welsh Affairs, 151. The Government's Priorities for Women, Progress on their Delivery, 174. Kosovo, 238. Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, 243. Kosovo (No. 2), 269. Defence Equipment, 283. Modernising London's Health Service, 306. Kosovo (No. 3), 328. European Union, 346. White Paper on Reforming the House of Lords (Cm. 4183), 361. Defence in the World, 365. Kosovo (No. 4), 383. Tourism in the New Millennium, 385. Innovation and Enterprise, 402. Armed Forces Personnel, 414. Drugs, 415. Policing of London, 452. Economic Stability and Public Services, 489. First Report from the Treasury Committee on the Office for National Statistics and Reports from the Select Committee on Public Administration on the Work of the Ombudsman, 492. Report from the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, 528. Agriculture, 533. Future of Broadcasting, 534. Family-friendly Employment Policies, 553. Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 261. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 281. C, 283. Transferred to D, 317. Reported, with Amendments, 330. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 367. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 458. (Cited as Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Age (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 228. Age Limits on Health Care Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 131. Alliance & Leicester Plc (Group Reorganisation) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords (suspended from Last Session), 10. Read the first time, 14. Read a second time and committed, 69. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 549. Lords Message communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 552. AMENDMENTS TO QUESTIONS [For Amendments to Bills, see Bills, Private and Bills, Public. See also European Community/Union Documents, Opposition, Resolutions and Addresses.] I. Amendments Made: Opposition days: —to Motions for Resolutions, 35, &c. [See Opposition.] Other Government Amendments to Opposition Motions, 524. Private Member's Motions (debated in Government time): —(Line of Route), 349. Government Motions: —(Travel by Members to National Parliaments and European Union Institutions), 350. Question for a new Writ, by leaving out all the words after ‘That' and adding ‘this House do pass to the Orders of the day' (Question superseded), 243. II. Amendments Negatived: —after Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order (Calling of amendments at end of debate), 17. Bills, Public: —Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading, 32, &c. Government Motion (Modernisation of the House of Commons), 343. Standing Orders, Motions to modify until end of present Session of Parliament: —after Question put forthwith, pursuant to Order, 56. III. Amendments Withdrawn: Question on Amendment put forthwith, pursuant to Order, 56. Animal Welfare (Prohibition of Imports) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 356. Attorney General: See Law Officers. Baxi Partnership Limited Trusts Bill [Lords]: To originate in the Lords, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Brought from the Lords; read the first time and referred to the Examiners, 436. Examiner's Report, no Standing Order not previously inquired into applicable, 475. Read a second time and committed, 512. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 535. Lords Message communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 538.Bells on Pedal Cycles Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 331. BILLS, PRIVATE I. Private Bills Proceeded Upon, &c.:
II. Suspended Bills: 1. At beginning of Session: Suspended Lords Bills: —read the first time, 14. —read the first and second time and ordered to be committed, 26. 2. At end of Session: Orders (which are to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings on Bills: —Commons Bills in Commons, 540. —Commons Bills in Lords, 535. —Messages to the Lords: —to acquaint them with Orders made by the Commons, 528 &c. Messages from the Lords communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings on Bills: —Lords Bills in Lords, 550. —Commons Bills in Lords, 532. Messages from the Lords communicating Resolutions similar to Orders made by the Commons relating to suspension of proceedings on Bills originating in the Lords, 532, 538. Motion relating to suspension of proceedings on Bill; objection taken to further proceeding; Debate to be resumed on a future day, 531. Resumed on a future day (at Seven o'clock); Questions agreed to, 539. III. Presentation of Petitions and First Readings: Report of lists of Bills to originate in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, 41. Commons Bills read the first time, 89, &c. Lords Bills read the first time and referred to the Examiners, 136 &c. IV. Second Readings and Committal: Days appointed for Second Reading, 104, &c. Orders for Second Reading read; Bills to be read a second time on future days, 107, &c. Bills read a second time and committed, 69, &c. —at Seven o'clock, 145. —on Division, 145. Bill read a second time and referred to the Examiners, 104. V. Reports from the Examiners: Petitions for Bills: —Standing Orders complied with, 63. BILLS, PRIVATE V—continued Bills originating in the Lords and referred after First Reading: —no Standing Order not previously inquired into applicable, 151, &c. Bill referred after Second Reading: VI. Reports from the Standing Orders Committee: Resolution, That dispensation from provisions of Standing Order (Petitions against private bills) ought to be granted in the case of a late petition against a Bill; Resolution agreed to, 458. VII. Reports from Committees: Bills reported from the Committee on Unopposed Bills: —with Amendments, 185. —without Amendments, 206. —with Amendments, an amended Preamble and an amended Title, 420. Bills reported from Committees on Opposed Bills: —with Amendments, 374. —with Special Report, 374. Preamble proved, 185, &c. —as amended, proved, 420. VIII. Consideration: Order for [further] consideration read; Bill to be considered on a future day, —on a future day (at Seven o'clock), 428. —further considered on a future day, 458. Bills considered: —as amended in the Committee, 209, &c. —as amended in the Committee, at Seven o'clock, 443. Further consideration stood adjourned; it being after Ten o'clock, 444. BILLS, PRIVATE VIII—continued Order for further consideration read and discharged, 542. IX. Third Readings: Bills read the third time and passed: —Commons Bills, 245, &c. —Lords Bill, with Amendments, 227. Queen's Consent signified on Motion being made for Third Reading, 270. X. Lords Amendments: Commons Bills agreed to by the Lords: XI. Lords Bills: Lords Bills passed: —with Amendments, 227. Lords agree to Commons Amendments, 232. XII. Miscellaneous: Opposed private business taken at Seven o'clock: —Second Reading, 145. —Consideration, 443. —Suspension motion, 539. Return relating to Private Bills and Private Business for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. BILLS, PUBLIC I. Public Bills Introduced, &c.: 1. Government Bills which received Royal Assent:
2. Government Bills which did not receive Royal Assent:
3. Private Members' Bills which received Royal Assent:
4. Private Members' Bills which did not receive Royal Assent:
II. Introductions and First Readings: Outlawries Bill read the first time, 2. Bills presented and read the first time: —Government Bills, 6, &c. —Private Members' Bills, 69, &c. —Lords Bills read the first time, 101, &c. Private Members' Bills ordered, presented and read the first time, 91, &c. Bills presented under Standing Order (Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue), 20. Bills ordered to be brought in upon: —Ways and Means and Procedure Resolutions, 204. Motions for leave to bring in Bills, Question put pursuant to Standing Order (Motions for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees at commencement of public business): —and agreed to, 91, &c. —and agreed to on Division, 119, &c. Explanatory Notes relating to Bills ordered to be printed: —Government Bills, 6, &c. —Private Members' Bills, 136, &c. III. Second Readings and Committal: Days appointed for Second Readings: —(Government Bills), 10, &c. —(Private Members' Bills), 69, &c. —resumption of dropped Order, 267. BILLS, PUBLIC III—continued Orders for Second Readings on future days read and discharged: —Bills ordered to be read a second time on other future days, 168, &c. Bills stood referred to Second Reading Committees, pursuant to Standing Order (Law Commission bills), 177, 370. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock on a Friday); Debate ordered to be resumed on a future day, 154, &c. Orders read for resuming adjourned Debate on Second Reading; Debate to be resumed on a future day, 238, &c. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment proposed; Debate ordered to be adjourned, 47. Debate resumed; Reasoned Amendment negatived, 50. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment proposed; Debate stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock), 101. Debate resumed; Reasoned Amendment negatived, 105. Day appointed for resumption of adjourned Debate on Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading, 47, &c. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived on Division, 32, &c. Motion for Second Reading; Queen's Consent signified; objection taken to further proceeding 476, 478. Queen's Consent signified on Order being read for Second Reading: —(prerogative), 101, &c. —(prerogrative and interest), 440. Prince of Wales's consent signified on Order being read for Second Reading, 101. Bills read a second time, 21, &c. —on Division, 21, &c. Bill referred to specified Selection Committee, with Instruction that Committee should consider the provision of the Bill and report thereon by specified date, 455. Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House, 21, &c. —after Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Committal of bills), 105, &c. Bills stood committed to a Standing Committee, 29, &c. Specified Clauses of (and Schedules to) a Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House and the remainder of the Bill committed to a Standing Committee, 51, 271. —after Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Committal of bills), 271. Specified Clause of Bill committed to a Committee of the whole House and the remainder of the Bill committed to a Standing Committee, 89. Bills committed to a Special Standing Committee, 136. BILLS, PUBLIC IV—continued IV. Committees of the Whole House: Order for House to resolve itself into a Committee on a future day, 51, &c. —again, 82, &c. House resolves itself into a Committee on a Bill: —immediately, 323. —according to Order, 22, &c. —again, according to Order, 84, &c. —immediately after completion of proceedings on Money resolution, pursuant to Allocation of Time or Programme Order, 22, 439. Bill stands committed to a Committee of the whole House, pursuant to Allocation of Time or Programme Order, 21, 439. House resolves itself into a Committee on specified Clauses and Schedules, according to Order, 81. —again, 84. Question proposed, That Amendment be made; And it being Ten o'clock Chairman left Chair to report progress, etc., 128; Question again proposed at next sitting, 131. Amendment made, 316. Question proposed, That Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn, 81, &c. Question, That Amendment be made, negatived on Division, 81, &c. Question proposed, That Clause be read a second time; And it being Ten o'clock Chairman left Chair to report progress, &c., 164; Question again proposed at next sitting, 164. Clauses agreed to, 22, &c. —on Division, 22, &c. The Chairman, being of opinion that principle of Clause and any matters arising thereon had been adequately discussed in the course of debate on Amendments proposed thereto, put forthwith the Question, pursuant to Standing Order (Debate on clause or schedule standing part), That Clause stand part of the Bill; Question agreed to, 131. Clauses, as amended, agreed to, 316. New Clause brought up and read the first time: —Question proposed, That Clause be read a second time; Clause, by leave, withdrawn, 169, &c. Schedules agreed to, 23, &c. Chairman leaves Chair at (or after) Ten o'clock to report progress, etc., 82, &c. —Bill again considered in Committee at future sitting, 84, &c. To report progress and ask leave to sit again, 82, &c. Bills to be reported: —(without Amendment), 23, &c. —as amended, 316. —(specified Clause), without Amendment, 120. —(specified Clauses), without Amendment, 288. —(specified Clauses and Schedules), without Amendment, 85. BILLS, PUBLIC V—continued V. Reports from Committees: Bills reported from Standing Committees: —without Amendment, 76, &c. —with an Amendment, 136. —with Amendments, 66, &c. —as so far amended (pursuant to Order), 563. Progress reported on Bill in Committee of the whole House, 82, &c. Bills reported from Committee of the whole House: —without Amendment, 23, &c. —with an Amendment, 316. —(specified Clause), without Amendment, 120. —(specified Clauses), without Amendment, 288. —(specified Clauses and Schedules), without Amendment, 85. Bills, except specified Clause or Clauses etc., reported from Standing Committee, with Amendments, 124, 245, 388. Bill reported from Special Standing Committee, with Amendments, 328. VI. Consideration: Days appointed for consideration of Bills: —not amended in the Standing Committee, 76, &c. —as amended in the Standing Committee, 66, &c. —as amended in the Special Standing Committee, 328. Days appointed for further consideration of Bills, 229, &c. Bills considered, according to Order: —not amended in the Committee and as amended in the Standing Committee, 156, 298, 417. —further considered, 420. Bill, as amended in Committee of the whole House, considered (immediately after report from the Committee), 316. Bills to be considered in a certain order, 325. New Clauses brought up, read the first and second time, and added to the Bill, 156, &c. New Clauses brought up, read the first time, 87, &c. —Question proposed, That (new) Clause be read a second time:—Clause, by leave, withdrawn, 87, &c. Question put, That (new) Clause be read a second time: —and negatived, on Division, 87, &c. —and agreed to, on Division, 156, &c. BILLS, PUBLIC VI—continued Amendment proposed to proposed (new) Clause; Question, That the Amendment be made, negatived, on Division, 325. (New) Clauses added to the Bill, 156, &c. Question proposed, That (new) Clause be read a second time: —Debate stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock), 229, &c. —Question again proposed at same sitting, 229, &c. —Deputy Speaker interrupted proceedings, pursuant to Standing Order (Friday sittings), 339. Amendments proposed to the Bill, 87, &c. Question proposed, That Amendment be made:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn, 121, &c. Question proposed, That Amendment be made; Debate adjourned (it being half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 322, 367, 476. —Debate ordered to be resumed on future day, 340, &c. — Debate resumed, 367, &c. Question put, That Amendment be made: —and negatived, 235, &c. —and negatived, on Division, 87, &c. —and agreed to, on Division, 252. Amendments made to the Bill, 120, &c. Manuscript Amendment made to the Bill, 120. New Schedules brought up, read the first and second time, and added to the Bill, 121, &c. Clauses, Schedule and part of a Schedule transferred to different position in Bill, 393. Title amended, 393, &c. Further proceedings stood postponed, it being after Seven o'clock, pursuant to Standing Order (Time for taking private Business), 443. Proceedings resumed, 444. Further consideration of Bill stood adjourned (at or after Ten o'clock), 120, &c. —Bill ordered to be further considered at a future sitting, 326, &c. —Bill again considered (or further considered) at same sitting, 120, &c. Order, That further consideration of Bill be now adjourned, 229, &c. —Bill to be further considered at a future sitting, 229, &c. VII. Third Readings: Motion for Third Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived on Division, 211. Bills read the third time, and passed, 23, &c. —on Division, 87, &c. Consolidated Fund Bills read the third time, after Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Consolidated Fund Bills), 52, 224, 437. Queen's Consent signified, 121, &c. Prince of Wales's Consent signified, 121. BILLS, PUBLIC VIII—continued VIII. Lords Bills: Bills brought from the Lords: —and read the first time on the same day, 101, &c. —and read the first time on a subsequent day, 256, &c. Lords Bills passed: —with Amendments, 346, &c. —with an Amendment, 145. —with Amendments (Title accordingly amended), 346, &c. —without Amendment, 444. Lords agree to Commons Amendments, 448, &c. —a single Amendment, 146. Lords agree to a Commons Amendment, with an Amendment, 448. Lords disagree to Commons Amendments, with Reasons, 448. Lords Amendment to Commons Amendment and Lords Reasons for disagreeing to Commons Amendments to be considered on a future day, 448. Lords Reasons and Lords Amendment to Commons Amendment considered; Commons do not insist on their Amendments but make Amendments in lieu; and disagree to Lords Amendment to Commons amendment but make Amendment in lieu, 465. Lords agree to Commons Amendments in lieu, do not insist on their Amendment to Commons Amendment, and agree to Commons amendment in lieu of that Amendment, 481. IX. Lords Amendments, &c.: Commons Bills: Bills agreed to by the Lords: —without Amendment, 60, &c. —with Amendments, 356, &c. —with an Amendment, 174. Days appointed for consideration of Lords Amendments, 356, &c. —further consideration, 466, &c. Lords Amendments considered: —according to Order, 391, &c. —forthwith, 174. Lords Amendments agreed to, 466, &c. —a single Lords Amendment agreed to, 174. —the Commons being willing to waive their privileges, 391, &c. Lords Amendments disagreed to, 390, &c. —Amendments made to the Bill in lieu thereof, 545, &c. Amendments made to words so restored to the Bill after Lords Amendment disagreed to, 544, &c. Amendments consequential to Lords Amendments agreed to, 556, &c. Question proposed, That Amendment be made to Lords Amendment:—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn, 570. Question, That Amendment be made to Lords Amendment, put and negatived, 561, &c. —on Division, 561, &c. BILLS, PUBLIC IX—continued Amendments made to Lords Amendments; and Lords Amendments, so amended, agreed to, 481, &c. Committees appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords, 391, &c. Reports therefrom, 391, &c. [See Committees, Select V]. Further consideration of Lords Amendments stood adjourned: —(it being at or after Ten o'clock), 466. —(it being at or after Seven o'clock (on a Thursday)), 551. Lords do not insist on Amendments disagreed to by the Commons, 403, &c. —and have agreed to Commons Amendments to the Bill in lieu of Lords Amendments disagreed to, 554. —and have agreed to Commons Amendment to a Lords Amendment, 484, &c. Lords agree, without Amendment, to Commons Amendments to words restored to the Bill, 554, &c. —disagree to another Commons Amendment, but propose Amendment in lieu thereof, 554. To which the Commons disagree, 564. Lords Amendments to Commons Amendment to words restored to the Bill disagreed to, 564. X. Queen's and Prince of Wales's Consent signified: Queen's Consent signified: —on Second Reading, 101, &c. —on Third Reading, 121, &c. Prince of Wales's Consent signified: —on Second Reading, 101. —on Third Reading, 121. XI. Bills whose main object is to create a charge on the Public Revenue: Scottish Enterprise Bill, 20. XII. Money Bills: Bills endorsed with the Speaker's Certificate as Money Bills under the Parliament Act 1911: Consolidated Fund Bill, 60. Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill, 231. Finance Bill, 428. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, 447. XIII. Scottish Bills: Bills certified by the Speaker as, in her opinion, relating exclusively to Scotland: Cheques Bill (Scotland), 215. Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill, 191. Scottish Enterprise Bill, 46. BILLS, PUBLIC XIV—continued XIV. Bills passed through Several Stages in One Day: Order, That more than one stage of Bill may be taken at one sitting of the House, 410. Bill read a second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House; further proceedings stood postponed, pursuant to Order [that day]; Money Resolution; House immediately resolved itself into a Committee, pursuant to such Order; Bill considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the third time, and passed, 21, 439. Bill considered in Committee of the whole House; reported, with an Amendment; as amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 317. Bill read a second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House; considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment, 323. Bills considered, read the third time and passed, 87, &c. XV. Allocation of Time and Programme Orders: Allocation of Time Orders: European Parliamentary Elections Bill, 20. Greater London Authority Bill (Supplemental), 554. Health Bill [Lords], 374. Programme Orders: Northern Ireland Bill, 437. Tax Credits Bill, 389. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords], 428. Business Sub-Committee nominated, 83. Order in which Bills are to be considered contained in Allocation of Time or Programme Orders: Scope of Orders: —Second Reading, Committee, Consideration and Third Reading, 20. —Second Reading, Committee, Consideration, Third Reading and Lords Amendments, 437. BILLS, PUBLIC XV—continued —Committee and Standing Committee, 73. —Proceedings on any further Lords Messages, 482. Speaker puts Questions at specified hours (or after specified periods): On Second Reading, 21. House resolves itself into Committee of the whole House, immediately after completion of proceedings on Money Resolution, pursuant to Order, 22, 439. At specified hour Chairman puts Question already proposed from the Chair: —that Clause be read a second time, 439. At specified hour Chairman puts Questions necessary for disposal of specified business: —that Clause be read a second time, 439. —that Clause stand part of the Bill, 22, &c. —that Schedule be Schedule to Bill, 23, &c. —remaining proceedings in Committee, 440. Chairman leaves Chair at specified hour, to report Bill, 440. Speaker puts Questions at specified hours (or after specified periods): On Consideration: —Questions already proposed from the Chair, 298, &c. —Questions on Amendments moved by a Minister, 299, &c. —Questions on all remaining Amendments moved by a Minister, 337. —Questions required to bring proceedings on Amendments relating to specified Clauses to a conclusion, 430. —Question on Motion made by a Minister for adding a new Clause, 337, &c. —remaining Questions necessary to dispose of business required to be concluded at specified hour, 299, &c. —Questions necessary to bring proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading to a conclusion, 472. On consideration of Lords Amendments: —that this House agrees with the Lords in their Amendment, 557, &c. —that this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment, 391, &c. —Amendments made to words restored to the Bill, 544, &c. —Questions necessary to dispose of business to be taken at specified hour, 544, &c. BILLS, PUBLIC—continued XVI. Bills Suspended: Order, That a Bill shall be reported from Standing Committee, so far as then amended, no later than a specified date, and that on the report of the Bill to the House further proceedings on the Bill shall be suspended until the next Session of Parliament, 518. XVII. Proceedings under Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949: Speaker certifies that the provisions of section 2 of the Parliament Act 1911, as amended by section 1 of the Parliament Act 1949, have been duly complied with, 76. XVIII. Miscellaneous: Orders, That, in respect of specified Bills, notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bills have been read a second time, 13, &c. Order, That at a future sitting, any Lords Message relating to a specified Bill may be considered, though opposed, at any hour, 434. Return relating to Public Bills for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 256. Read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 261. Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 190. C, 205. Reported, with Amendment, 273. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 307. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 405. (Cited as Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Broadcasting: Draft Broadcasting (Restrictions on the Holding of Licences) (Amendment) Order 1998, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 8. Reported, 16. Approved, 29. Draft Limit in Relation to Licences to Provide Radio Multiplex Services Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 247. Broadcasting (Religious Programming) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 436. Building Regulation Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 528. Bus Fuel Duty (Exemptions) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 190. Cancer Care Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 261.Care of Places of Worship Measure: Laid, 359. To be presented for Royal Assent (Queen's Consent having been signified), 410. (Cited as Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Cathedrals Measure: Laid in the last Session of Parliament. To be presented for Royal Assent, 396. (Cited as Cathedrals Measure 1999) Royal Assent, 410. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE Leaves Chair at Ten o'clock to report progress, etc., 82, &c. Being of the opinion that principle of Clause and any matters arising thereon has been adequately discussed in the course of debate on Amendments proposed thereto, puts forthwith the Question, pursuant to Standing Order (Debate on clause or schedule standing part), That the Clause stand part of the Bill; Question agreed to, 131. CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS [References to the Chairman of Ways and Means include the First and Second Deputy Chairman unless the context otherwise requires.] Chairman reports lists of Private Bills to originate in the House of Lords and House of Commons, 41. Chairman reports Resolution from Standing Orders Committee, 458. Chairman takes Chair as Deputy Speaker in Speaker's absence from day's sitting, pursuant to Standing Order, 413. Chairman issues Writs during Summer Adjournment on Speaker's behalf, pursuant to Recess Elections Act 1975, 492. Chairman's Reports relating to Provisional Orders (Scotland): Chairman's Reports relating to Special Procedure Orders: —that Petitions have been certified as Petitions of General Objection against an Order, 384. CHAIRMEN'S PANEL Members nominated by the Speaker to be the Chairmen's Panel during the Session: —two Members appointed whom the Speaker is to consult, if practicable, before certifying a Bill to be a Money Bill, 20. Return relating to Chairmen's Panel for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Cheques (Scotland) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 186. Certified by the Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland, 215. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 220. Children's Rights Commissioner Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 442. CHURCH OF ENGLAND: Measures Proceeded Upon, &c.:
* Queen's Consent having been signified. Cinemas and Films: Draft Films (Modification of the Definition of ‘British Film') Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 446. Reported, 458. Approved, 466. City of London (Ward Elections) Bill: To originate in the Commons, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Read the first time, 89. Read a second time and committed (at Seven o'clock), 145. Reported from Opposed Bill Committee, with Amendments and Special Report, 374. As amended, considered (at Seven o'clock); further consideration stood adjourned (it being after Ten o'clock), 443. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 540; Order for further consideration read and discharged, 542. Lords concur with Commons in their Message relating to suspension of proceedings, 550. City of Newcastle Upon Tyne Bill [Lords]: To originate in the Lords, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Lords communicate Resolution relating to suspension of proceedings, 550. Commons concur, 554. City of Stoke-on-Trent Tunstall Northern By-pass Local Government Act Compulsory Purchase Order 1997: Laid, 311. Report by Lord Chairman and Chairman of Ways and Means that they have certified petitions as Petitions of General Objection against Order, 384. City of Westminster Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords (suspended from Last Session), 16. Read the first time and second time and ordered to be committed, 26. Reported from Committee on Unopposed Bills, with Amendments, 185. As amended, considered, 209. Read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 227. To which the Lords agree, 232. (Cited as City of Westminster Act 1999) Royal Assent, 238. Civil Aviation: Draft Carriage by Air Acts (Implementation of Protocol No. 4 of Montreal, 1975) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 236. Reported, 243. Approved, 252. Draft Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) (Fifth Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 236. Reported, 243. Approved, 252. Draft Aeroplane Noise Regulations 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 278. Reported, 290. Approved, 300. Draft Stansted Airport Aircraft Movement Limit (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 412. Reported, 420. Approved, 425. Draft Aeroplane Noise (Amendment) Regulations 1999, allocated to Twelfth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Approved, 455. Civil Registration (Access to Records) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 523. CLERKS OF THE HOUSE I. Clerk of the House of Commons: Journal and Index to be printed under his direction, 2, &c. Lays papers upon the Table, 7, &c. II. Other Clerks: Clerk at the Table informs the House of the Speaker's absence, pursuant to leave given, 413. Clerk in Private Bill Office certifies that in respect of suspended Lords Private Bill Agents have deposited declaration, 14, 26. CLOSURE OF DEBATE I. Closure Claimed and Question Put: In House: On Question, That this House do now adjourn: —agreed to, 60. —negatived, 238. Opposition days: —on Question, That the original words stand part of the Question, 35, &c. CLOSURE OF DEBATE I—continued Private Members' Bills: On Question, That Bill be now read a second time: —agreed to, 172, &c. Private Business: On Question, That Bill be now read a second time: —agreed to, 145. On Question for Amendment on consideration: —(closure on proposal of Question), 443. —(closure on putting of Question), 443. Public Bills: On Question (after Second Reading), That Bill be referred to a specified Select Committee, 455. On Question for Amendment on consideration, 392. On Question, That Bill be now read the third time, 206. II. Questions Not Decided (Forty Members not Present): CLOSURE OF DEBATE II—continued In House: On Question, That this House do now adjourn, 269. III. Assent of Chair Withheld: In House: Private Members' Bills: —on Question, That Bill be read a second time, 241. IV. Miscellaneous: Return relating to Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time (including Programme Motions) for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar (Eriskay Causeway) Order: Report by the Lord Chairman and the Chairman of Ways and Means under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, That Provisional Order should be allowed to proceed, &c., 509. COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE I. Government Bills:
II. Private Members' Bills:
COMMITTEES, JOINT I. Appointed under Standing Orders Relating to Public Business: 1. Consolidation, &c., Bills: Lords communicate that they have appointed a Committee of twelve Lords to join with a Committee of this House as the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c. Bills; that they have ordered that the Committee have power to agree with the Commons in the appointment of a Chairman, &c., 356. 2. Statutory Instruments: Seven Lords appointed to join with Commons Committee, &c., 16. Members discharged; others added, 152. Reports from the Joint Committee: First, 19. Second, 34. Third, 54. Fourth, 68. Fifth, 83. Sixth, 93. Seventh, 106. Eighth, 118. Ninth, 135. Tenth, 143. Eleventh, 163. Twelfth, 209. Thirteenth, 231. Fourteenth, 251. Fifteenth, 273. Sixteenth, 286. Seventeenth, 301. Eighteenth, 315. Nineteenth, 329. Twentieth, 348. Twenty-first, 378. Twenty-second, 395. Twenty-third, 409. Twenty-fourth, 422. Twenty-fifth, 442. Twenty-sixth, 464. Twenty-seventh, 511. Twenty-eighth, 527. Twenty-ninth, 541. Thirtieth, 569. Reports from the Select Committee: First, 329. Special Reports: First, 286. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed: —Joint Committee, 575. —Select Committee, 575. II. Other Joint Committees: Parliamentary Privilege: Select Committee of six Members appointed (in accordance with the Resolution of 9th July 1997) to join with a Committee to be appointed by the Lords, as the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, to review parliamentary privilege and make recommendations thereon, 10; nominated, 11; Lords appointed, &c., 27; Lords propose time and place of meeting, 29; Commons concur, 29. Report, 250. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 250. Financial Services and Markets: COMMITTEES, JOINT II—continued Resolution, That it is expedient that a Joint Committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to report on the consultative document on the draft Financial Services and Markets Bill presented by Her Majesty's Command on 21st December 1998 and any further draft of the bill which may be laid upon the Table of both Houses by a Minister of the Crown and to report by 30th April 1999, 142. Lords concur, 151. Select Committee of eight Members appointed; three to be the quorum; power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to report from time to time, to appoint specialist advisers, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, and to communicate to any Select Committee appointed by either House its evidence and any documents of common interest, 155. Instruction, That the Committee should report by a specified date, 155. Lords have appointed a Committee, and propose time and place of meeting, 159. Commons concur, 159. Instruction, That the Committee should report by a further specified date on specified parts of the draft bill in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights, 284. Lords concur, 287. First Report, 286. Second Report, 360. Minutes of evidence to be printed, 335. Draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill: Resolution, That it is expedient that a Joint Committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider the draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill published in the Command Paper entitled Local Headship, Local Choice (Cm. 4298), and that the Committee should report by specified date, 341. Lords concur, 342. Select Committee of eight Members appointed; three to be the quorum; power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to report from time to time, to appoint specialist advisers, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, and to communicate to any Select Committee appointed by either House its evidence and any documents of common interest, and to report by specified date, 352. Lords appointed, &c., 356 Commons agree with Lords as to time and place of meeting, 361. Member discharged; another added, 362. Minutes of evidence on particular days to be printed, 385, &c. COMMITTEES, SELECT I.1—continued III. Miscellaneous: Report, Minutes of Evidence, &c., printed pursuant to Standing Order (Select committees (adjournment of the House)), 360. Further Report, 491. COMMITTEES, SELECT I. Appointed under Standing Orders Relating to Public Business: 1. Domestic Committees: Accommodation and Works: Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Administration: Reports: First [Proposal to Re-open the Line of Route during the Summer Adjournment], 272. Second [Record Copies of Acts], 377. Memorandum reported, 118. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Catering: Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Information: Member discharged and another added, 47. Reports: First [Supply of Members' Information Technology, Equipment, Software and Associated Services], 31. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. 2. Select Committees related to Government Departments: Agriculture: Reports: First [MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1998 and the Comprehensive Spending Review], 62. Second [CAP Reform: Rural Development], 68. Third [The UK Pig Industry], 93. Fourth [The UK Pig Industry: The Government's Response], 250. Fifth [Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis], 272. Sixth [Genetically Modified Organisms], 364. Seventh [Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations], 394. Eighth [Sea Fishing], 491. Ninth [MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1999], 526. Special Reports: First [Government Observations on First Report], 185. Second [The Committee's Work, Session 1997-98], 185. Third [Government Reply to Second Report], 314. Fourth [Government Response to Fourth Report], 394. COMMITTEES, SELECT I.2—continued Fifth [Government Response to Fifth Report], 412 Sixth [Government Response to Seventh Report], 510 Seventh [Government Response to Eighth Report], 526. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 26, &c. Memoranda reported, 9, &c. Culture, Media and Sport: Member discharged; another added, 536. Reports: First [The Heritage Lottery Fund], 100. Second [The Preservation of HMS Cavalier], 100. Third [Back to the Dome], 240. Fourth [Staging International Sporting Events], 321. Fifth [The Performing Rights Society and the Abolition of the Classical Music Subsidy], 475. Sixth [The Department of Culture, Media and Sport and its Quangos], 475. Special Reports: First [Government Response to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on The Future of News at Ten], 100. Second [Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on The Eyre Review and the Royal Opera House], 100. Third [BBC Response to Eighth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Report and Accounts of the BBC for 1997-98], 126. Fourth [Government and Heritage Lottery Fund Responses to First Report], 267. Fifth [Government Response to Second Report], 267. Sixth [Government Response to Sixth Report], 552. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Memoranda reported, 240. Defence: Member discharged; another added, 102. Reports: First [The Strategic Defence Review: Territorial Army Restructuring], 97. Second [The Appointment of the New Head of Defence Export Services], 237. Third [The Future of NATO: The Washington Summit], 255. Fourth [The Draft Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999 and the Draft International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designations and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1999], 278. Fifth [Security of Supply and the Future of Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton], 355. Sixth [The Reserves Call Out Order 1999 and Progress of Territorial Army Restructuring], 526. Seventh [The Strategic Defence Review: Defence Medical Services], 526 Eighth [Major Procurement Projects Survey: The Common New Generation Frigate], 548. Ninth [Defence Research], 548. Special Reports: First [Annual Report of the Committee for Session 1997-98], 150. Second [Government Observations on First Report], 290. Third [Government Observations on Third Report], 335. Fourth [Government Observations on Second Report], 364 Fifth [Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Control], 378.* Sixth [Government Observations on Fifth Report], 447. *Joint inquiry with Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees, 378. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 12, &c. Taken concurrently with three other Committees, 548. Memoranda reported, 548. Education and Employment: Reports: First [Active Labour Market Policies and their Delivery: Lessons from Australia], 83. Second [Part-time Working], 231. Third [Highly Able Children], 273. Fourth [The Work of OFSTED], 360. Fifth [Role of School Governors], 441 Sixth [The ONE Service Pilots], 463. Seventh [The Performance and Future Role of the Employment Service], 463. Eighth [Access for All?: A Survey of Post-16 Participation], 541. Ninth [Opportunities for Disabled People], 568. Special Reports: First [Government Response to Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Further Education], 19. Second [Government Response to Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on the Role of Headteachers], 83. Third [Government Response to Second Report], 408. Fourth [Government Response to Third Report], 408. Fifth [Government and OFSTED Response to Fourth Report], 487. Sixth [Government Response to Sixth Report], 526. Seventh [Government Response to Seventh Report], 526. Eighth [Government Response to Fifth Report], 526. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 19, &c. Taken before Sub-Committee, 9, &c. Concurrent meeting between Employment Sub-Committee and Social Security Committee, 311, &c. Memoranda reported, 162, &c. Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs : Reports: First [Railway Safety], 9. Second [Millennium Compliance of the Transport Industry], 59. Third [Future of National Air Traffic Services], 75. Fourth [The Countryside Agency], 86. Fifth [Regional Eurostar Services], 87. Sixth [Maritime and Coastguard Agency], 123. Seventh [Meeting with European Commission Officials to discuss Air Transport], 150. Eighth [Local Government Finance], 237. Ninth [Integrated Transport White Paper], 255. Tenth [Regional Development Agencies], 318. Eleventh [Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products], 335. Twelfth [Future of UK Shipping Industry], 355. Thirteenth [The Operation of the Landfill Tax], 427. Fourteenth [Aviation Safety], 447. Fifteenth [Departmental Annual Report 1999 and Expenditure Plans 1999–2002], 463. Sixteenth [Multilateral Environmental Agreements], 468. Seventeenth [Housing: PPG3], 468. Eighteenth [Tendered Bus Services], 491. Nineteenth [Young and Newly Qualified Drivers: Standards and Training], 531. Twentieth [Town and Country Parks], 531. Twenty-first [Railways Bill], 552. Special Reports: First [Health & Safety Commission and Executive Response to First Report], 237. Second [Government Response to Second Report], 264. Third [Government Response to Ninth Report], 436. Fourth [Government Response to Third Report], 491. Fifth [Government Response to Tenth Report], 531. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 41, &c. Taken before Sub-Committee, 9, &c. Memoranda to be printed, 83, &c. Memoranda laid before Sub-Committee to be printed, 348. Foreign Affairs: Reports: First [Foreign Policy and Human Rights], 46. Second [Sierra Leone], 110. Third [European Union Enlargement], 172. Fourth [Gibraltar], 366. Fifth [Foreign and Commonwealth Office Resources], 394. Sixth [South Caucasus and Central Asia], 463. Seventh [Kosovo: Interim Report], 463. Special Reports: First [Premature Disclosure of the Committee's Report on Sierra Leone], 162. Second [Premature Disclosure of First and Third Reports of Session 1998-99], 250. Third [Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Control], 378.* *Joint inquiry with Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 19, &c. Part thereof, 60, &c. Taken concurrently with three other Committees, 548. Memoranda reported, 46, &c. Health: Reports: First [Relationship between Health and Social Services], 28. Second [Primary Care Groups], 77. Third [Future NHS Staffing Requirements], 126. Fourth [The Long Term Care of the Elderly], 281. Fifth [The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare], 436. Sixth [Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and Outcomes in Medical Care], 533. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 12, &c. Home Affairs: Motion, That a Member be discharged and another added, opposed, 456. Reports: First [The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission], 231. Second [Freemasonry in Public Life], 335. Third [Accountability of the Security Service], 373. Fourth [Police Training and Recruitment], 404. Fifth [Drugs and Prisons], 568. Special Reports: First [Government Observations on Second Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Confidentiality of Police Settlements of Civil Claims], 34. Second [Government Reply to Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Electoral Law and Administration], 68. Third [Government Observations on First Report], 394. Fourth [Further Government Observations on Fourth Report], 526. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 34, &c. Memoranda reported, 335, &c. International Development: Reports: First [The Future of the EC Development Budget], 88. Second [The Provisions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]], 261. Third [Kosovo], 315. Fifth [ The Department for International Development: Departmental Report 1999], 463. Sixth [Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction], 510. Seventh [Women and Development], 568. Special Reports: First [Government Response to First Report], 273. Second [Committee's Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Control], 378.* Third [Government Response to Second Report], 408. Fourth [Government Response to Third Report], 491. Fifth [Government Response to Fifth Report], 517. Sixth [Government Response to Sixth Report], 517. *Joint inquiry with Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 12, &c. Part of, 442. Taken concurrently with three other Committees, 548. Northern Ireland Affairs: Member discharged; another added, 371. Reports: First [Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Special Educational Needs], 168. Third [Impact in Northern Ireland of Cross-Border Road Fuel Price Differentials], 468. Fourth [The Operation of the Fair Employment Act 1989: Ten Years On], 468. Special Reports: First [Government Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Prison Service in Northern Ireland], 168. Second [Further Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1997–98, on Electoral Malpractice in Northern Ireland], 355. Third [Government Response to First Report], 398. Fourth [Government Response to Third Report], 515. Fifth [Responses to Fourth Report], 515. Sixth [Reponses to Second Report], 573. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Memoranda reported, 185. Science and Technology: Reports: First [Scientific Advisory system: Genetically Modified Foods], 318. Second [The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts], 428. Third [The Scientific Advisory System: Mobile Phones and Health], 511. Fourth [The Regulation of the Biotechnology Industry], 531. Special Reports: First [Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Science and the Comprehensive Spending Review], 124. Second [Government Response to Second Report], 531. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 9, &c. Memoranda reported, 318, &c. Scottish Affairs: Member discharged; another added, 537. Reports: First [Inward/Outward Investment in Scotland], 402. Second [Tourism in Scotland], 469. Special Reports: First [Government Reply to Second Report from the Committee, 1997-98, on the Operation of Multi-layer Democracy], 215. Second [Committee Membership], 255. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 9, &c. Social Security: Reports: First [Tax and Benefits: Implementation of Tax Credits], 9. Second [Family Credit Fraud], 110. Third [Disability Living Allowance], 110. Fourth [Child Benefit], 168. Fifth [Pensions on Divorce: Parts III and IV of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill], 176. Sixth [War Pensions Agency Business Plan 1999-2000], 383. Seventh [The ONE Service Pilots], 463. Eighth [The Modernisation of Social Security Appeals], 515. Ninth [Social Security Implications of Parental Leave], 515. Tenth [The 1999 Child Support White Paper], 549. Special Reports: First [Government Response to Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Pensions on Divorce], 75. Second [Government Response to First Report], 90. Third [Unauthorised Receipt of Draft Report], 355. Fourth [Government Response to Sixth Report], 491. Fifth [Government Response to Seventh Report], 526. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 26, &c. Concurrent meeting with Employment-Sub-Committee of Education and Employment Committee, 311, &c. Memoranda reported, 9, &c. Part of Minutes of Evidence taken in previous Session of Parliament to be printed, 413. Trade and Industry: Member discharged; another added, 419. Reports: First [Vehicle Pricing], 26. Second [Strategic Export Controls], 26. Third [Multilateral Agreement on Investment], 54. Fourth [Draft Limited Liability Partnership Bill], 124. Fifth [Telephone Numbering], 124. Sixth [Ethical Trading], 180. Seventh [”Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce”: the Government's Proposals], 315. Eighth [ Trade Marks, Fakes and Consumers], 409. Ninth [The Impact on Industry of the Climate Change Levy], 452. Tenth [Electronic Commerce], 452. Eleventh [The Horizon Project for Automated Payment of Benefits through Post Offices], 511. Twelfth [The 1999 Post Office White Paper], 511. Thirteenth [Small Business and Enterprise], 511. Fourteenth [Draft Electronic Communications Bill], 527. Special Reports: First [The Future of the Post Office: Conduct of Inquiry], 54. Second [Government Observations on the Twelfth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98, on Industrial and Trade Relations with Central Europe], 106. Third [Government Observations on First Report], 124. Fourth [Government Observations on Second Report], 143. Fifth [Government Observations on Third Report], 180. Sixth [Government and Oftel Observations on Fifth Report], 273. Seventh [Government Observations on Sixth Report], 373. Eighth [Government Observations on Fourth Report], 373. Ninth [Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Control], 378.* Tenth [Government Observations on Eighth Report], 511. Eleventh [Government Observations on Ninth Report], 515. Twelfth [Responses from the Government and the Office of Telecommunications to Tenth Report], 515. *Joint inquiry with Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575 Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 19, &c. Taken concurrently with three other Committees, 548. Memoranda reported, 452. Treasury: Reports: First [The Office for National Statistics], 54. Second [The World Economy and the Pre-Budget Report], 68. Third [Financial Services Regulation], 106. Fourth [The 1999 Budget], 251. Fifth [The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England: Confirmation Hearings], 346. Sixth [Inland Revenue], 348. Seventh [ Public Service Agreements], 409. Eighth [The Monetary Policy Committee – Two Years On], 464. Ninth [Demutualisation], 475. Tenth [Valuation Office Agency], 527. Special Reports: First [The Mis-selling of Personal Pensions: Responses by the Government and the Financial Services Authority to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1997–98], 68. Second [Responses by the Government and the Bank of England to First Report], 143. Third [Government Response to Second Report], 219. Fourth [Government Response to Third Report], 231. Fifth [Government Response to Fourth Report], 378. Sixth [Government Response to Sixth Report], 464. Seventh [Government Response to Seventh Report], 527. Eighth [Responses by Government and Bank of England to Eighth Report], 527. Ninth [Government Response to Ninth Report], 541. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 12, &c. Taken before Sub-Committee, 12, &c. Memoranda reported, 106, &c. Welsh Affairs: Member discharged; another added, 80. Reports: First [The Closure of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum], 135. Second [Broadcasting in Wales and the National Assembly], 286. Third [Childcare in Wales], 348. Fourth [Health Issues in Wales], 409. Fifth [Paediatric Cardiac Services in Wales], 409 Sixth [Denbighshire County Council's Funding Crisis], 469. Special Reports: First [Government Response to Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1997–98, on Investment in Industry in Wales], 87. Second [Government Response to First Report], 348. Third [Government Response to Second Report], 469. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Memoranda reported, 135, &c. 3. Other Committees under Public Business Standing Orders: Broadcasting: Member discharged; another added, 407. Minutes of evidence on particular days to be printed, 413, &c. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Deregulation: (i) Reports: First [Draft Deregulation (Pipe-Lines) Order 1999], 34. Second [Draft Deregulation (Weights and Measures) Order 1999], 68 Third [Proposal for the Deregulation (New Year Licensing) Order 1999; Proposal for the Deregulation (Casinos) Order 1999], 378. Fourth [Draft Deregulation (Millennium Licensing) Order 1999 and Draft Deregulation (Casinos) order 1999], 441. (ii) Special Reports: First [The Future of the Deregulation Procedure], 272. (iii) Resolutions reported: (a) in respect of proposals for Orders: That draft Order in same terms as proposals should be laid: —Deregulation (New Year Licensing) Order 1999. —Deregulation (Casinos) Order 1999. COMMITTEES, SELECT I.3—continued (b) in respect of draft Orders: —Draft Deregulation (Pipe-Lines) Order 1999 [Order should be approved]*, 32. —Draft Deregulation (Weights and Measures) Order 1999 [Order should be approved]*, 66. —Draft Deregulation (Millennium Licensing) Order 1999 [Order should be approved]*, 436. —Draft Deregulation (Casinos) Order 1999 [Order should be approved]*, 436. * Resolution come to without a Division. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 208, &c. Environmental Audit: Member added, 77. Reports: First [Multilateral Agreement on Investment], 88. Second [Climate Change: Government Response and Follow-up], 118. Third [The Comprehensive Spending Review and Public Service Agreements], 126. Fourth [The Pre-Budget Report 1998], 135. Fifth [Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment: Co-ordination of Government Policy], 314. Sixth [The Greening Government Initiative 1999], 408. Seventh [Energy Efficiency], 463. Eighth [The Budget 1999], 463. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 19, &c. Memoranda reported, 517. European Scrutiny: Reports: First, 9. Second, 26. Third, 41. Fourth, 60. Fifth, 75. Sixth, 87. Seventh, 97. Eighth, 110. Ninth, 124. Tenth, 135. Eleventh, 150. Twelfth, 185. Thirteenth, 214. Fourteenth, 237. Fifteenth, 250. Sixteenth, 279. Seventeenth, 290. Eighteenth, 305. Nineteenth, 318. Twentieth, 335. Twenty-first, 355. Twenty-second, 382. Twenty-third, 398. Twenty-fourth, 413. Twenty-fifth, 428. Twenty-sixth, 447. Twenty-seventy, 468. Twenty-eighth, 515. Twenty-ninth, 531. Thirtieth, 549. Thirty-first, 573. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 26, &c. So much of Order as relates to printing of minutes of evidence, read and discharged, 301. Finance and services: Member discharged; another added, 414. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Liaison: Member discharged; another added, 383. Recommendations relating to consideration of Estimates, reported in previous Session, agreed with, 27. Recommendations relating to consideration of Estimates agreed with, 407. Speaker appoints specified Wednesdays as days for adjournment debates on select committee reports chosen by Liaison Committee, 31, 100. Public Accounts: Reports: First [Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 1997], 50. Second [NHS (Scotland) Summarised Accounts 1996–97], 50. Third [Obtaining a Benefit for Electricity Customers from the Flotation of the National Grid], 50. Fourth [HM Treasury: Treasury Controls], 81. Fifth [Department of Trade and Industry: The Sale of British Energy], 123. Sixth [Excess Votes], 130. Seventh [The Forensic Science Service], 205. Eighth [Ministry of Defence: Sales of the Royal Dockyards], 205. Ninth [Inland Revenue Special Compliance Office: Prevention of Corruption], 214. Tenth [Ministry of Defence: Identifying and Selling Surplus Property], 214. Eleventh [Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services: Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud in Family Practitioner Service Payments], 265. Twelfth [OFFER: Improving Energy Efficiency Financed by a Charge on Customers], 265. Thirteenth [The Final Accounts of Chessington Computer Centre, Recruitment and Assessment Services and the Occupational Health and Safety Agency], 265. Fourteenth [Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions: Grants to Voluntary Bodies], 265. Fifteenth [HM Customs and Excise: The Prevention of Drug Smuggling], 311. Sixteenth [National Savings: Developments in Financial Reporting], 345. Seventeenth [Ministry of Defence: Major Equipment Storage], 346. Eighteenth [Ministry of Defence: Appropriation Accounts 1997-98], 346. Nineteenth [BBC World Service], 373. Twentieth [Handgun Surrender and Compensation], 388. Twenty-first [Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils: 1997–98 Accounts (CCLRC)], 388. Twenty-second [Delays to the new National Insurance Recording System], 398. Twenty-third [Getting Better Value for Money from the Private Finance Initiative], 398. Twenty-fourth [DETR: The Flotation of Railtrack], 413. Twenty-fifth [MAFF: Arable Area Payments Scheme], 420. Twenty-sixth [Overseas Operations, Governance and Management at Southampton Institute], 420. Twenty-seventh [HM Customs and Excise: The Red Channel], 420. Twenty-eighth [Cost Over-runs, Funding Problems and Delays on Guy's Hospital Phase III Development], 420. Twenty-ninth [Financial Management and Control in the European Union], 428. Thirtieth [How the Utility Regulators are addressing the Year 2000 Problems in the Utilities], 428. Thirty-first [DETR and The Welsh Office: Sale of Residual loans to Housing Associations], 428. Thirty-second [Ministry of Defence: Modifying Defence Equipment], 487. Thirty-third [Managing Sickness Absence in the Prison Service], 487. Thirty-fourth [BSE: The Cost of a Crisis], 487. Thirty-fifth [Public Trust Office: Protecting the Financial Welfare of People with Mental Incapacity], 487. Thirty-sixth [The Millennium Threat], 487. Thirty-seventh [Investigations of Alleged Irregularities at Halton College], 487. Thirty-eighth [Inheritance Tax: A Progress Report], 487. Thirty-ninth [The NHS in Scotland; Making the Most of the Estate and Other Issues], 487. Fortieth [Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions: The Sale of Railfreight Distribution], 538. Forty-first [The PRIME Project: The Transfer of the Department of Social Security Estate to the Private Sector], 538. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 9, &c. Memoranda reported, 81, &c. Resolution relating to specified Reports from the Committee, 76. Public Administration: Reports: First [Annual Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration for 1997–98, 209. Second [Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1997–98], 286. Third [Freedom of Information Draft Bill], 510. Fourth [Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions], 511. Fifth [Freedom of Information: The Home Office Response], 569. Sixth [Quangos], 569. Special Reports: First [Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1997–98, on the Report of the Northern Ireland Ombudsman for 1997], 19. Second [Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1997–98, on The Government Information and Communication Service], 83. Third [Government Response to Second Report], 511. Fourth [Government Response to First Report], 511. Fifth [Government Response to Third Report], 527. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 19, &c. Standards and Privileges: Reports: First [Advocacy and Declaration], 135. Second [Complaints against Mr Geoffrey Robinson], 162. Third [Complaints against Mr Francis Maude], 180. Fourth [Complaint against Sir Edward Heath], 231. Fifth [Complaint against Mr Geoffrey Robinson (No. 2)], 250. Sixth [Complaint against Mr Edward Leigh], 261. Seventh [Complaint against Mrs Teresa Gorman], 335. Eighth [Premature Disclosure of Reports of the Foreign Affairs Committee], 409. Ninth [Complaints against Mr Peter Mandelson], 413. Tenth [Unauthorised Receipt of a Draft Report of the Social Security Committee], 467. Eleventh [Unauthorised Receipt of a Draft Report of the Social Security Committee], 487. Twelfth [Remunerated Employment as a Member of another Elected Body], 569. Thirteenth [Complaint against Dr Marjorie Mowlam], 569. Fourteenth [Complaint against Dr Jack Cunningham], 569. COMMITTEES, SELECT—continued Part of Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 335. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 575. II. Appointed under Standing Orders Relating to Private Business: Selection: Member discharged; another added, 27. Resolutions reported: —relating to changes in the composition of Standing Committees, 19. —relating to the tabling of Motions to alter the membership of Select Committees, 20. Reports relating to: —appointment of Two Members to be consulted, &c., by the Speaker on Money Bills, 20. —designation of Standing Committee C as the Standing Committee on which Government Bills are not to have precedence, 20. —nomination of the Committee on Unopposed Bills (Panel), 39. —nomination of Provisional Orders (Scotland) (Panel), 39. —nomination of the Standing Orders Committee, 39. —nomination of Members to serve on Standing Committees: —European Standing Committees A and B, 62. —European Standing Committee C, 123. —Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, 8, &c. —Standing Committees on Bills, 40, &c. —Second Reading Committee, 184. —Discharge of Members of Standing Committees and appointment of others, 11, &c. Orders, in the name of the Chairman or a Member of the Committee, on the Committee's behalf, relating to discharge of members of Select Committees and appointment of others, 14, &c. Standing Orders: Nominated by Committee of Selection, 39. Resolution, That dispensation from provisions of Standing Order (Petitions against private bills) ought to be granted in case of late Petition against Bill, 458. Unopposed Bills: Panel of Members appointed by the Committee of Selection, 39. COMMITTEES, SELECT III—continued III. Other Committees: Food Standards: Committee appointed and nominated (thirteen Members); power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, to appoint specialist advisers, and to communicate to any select committee of either House their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest, 114. Five to be the Quorum, 125. Instruction, That the Committee shall report by a specified date, 114. Report [Food Standards Draft Bill], 237. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 150, &c. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Modernisation of the House of Commons: Reports: First [The Parliamentary Calendar: Initial Proposals], 26. Second [Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall], 237. Third [Thursday Sittings], 447. Special Reports: First [Work of the Committee: Second Progress Report], 531. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 98, &c. COMMITTEES, SELECT III—continued Memoranda reported, 19. Procedure: Reports: First [Procedural Consequences of Devolution: Interim Report, 75. Second [Procedural Consequences of Devolution: Second Interim Report], 261. Third [Names Added to Early Day Motions], 335. Fourth [The Procedural Consequences of Devolution], 335. Fifth [Ministerial Statements on Fridays], 398. Sixth [Procedure for Debate on the Government's Expenditure Plans], 463. Special Reports: First [Government Response to Fourth Report], 510. Minutes of Proceedings to be printed, 574. Minutes of Evidence on particular days to be printed, 93, &c. Memoranda reported, 19, &c. IV. Reasons Committees (Lords Amendments Disagreed To) 1. Committees appointed:
2. Miscellaneous: Chairman appointed by Order, 391, &c. V. Miscellaneous: 1. Numbers of Members appointed: Five (Committee to draw up Reasons), 391 Thirteen (Committee on Food Standards), 114. 2. Quorum appointed: Three: —Committee to draw up Reasons, 391. Five: —Committee on Food Standards, 125. Standing Order (Select Committees related to government departments) modified for remainder of present Session of Parliament to reduce quorum of committees or sub-committees meeting concurrently to two, 352. 3. Powers or leave given: COMMITTEES, SELECT V—continued To send for person, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom, to appoint specialist advisers, and to communicate to any select committee of either House their evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest, 114. 4. Instructions: To report by a specified date, 114. To consider the provisions of a Government Bill and to report by a specified date, 455. 5. Nomination and discharge of Members: Members discharged; others added, 14, &c. Motion, to discharge Member and add another, opposed, 456. Select Committee nominated, 114. Resolution reported by Committee of Selection relating to Motions to alter the membership of Select Committees, 20. 6. Reports: [For Reports from Select Committees, see alphabetical entries relating to Committees above.] Government replies, &c., to Reports: —published by Her Majesty's Command, 9, &c. —published as Special Reports from Committees, 19, &c. Evidence, &c., reported: COMMITTEES, SELECT V.6—continued Minutes of Evidence taken: —on a particular day, 9, &c. —before Sub-Committee, 9, &c. Minutes of Evidence of concurrent meeting of a committee and a sub-committee of another committee reported and ordered to be printed, 311. —of concurrent meetings of four committees reported and ordered to be printed, 378. So much of Order as relates to printing of Minutes of Evidence, read and discharged, 301. Report, Minutes of Evidence, &c., printed pursuant to Standing Order (Select Committees (adjournment of the House)), 360, &c. 7. Returns: Return relating to Select Committees for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. COMMITTEES, STANDING: I. Government Bills Committed to Standing Committees:
COMMITTEES, STANDING—continued II. Private Members' Bills Committed to Standing Committees:
III. Second Reading Committees:
* Bill stood referred to Second Reading Committee, pursuant to Standing Order (Law Commission bills). IV. Special Standing Committees: 1. Bills committed to Special Standing Committees:
2. Miscellaneous Standing Order (Special Standing Committees) to have effect with modifications in relation to a specified Bill, 137. V. Scottish Grand Committee: 1. Orders Relating to Sittings of the Committee:
COMMITTEES, STANDING V—continued 2. Other Orders: Minutes of proceedings to be printed, 570.
VI. Welsh Grand Committee 1. Matters referred:
2. Miscellaneous: Two additional Members nominated by Committee of Selection, 25. Questions for oral answer to be taken at specified meeting, 105. VII. Northern Ireland Grand Committee: 1. Matters and Instruments referred:
2. Miscellaneous: Twenty-four additional Members nominated, 25. Minutes of proceedings ordered to be printed, 42, &c.
VIII. Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation: Instruments referred to Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, 8, &c. Instruments allocated by the Speaker to particular Standing Committee, 8, &c. Instruments referred to Standing Committees, 16, &c. COMMITTEES, STANDING—continued IX. European Standing Committees: [For later proceedings, see European Community Documents II.] 1. Documents, &c., and Resolutions reported, &c. following references to Standing Committees in previous Session:
2. Documents, &c. referred to European Standing Committees in current Session:
3. Miscellaneous: Reports by Committee of Selection, nominating Members of European Standing Committees A and B, 62. C, 123. Minutes of Proceedings of European Standing Committees A, B and C to be printed, 570. X. Miscellaneous: 1. Chairmen of Standing Committees: Members appointed Chairmen by the Speaker: —of Standing Committees on Bills, 40, &c. —of Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, 8, &c. —of European Standing Committees, 189, &c. —additional Chairmen, 189, &c. 2. Members of Standing Committees: Members nominated by Committee of Selection to serve on Standing Committees: —Standing Committees on Bills, 40, &c. —Second Reading Committees, 184. —Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, 8, &c. Members discharged and others appointed in substitution, 18, &c. Resolution reported by Committee of Selection relating to changes in membership of Standing Committees on Bills, 19. 3. Sittings: Leave given to Standing Committees on Bills to sit twice on first day of meeting, 73, &c. Order, That notwithstanding Sessional Order relating to Meetings of Standing Committees, Standing Committee on a Bill may meet at any hour, 282. 4. Instructions: To report a Bill to the House, so far as then amended, by a specified date (as part of a Suspension Order), 518. 5. Business Sub-Committees: Members nominated by Speaker: —Greater London Authority Bill (except specified Clauses and Schedules), 83. 7. Returns: Returns relating to Grand Committees for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 181. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 342. D, 363. Reported, with Amendments, 388. As amended, considered; further proceedings stood postponed (after Seven o'clock, there being private business set down); Bill further considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 444. To which the Lords agree, 469. (Cited as Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Money Resolution, 342. Community Protection (Landfill) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 256. Companies: Open-Ended Investment Companies (Investment Companies with Variable Capital) (Fees) Regulations 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 86. Reported, 93. Approved, 98. Companies (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 86. Reported, 93. Approved, 98. Draft Local Authority (Stocks and Bonds) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 264. Reported, 274. Approved, 280. Company and Business Names (Chamber of Commerce, Etc.) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 71. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 154. C, 158. Transferred to B, 162. Reported, without Amendment, 180. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 307. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 464. (Cited as Company and Business Names (Chamber of Commerce, Etc.) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Computer Millennium Non-Compliance (Contingency Plans) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 104. Concessionary Television Licences for Pensioners Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 361. Consolidated Fund Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 44. Read the second and third time, and passed, 52. Speaker's Certificate, 60. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 60. (Cited as Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1998) Royal Assent, 60. Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 217. Read the second and third time, and passed, 223. Speaker's Certificate, 231. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment. (Cited as Consolidated Fund Act 1999) Royal Assent, 238. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 434. Read the second and third time, and passed, 437. Speaker's Certificate, 447. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 448. (Cited as Appropriation Act 1999) Royal Assent, 450. Constitutional Law: Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Finance) Order 1999, approved, 125. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Appropriations) Order 1999, approved, 125. Draft National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 133. Reported, 140. Approved, 164. Draft National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 133. Reported, 140. Approved, 165. Draft National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 134. Reported, 144. Approved, 164. Draft Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 156. Approved, 165. Draft Scottish Parliament (Disqualification) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 156. Approved, 165. Draft Scottish Parliament (First Ordinary General Election and First Meeting) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 156. Approved, 165. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 210. Approved, 224. Draft Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 212. Reported, 227. Approved, 235. Draft Scottish Parliament (Assistance for Registered Political Parties) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 370. Approved, 377. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Excisable in or as regards Scotland) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Adaptation of Functions, etc) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Border Rivers) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 364. Reported, 374. Approved, 380. Contracting Out: Draft Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Highway Functions) Order 1999, allocated to Twelfth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 382. Reported, 395. Approved, 400. Draft Contracting Out (Jury Summoning Functions) Order 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 397. Reported, 414. Approved, 418. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed; stood referred to a Second Reading Committee, pursuant to Standing Order (Law Commission Bills), 370. Report recommending Second Reading, 404. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 418. D, 426. Reported, without Amendment, 448. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 535. To which the Lords agree, 570. (Cited as Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Control of Fireworks Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 312. Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 512 Control of Residential Hedgerows Bill: Presented and read the first time, 186. Withdrawn, 442. Country Lanes and Villages Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 316. Countryside Agency: Draft Development Commission (Transfer of Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 122. Reported, 127. Approved, 132. Criminal Cases Review (Insanity) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 279. Read a second time and committed to a Committee of the Whole House; considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment, 323. Read the third time, and passed, without Amendment, 476. (Cited as Criminal Cases Review (Insanity) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Criminal Injuries Compensation: Draft of Alterations to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 255. Reported, 274. Approved, 280. Criminal Law (Scotland): Draft Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (Application to Summary Proceedings) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 228. Approved, 235. Crown Prerogatives (Parliamentary Control) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 163. Motion for Second Reading; Queen's Consent (Prerogative) signified; objection taken to further proceeding, 476. Customs And Excise: Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 397. Reported, 405. Approved, 410. Cyclists' Helmets Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 538. Data Protection: Motion in the name of Mr Secretary Straw relating to the Salary of the Data Protection Registrar, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation [pursuant to Order, 450], 467. Reported, 481. Approved, 489.DEBATE Debates Adjourned and Debates Resumed: 1. Addresses: Address of Thanks (Queen's Speech): —ordered to be adjourned, 4. —resumed at subsequent sitting and ordered to be adjourned, 6 &c. —resumed at subsequent sitting and stood adjourned, 10, &c. —resumed at subsequent sitting, 16. 2. Adjournment of the House: Debate resumed after Question on closure negatived, 238. DEBATE—continued 3. Bills, Private: Orders for suspension of proceedings: —stood adjourned (objection being taken to further proceeding), 532. —resumed, 540. 4. Bills, Public: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading: —ordered to be adjourned, 47. —stood adjourned (it being Ten o'clock), 101. —resumed at subsequent sitting, 50 &c. Second Reading of new Clause on consideration: —stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock), 229, &c. —stood adjourned (at specified hour, pursuant to Allocation of Time Orders), 377. —resumed at same sitting, 229. Second Readings of Private Members' Bills: —stood adjourned, 154, &c. —resumed, and stood adjourned, 367. —again resumed, and stood adjourned, 476. Consideration: —on Question, That an Amendment be made, stood adjourned (it being half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 322, 367. —on Question, That Clause be read a second time (it being Ten o'clock), 325; resumed at same sitting, 326. Lords amendments: —on Question, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment, stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock); resumed at same sitting, 570. 5. Ways and Means: Motion relating to Amendment of the Law: —ordered to be adjourned, 177. —resumed at a subsequent sitting, 192. 6. Opposition Days: Question proposed, That the original words stand part of the Question: —stood adjourned, 400. II. Miscellaneous: Debates stood adjourned, it being: —Ten o'clock, 10 &c. —Seven o'clock (on a Thursday), 400. —half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday), 154, &c. —a specified hour (pursuant to Allocation of Time Order), 377. Debates ordered to be adjourned, 4 &c. Debates ordered to be resumed on a future day, 10, &c. Debates to be resumed on a future day, 4 &c. Defence: Draft International Headquarters and Defence Organisations (Designation and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 290. Reported, 328. Approved, 333. DEFENCE—continued Draft Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 290. Reported, 328. Approved, 334. DEFENCE—continued Draft Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 334. Reported, 356. Approved, 370. DELEGATED LEGISLATION, &c I. Resolutions to Approve Statutory Instruments and Other Delegated Legislation
II. Addresses for Statutory Instruments to be Made
III. Questions, That Statutory Instruments be Revoked, Negatived Regulations: Income Tax, 156. IV. Statutory Instruments Referred to Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation
V. Miscellaneous Delegated legislation allocated by the Speaker to particular Standing Committees, 8, &c. Delegated legislation referred to Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, 47, &c. Delegated legislation reported from Standing Committees, 16, &c. Delegated legislation approved, 29, &c. —after Question put: —forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), 29, &c. —forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Consideration of draft deregulation orders), 82, &c. —at Seven o'clock (several Questions successively), pursuant to Order, 111. —after three hours, pursuant to Order, 387. Order, providing that if a Statutory Instrument relating to a specified subject be laid before the House on a specified day, a Minister of the Crown may, notwithstanding the practice of the House, make without notice a Motion for the approval of the said Instrument, 172. Order, That a specified Motion shall be treated as if it related to an Instrument subject to the provisions of Standing Order (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) in respect of which notice has been given that the Instrument be approved, 450. Return relating to Delegated Legislation and Deregulation Orders for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Deregulation: Draft Orders approved, 82, &c. [For subjects see Table in Delegated Legislation I.] Digital Television Broadcasting Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 274. Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 233. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 279. F, 283. Reported, with Amendments, 336. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 410. To which the Lords agree, 454. (Cited as Disability Rights Commission Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Money Resolution, 279. DIVISIONS It appearing on the report of a Division that fewer than forty Members had taken part in the Division, the Speaker declared that the Question was not decided in the Affirmative, 269. It appearing on the report of a Division that fewer than forty Members had taken part, the Deputy Speaker declared that the Question was not decided, and the business under consideration stood out until the next sitting of the House, 340. The House proceeded to a Division, but no Member being willing to act as Teller for the Noes, the Deputy Speaker declared that the Ayes had it, 433, &c. Ecclesiastical Committee: See Church of England. Education: Draft Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1998, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 40. Reported, 50. Approved, 57. Draft Education (Student Support) Regulations 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 122. Reported, 127. Approved, 132. School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Proposals under section 211 of the Education Act 1996) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1998, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 132. Fourth, 148. Reported, 180. Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Grant) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 132. Sixth, 149. Reported, 176. Education (Relevant Areas for Consultation on Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 161. Sixth, 167. Reported, 215. Education (Objections to Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 161. Sixth, 167. Reported, 215. EDUCATION—continued Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 161. Sixth, 167. Reported, 215. Education (School Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 161. Sixth, 167. Reported, 215. Education (Aptitude for Particular Subjects) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 161. Sixth, 167. Reported, 215. Draft General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) Regulations 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 255. Reported, 265. Approved, 271. Draft General Teaching Council for England (Constitution) Regulations 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 255. Reported, 265. Approved, 271. Draft Code of Practice on School Admissions, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 263.Tenth, 278. Reported, 287. Education (Budget Statements and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 288. Fifth, 304. Reported, 311. EDUCATION—continued Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) (England) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 288. Seventh, 305. Reported, 315. Education (School Organisation Committees) (England) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 288. Fourth, 304. Reported, 311. Education (School Organisation Plans) (England) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 288. Fourth, 304. Reported, 311. Education (Transition to New Framework) (School Organisation Proposals) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 288. Fourth, 304. Reported, 311. Education (Head Teachers) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 451. Fourth, 467. Reported, 488. Education (Scotland): Draft Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 122. Reported, 127. Approved, 132. ELECTIONS I. Writs Issued:
* Issued by Chairman of Ways and Means during the Summer Adjournment on behalf of the Speaker, pursuant to the Recess Elections Act 1975. II. Motion for Writ: Motion for a new Writ; and the Motion being opposed, further proceeding stood postponed, 243. Resumed; Question amended by leaving out from the word 'That' to the end of the Question and adding the words 'this House do pass to the Orders of the day'; and, as amended, agreed to (Question superseded), 243. III. Miscellaneous: Sessional Order relating to double returns, 1 . Sessional Resolution relating to voting by Peers, 1. Sessional Resolution relating to bribery, 1. Writs issued during Adjournment, 592. Employment and Training: Draft Industrial Training Levy (Construction Board) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 59. Reported, 66. Approved, 72. Draft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Board) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 59. Reported, 66. Approved, 72. Employment Relations Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 94. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 117. E, 122. Reported, with Amendments, 227. As amended, considered; further consideration ordered to be adjourned, 246. Further considered; read the third time, and passed, 251. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 448. Lords Amendments considered, some agreed to, one disagreed to; further proceedings stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock), 466. Lords Amendments further considered [allotted day]; Lords Amendments agreed to, one with an Amendment; Committee appointed to draw up Reasons; Reasons reported and agreed to, 482. Lords do not insist on their Amendment to which Commons have disagreed, but propose Amendment in lieu thereof; and agree to Commons Amendment to Lords Amendment, 484. Lords Message considered; Lords Amendment in lieu agreed to, 484. (Cited as Employment Relations Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Money Resolution, 117. Employment Rights (International Obligations) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 464. Empty Homes Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 423. Energy Conservation (Housing) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 78. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 294. Energy Efficiency Bill: Presented and read the first time, 78. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 154. Energy Saving Materials (Vat Relief) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 215. Equal Access (Public and Private Buildings) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the third time, 395. ESTIMATES I. Reports From Liaison Committee: Relating to consideration of Estimates pursuant to Standing Order (Liaison Committee), 398. —Reports agreed with, 407. —Report made in previous Session agreed with, 27. II. Miscellaneous: III. Proceedings Pursuant to Standing Order (Consideration of Estimates):
ESTIMATES—continued
IV. Proceedings Pursuant to Standing Order (Questions on Voting of Estimates, &c.):
European Common Fisheries Policy (Referendum) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 192. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS/ EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS [For European Standing Committees, see Committees, Standing IX.] I. Questions for Resolutions Agreed to:
II. Questions for Resolutions Put Forthwith, Pursuant to Standing Order (European Standing Committees), and Agreed To:
III. Miscellaneous: Return relating to European Legislation, &c., for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. European Communities: Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 97. Reported, 104. Approved, 109. Draft European Communities (Immunities and Privileges of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 97. Reported, 104. Approved, 109. Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 134. Reported, 151. Approved, 157. Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Framework Agreement for Trade and Co-operation between the European Community and its Member States and the Republic of Korea) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 304. Reported, 315. Approved, 333. Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Economic Partnership, Political Co-ordination and Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the United Mexican States) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 304. Reported, 315. Approved, 333. European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, Section 5: Order, That, for the purposes of their approval under section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, the Financial Statement and Budget Report 1999–2000 and the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report 1999–2000 shall be treated as if they were instruments subject to the provisions of Standing Order (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), 280. Allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 289. Reported, 315. Resolution, 333. European Parliamentary Elections Bill: Presented and read the first time, 12. Read a second time; committed to a Committee of the whole House; considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the third time, and passed, 21. The Speaker's Certificate under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, 76. [See BILLS, PUBLIC, XVII.] (Cited as European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999) Royal Assent, 76. Allocation of Time Order, 20. Money Resolution, 22. European Parliamentary Elections (Gibraltar) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 279. Read the first time, 316. EXAMINERS I. Bills Referred to the Examiners: Private Bills: Referred after Second Reading, 104. Brought from the Lords and referred after First Reading, 136, &c. II. Reports from the Examiners: Private Bills: In the case of Petitions for Bills: —Standing Orders complied with, 63. In the case of Lords Bills referred after First Reading: —No Standing Order not previously inquired into applicable thereto, 151. In the case of Bills referred after Second Reading: Family Law: Draft Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 212. Reported, 222. Approved, 235. Draft Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 212. Reported, 222. Approved, 235. Finance Act 1998, Section 155: Resolution, 36. Finance Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 204. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time, and committed in part to a Committee of the whole House and in part to a Standing Committee, 270. Allocated (except specified Clauses), D, 281. Transferred to B, 283. Considered in Committee; progress reported, 284. Again considered in Committee; specified Clauses reported, without Amendment, 288. Bill, except specified Clauses, reported from Standing Committee B, with Amendments, 388. Not amended in the Committee and as amended in the Standing Committee, considered; further consideration ordered to be adjourned, 418. Further considered; read the third time, and passed, 420. Speaker's certificate, 428. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 475. (Cited as Finance Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Order, That Standing Committee on Bill (except specified Clauses) has leave to sit twice on first day of meeting, 288. Order, That more than one stage may be taken at any one sitting, 410. Financial Services: Draft Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Exemptions) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 446. Draft Order withdrawn, 462. Draft Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Exemption) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 514. Reported, 528. Approved, 536. Financial Services and Markets Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 383. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 403. A, 412. Reported, as so far amended, pursuant to Order, 563. Suspension Order, 518. Money Resolution, 403. Ways and Means Resolution, 403. Fire Precautions: Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 451. Sixth, 530. Reported, 550. Food: Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 450. Sixth, 468. Reported, 488. Food Standards Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 365. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 387. B, 397. Reported, with Amendments, 448. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 472. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 542. Lords Amendments agreed to, 560. (Cited as Food Standards Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Football (Offences and Disorder) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 245. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 267. C, 283. Reported, with Amendments, 301. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 366. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 481. (Cited as Football (Offences and Disorder) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Money Resolution, 292. Football Regulator Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 301. Freedom of Tax Information Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 270. Fuel Poverty and Energy Conservation Bill: Presented and read the first time, 71. Order for Second Reading read and discharged; Bill withdrawn, 312. Fuel Safety Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 140. Funeral Parlours (Planning) (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 488. Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 144. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 172. C, 189. Transferred to B, 208. Reported, with Amendments, 261. As amended, considered; Debate on Question, That an Amendment be made, stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 332. Debate resumed, and again stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 367. Debate again resumed, and again stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 476. Money Resolution, 224. Genetically Modified Crops Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 458. Genetically Modified Food and Producer Liability Bill: Presented and read the first time, 399. Government Trading Funds: Draft Forensic Science Service Trading Fund Order 1998, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 8. Reported, 27. Approved, 29. Draft National Health Service Estate Management and Health Building Agency Trading Fund Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 134. Reported, 144. Approved, 157. Draft Ordnance Survey Trading Fund Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 209. Approved, 224. Greater London Authority Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 20. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment moved; Debate ordered to be adjourned, 47. Debate resumed; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time, and committed in part to a Committee of the whole House and in part to a Standing Committee, 50. Allocated (except specified Clauses and Schedules) To Standing Committee A, 59. Specified Clauses and Schedules considered in Committee; progress reported, 82. Again considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment, 85. Bill, except specified Clauses and Schedules, reported from Standing Committee, with Amendments, 245. Not amended in the Committee and as amended in the Standing Committee, considered [1st allotted day], 298. Again considered [2nd allotted day]; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, 303. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 537. Lords Amendments considered; some agreed to (some with special entries); others disagreed to; further consideration stood adjourned (at Seven o'clock (on a Thursday)), 551. Lords Amendments further considered; some agreed to (some with special entries); some amended and agreed to; some consequential Amendments agreed to; one Amendment disagreed to, 556. Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 558. Reasons reported and agreed to, 559. Lords do not insist on certain of their Amendments to which the Commons have disagreed; do not insist on a further such Amendment and agree to a Commons Amendment in lieu thereof; agree to Commons Amendments to their remaining Amendments; and agree to Commons consequential Amendments, 569. (Cited as Greater London Authority Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Order, That when the provisions of the Bill considered, respectively, by the Committee of the whole House and by Standing Committee have been reported to the House, the Bill be proceeded with as if the Bill had been reported as a whole to the House from the Standing Committee, 51. Programme Order, 73. Business Sub-Committee nominated, 83. Programme (No. 2) Order, 295. Supplemental Allocation of Time, 554. Hallmark: Hallmarking (Hallmarking Act Amendment) Regulations 1998, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 95. Fifth, 110. Reported, 118. Hare Coursing Bill: Presented and read the first time, 159. HEALTH BILL [Lords]—continued Health Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 243. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 256. A, 263. Reported, with Amendments and changed long title, 346. As amended, considered; Debate on Question, That (new) Clause be read a second time, stood adjourned (at Ten o'clock), 370. Debate resumed; Bill further considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 376. To which the Lords agree, 383. (Cited as Health Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Allocation of Time Order, 374. Health Care and Energy Efficiency Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 281. Hedges (Control) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 71. HFC Bank Bill: To originate in the Commons, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Read the first time, 89. Read a second time and referred to the Examiners, 104. Examiner's Report, Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with; Bill committed, 124. Reported from Committee on Unopposed Bills, with Amendments and Preamble amended, 238. As amended, considered, 269. Read the third time, and passed, 284. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 399. (Cited as HFC Bank Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Holocaust Remembrance Day Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 410. HOUSE I. House Adjourns: House resolves to adjourn now, 4, &c. House adjourned by the Speaker without Question put, Motion for the Adjournment having been made: —at or after Ten o'clock, 11, &c. —at or after Seven o'clock (on a Thursday), pursuant to Sessional Order, 170, &c. —at or after half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday), 386, &c. House adjourns: —till to-morrow, 4, &c. —till this day, 23, &c. —from Friday till Monday, 13, &c. —from Thursday till Monday, 27, &c. [See also III. Periodic Adjournments below.] II. Motions for the Adjournment Generally: Lapse: —at Ten o'clock, 4, &c. —at Two o'clock (on a Wednesday), 6 &c. —at Seven o'clock (on a Thursday, pursuant to Sessional Order), 77, &c. —at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday), 385. HOUSE—continued Withdrawn, 174. Negatived following closure, 60. Motions for the Adjournment on specified subjects, 27, &c. [See Adjournment Debates on Specified Subjects.] III. Periodic Adjournments: House resolves at its rising on a future day to adjourn until a specified day, 33, 101, 191, 276, 297, 416. —Resolution amended, 341. Christmas Adjournment: House adjourns from Thursday 17th December to Monday 11th January, 61. February Adjournment: House adjourns from Tuesday 16th February to Monday 22nd February, 133. Easter Adjournment: House adjourns from Wednesday 31st March to Tuesday 13th April, 253. May Adjournment: House adjourns from Friday 30th April to Tuesday 4th May, 297. Whitsun Adjournment: House adjourns from Wednesday 26th May to Tuesday 8th June, 353. Summer Adjournment: House adjourns from Tuesday 27th July to Tuesday 19th October, 489. IV. Sittings of the House: House meets: —at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock (Queen's Speech), 1. —at half-past Eleven o'clock (Prorogation), 574. —at half-past Two o'clock, 10, &c. —at half-past Nine o'clock (on a Wednesday), 6, &c. —at half-past Nine o'clock (on a Friday), 12, &c. —at half-past Eleven o'clock (on a Thursday, pursuant to Sessional Order), 77 &c. House resolves not to sit on ten specified Fridays, 11. Order, That at this day's sitting — (i) the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Messages from the Lords shall have been received; and (ii) if the House has completed its consideration of any Messages received from the Lords and the Lords have adjourned their sitting, the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put, 575. Order, That at a future sitting, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until she shall have notified Royal Assent, 33, 191, 297, 416, 434, 481. —Order amended (to change specified date), 341. Order, That at a future sitting, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any message from the Lords, relating to a specified Bill, has been received, 534. —Sitting accordingly suspended until Message received, 537. V. Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall: Order, That in the next Session of Parliament the Standing Orders and practice of the House shall have effect subject to specified modifications relating to sittings in Westminster Hall, 343. HOUSE VI—continued Order, That there shall be no sittings in Westminster Hall under the terms of the Order [343] until a specified date, 519. VI. Business of the House: [For Orders relating to proceedings on Bills, See Bills, Public, XV.] 1. Orders relating to precedence of business: Order modifying Standing Order (Arrangement of public business) for the Session so as to provide for Private Members' Bills to have precedence on thirteen Fridays, and specifying those Fridays, &c., 11. Order, That at a future sitting part of a Standing Order (Consideration of estimates) shall not apply, insofar as a specified Motion shall stand as first business, 430. 2. Orders, under Standing Order (Exempted business), enabling specified business [at this day's sitting] to be proceeded with, though opposed: [Agreed to at Ten o'clock] Until any hour: —Government Bills, 120 &c. —Lords Amendments, 570. —Consideration of any Messages from the Lords relating to a specified Bill, 570. —Government Motion referring Bill to a Select Committee, 455. —Government Motions relating to Business of the House, 570. [Agreed to at a previous Sitting (in a wider Motion):] Until any hour: —Government Motions, 52. —any Lords Message relating to a specified Bill, 434. Motion may be entered upon and proceeded with, though opposed, after Ten o'clock: 347, &c. Motion for the adjournment of the House in the name of the Prime Minister may be proceeded with, though opposed, after half-past two o'clock (on a Friday) (for up to five hours from commencement of proceedings), 434. 3. Orders providing for Questions to be put at a specified hour or at the end of a specified period: [See also 4 below for such orders in relation to Delegated Legislation and European Community/Union Documents] Government Motions: HOUSE VI.3—continued That, at a future sitting, the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on specified Motions: —not later than one and a half hours after commencement (Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties), 347. —not later than two hours after commencement (Line of Route), 347. —not later than three hours after commencement (Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall), 341. —not later than Seven o'clock, 44. —at Eight o'clock, or four hours after commencement, whichever is later (Motions relating to Modernisation of the House, Sittings of the House and Standing Committees), 52. —not later than Ten o'clock (seven Motions relating to practice and procedure of the House), 516. Questions including Questions on any Amendments which she may have selected, which may be moved at specified hour, 52, &c. 4. Orders providing for Questions to be put at a specified hour or at the end of a specified period in relation to proceedings on Delegated Legislation, European Community/Union Documents, or other proceedings pursuant to Act: That, at a future sitting, the Speaker shall put the Questions on Specified Motions not later than at a specified hour: —one and a half hours after the start of proceedings on the first of several Motions, 114. —three hours after the start of proceedings, 385. —Four o'clock, 101, &c. —Seven o'clock, 89, &c. —Ten o'clock, 44. —half-past Eleven o'clock, or one and a half hours after commencement, whichever is earlier, 152. 5. Order providing for proceedings on a specified Motion to continue for a specified period: —up to five hours (Motion for Adjournment in name of Prime Minister), 434. 6. Orders disapplying Standing Order: —(Proceedings under an Act or on European Union Documents), 44. —(Wednesday sittings), part of, 102. 7. Miscellaneous: Orders providing that if a Statutory Instrument relating to a specified subject be laid before the House on a specified day, a Minister of the Crown may, notwithstanding the practice of the House, make without notice a Motion for the approval of the said Instrument, 172, 414. VII. Miscellaneous: House attends Her Majesty in the House of Peers at the opening of the Session, 1. House attends the Lords Commissioners in the House of Peers for prorogation of Parliament, 575. Return relating to Business of the House for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. Return relating to Sittings of the House for Session 1997–98: —ordered, 16. —made, 90. House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 379. House of Lords Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 81. Motion for Second Reading; Queen's Consent and Prince of Wales's Consent signified; Reasoned Amendment moved; Debate stood adjourned, 101. Debate resumed; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 105. Considered in Committee; Progress reported, 127. Again considered in Committee; Progress reported, 131. Again considered in Committee; Progress reported, 163. Again considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment, 169. Read the third time, and passed, 206. Agreed by the Lords, with Amendments, 528. Lords Amendments considered; some agreed to and some disagreed to; Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 570. Reasons reported and agreed to, 571. Lords do not insist on Amendments disagreed to, 575. (Cited as House of Lords Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Housing: Draft Government of Wales Act 1998 (Housing) (Amendments) Order 1998, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 25. Reported, 42. Approved, 47. Housing (Scotland): Draft Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1999, approved, 125. Immigration and Asylum Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 116. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Special Standing Committee, 136. Reported, with Amendments, 328. As Amended, considered; Debate on Question, That (new) Clause be read a second time, stood adjourned (at midnight, pursuant to Allocation of Time Orders), 377. Debate resumed; Bill further considered; read the third time, and passed, 380. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 542. Lords Amendments considered; some agreed to (some with special entries), some amended and agreed to; one disagreed to; Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 567. Reasons reported and agreed to, 567. Lords do not insist on their Amendment to which Commons have disagreed; and agree to Commons Amendment to their remaining Amendment, 570. (Cited as Immigration and Asylum Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Standing Order (Special Standing Committees) modified in relation to the Bill, 137. Money Resolution, 136. Imperial College Bill: To originate in the Commons, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Read the first time, 89. Read a second time and committed, 104. Reported from Committee on Unopposed Bills, without Amendment, 206. Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, 270. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 387. (Cited as Imperial College Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. INCOME TAX—continued Income Tax: Draft Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Ireland) Order 1998, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 8. Reported, 20. Humble Address, seeking Order to be made in form of draft, 29. Queen's Answer, 54. Corporation Tax (Instalment Payments) Regulations 1998, Motion for revocation; Question negatived, 156. Draft Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Kuwait) Order 1999, allocated to Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 334. Reported, 378. Humble Address, seeking Order to be made in form of draft, 387. Queen's Answer, 442. Industrial Organisation and Development: Draft Potato Industry Development Council (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Twelfth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 278. Reported, 311. Approved, 317. Insolvency Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 107. INSTRUCTIONS I. To Reasons Committees: To withdraw immediately, 391, &c. II. To Select Committees: To report by a specified date, 114. To consider the provisions of a Government Bill referred to it and to report by a specified date, 455. III. To Joint Committees (agreed concurrently with the Lords): To report by a further specified date on specified parts of a draft bill in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights, 284. Lords concur, 287. IV. To Standing Committees: To report a Bill to the House, so far as then amended, by a specified date (as part of a Suspension Order), 518. Insurance Brokers Registration Council: Draft Insurance Brokers (Registration) Act 1977 (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 514. Reported, 532. Approved, 536. INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES—continued International Immunities and Privileges: Draft Diplomatic Privileges (British Nationals) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 123. Reported, 130. Approved, 137. Draft International Mobile Satellite Organisation (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 228. Approved, 235. Draft International Copper Study Group (Legal Capacities) Order 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Reported, 448. Approved, 455. Draft International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Miscellaneous Provisions Order 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Reported, 448. Approved, 456. Draft INTELSAT (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Reported, 448. Approved, 456. JOURNAL To be printed, with an Index thereto, by the appointment and under the direction of the Clerk of the House, by such persons as shall be licensed by the Speaker, 2. The Speaker directs that Her Majesty's Speech be entered in the Journal, 2. Letter from Crown Court Judge to the Speaker ordered to be entered in the Journal, 222. Kent County Council Bill [Lords]: To originate in the Lords, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Lords communicate Resolution relating to suspension of proceedings, 550. Commons concur, 554. Landlord and Tenant: Rent Acts (Maximum Fair Rent) Order 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 132. First, 148. Reported, 176. LAW OFFICERS Speaker informs House that she has asked Attorney General, on behalf of the House, to seek declaration from High Court on construction of Representation of the People Act 1983 [see Members III], 269. Speaker reports Court ruling, 294. Leasehold Reform Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 210. Legal Aid and Advice: Draft Legal Aid (Prescribed Panels) Regulations 1998, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 86. Reported, 94. Approved, 98. Legal Aid and Advice (Scotland): Draft Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Prescribed Proceedings) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 40. Reported, 50. Approved, 57. Draft Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 40. Reported, 50. Approved, 57. Draft Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 215. Approved, 224. Draft Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 215. Approved, 224. Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 208. Third, 237. Reported, 245. Legal Services: Draft Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 530. Reported, 542. Approved, 559. Libraries: Draft Public Lending Right (Increase of Limit) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 149. Reported, 180. Approved, 207. Licensing (Young Persons) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 251. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 267. Lifelong Learning (Participation and Entitlement) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 181. Line of Route: Resolution, 349. Local Government: Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (England) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 142. Second, 148. Reported, 180. Local Government Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 14. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 67. B, 75. Reported, with Amendments, 151. As amended, considered; further consideration ordered to be adjourned, 229. Further considered; read the third time, and passed, 235. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 448. Lords Amendments considered and agreed to, the Commons being willing to waive their privileges in respect of certain of them, 484. (Cited as Local Government Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Local Government Finance: Local Government Finance Report (England) 1999–2000, approved, 111. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 37), approved, 111. Local Government Finance Report (England) 1997–98: Amending Report 1999, approved, 111. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 40), allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 134. Reported, 140. Approved, 146. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No.39), allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 134. Reported, 144. Approved, 157. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 41), allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 149. Reported, 163. Approved, 169. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 38): Special Grant for Asylum Seekers, allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 176. Approved, 207. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 45) (Metropolitan Railway Passenger Services Grant 1999–2000), allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 236. Reported, 243. Approved, 247. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE—continued Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 42) on the Promoting Independence: Partnership Grant for 1999–2000, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 254. Reported, 265. Approved, 271. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 43) on the Promoting Independence: Prevention Grant for 1999-2000, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 254. Reported, 265. Approved, 271. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 44) on the Promoting Independence: Carers Grant for 1999-2000, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 254. Reported, 265. Approved, 271. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 47) on Rural Bus Subsidy Grants for 1999–2000, allocated to Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 305. Reported 319. Approved, 333. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 46) on Private Finance Initiative, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 318. Reported, 330. Approved, 357. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 48) on 1999–2000 Special Grant for developing new approaches to commissioning services for drug misusers, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 446. Reported, 464. Approved, 472. Local Government Finance (England) Special Grant Report (No. 50) on Children's Services (Quality Protects) Special Grants for 1998–99 and 1999–2000, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 446. Reported, 469. Approved, 484. Local Government Finance (Scotland): Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1999, approved, 125. Special Grant Report for Scotland Asylum Seeker Assistance (No. 1/1999), allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 176. Approved, 207. Special Grant Report (Scotland): Grant in Aid of Expenditure on Rural Public Passenger Transport for 1999–2000, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 236. Reported, 243. Approved, 247. Special Grant Report (Scotland): Grant in Aid of Expenditure on Rail Services in the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Area, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 236. Reported, 243. Approved, 247. Local Government Finance (Wales): Local Government Finance Report (Wales) 1999–2000, approved, 124. Local Government Finance (Amendment) Report (Wales) 1998–1999, approved, 124. Special Grant Report (Wales) 1999, approved, 124. Special Grant Report (No.2) (Wales) 1999: Special Grant for Asylum Seekers, allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 176. Approved, 207. London Local Authorities Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, read the first time, and referred to the Examiners, 136. Examiner's Report, no Standing Order not previously inquired into applicable, 151. Read a second time, and committed, 168. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 527. Lords Message communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 532. Report from the Standing Orders Committee, That it had resolved, That a dispensation from the provisions of Standing Order (Petitions against private bills) ought to be granted in the case of the late Petition against the Bill; Resolution agreed to, 458. Medicines: Medicines (Advertising and Monitoring of Advertising) Amendment Regulations 1999, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 262. Ninth, 278. Reported, 286. Medway Council Bill [Lords]: To originate in the Lords, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Lords communicate Resolution relating to suspension of proceedings, 550. Commons concur, 554. MEMBERS I. Members sworn or made affirmation: Hilary James Benn, Esquire, Member for Leeds Central (made affirmation), 370. Stephen Rothwell O'Brian, Esquire, Member for Eddisbury (sworn), 481. Bill Tynan, Esquire, Member for Hamilton South (sworn), 492. Neil Turner, Esquire, Member for Wigan (made affirmation), 492. II. Deaths of members: The Speaker informs the House of the deaths of Members: —Fatchett, Right honourable Derek John (Leeds Central), 310. —Stott, Roger, Esquire (Wigan), 492. —Clark, Right honourable Alan Kenneth McKenzie (Kensington and Chelsea), 492. III. Member convicted of corrupt practice; conviction later overturned on appeal: Speaker informs House that she has received letter from Crown Court Judge informing her that Member for Newark has been convicted of corrupt practice; letter ordered to be entered in the Journal; Speaker informs House that, under terms of Representation of the People Act 1983, seat for constituency of Newark is vacated, 222. MEMBERS III—continued Speaker informs the House that Court of Appeal has quashed conviction, and that she has asked the Attorney General, on behalf of House, to seek declaration from High Court on construction of Representation of the People Act 1983 as to whether seat remains vacant, 269. Speaker informs the House that Member for Newark has resumed seat, following High Court ruling that she is entitled to do so, 294. IV. Disqualification of Members: Speaker lays notification of disqualification of a Member: —Goodlad, Right honourable Sir Alastair Robertston (Eddisbury) (Chiltern Hundreds), 403. V. Members Suspended: Mr Ernie Ross, Member for Dundee West, suspended for ten sitting days, 433. Mr Don Touhig, Member for Islwyn, suspended for three sitting days, 516. Kali Mountford, Member for Colne Valley, suspended for five sitting days, 516. VI. Members' Salaries, Pensions, Allowances and Expenses: 1. Resolutions relating to Members' Salaries, Pensions, Allowances and Expenses: Travel by Members to National Parliaments and European Union Institutions (original Question amended), 349. 2. Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund: Member appointed a Managing Trustee, in the room of another Member, 352. Mental Health: Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 82. First, 86. Reported, 91. MESSAGES—continued Mental Health Amendment (Scotland) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 181. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 190. Certified by the Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland, 191. Allocated to Second Scottish Standing Committee, 205. Reported, without Amendment, 330. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 476. Agreed to by the Lords, 570. (Cited as Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. MESSAGES I. From Her Majesty: At the opening of the Session, 1. II. From the Lords Commissioners: To hear a commission from Her Majesty for giving the Royal Assent to Acts and for proroguing Parliament, 575. III. From the Lords: 1. Bills, Private: That they have passed a Bill, to which they desire the concurrence of the Commons, 10, &c. That they have agreed to Commons Bills: —without Amendment, 387, &c. That they have agreed, without Amendment, to Commons Amendments to a Lords Bill, 232, &c. That they have come to Resolutions relating to Bills originating in the Commons in the present Session, that the Promoters have leave to suspend proceedings, &c., 532. That they have come to Resolutions relating to Bills originating in the Lords in the present Session, that the Promoters have leave to suspend proceedings, &c., 550. That they have come to Resolutions relating to Bills originating in the Lords in the present Session, that the Promoters have leave to suspend proceedings, &c.,which have been suspended by the Commons, 532, 538, 552, 553. That they concur with the Commons in their Messages relating to Bills originating in the Commons in the present Session which have been suspended by the Commons, 550. 2. Bills, Public: That they have agreed to Bills originating in the Commons: —without Amendment, 60, &c. —with Amendments, 448, &c. —with an Amendment, 174. That they have passed a Bill, to which they desire the concurrence of the Commons, 101, &c. That they have agreed, without Amendment, to Commons Amendments to Lords Bills, 383, &c. —to a single Commons Amendment, 146. That they do not insist on Amendments disagreed to by the Commons, 403, &c. That they have agreed to certain Commons Amendments; have agreed to another, with an Amendment; and disagreed to others with Reasons, 448. That they have agreed to Commons Amendments in lieu of Commons Amendments to which the Lords have disagreed; do not insist on their Amendment to a further Commons Amendment; and have agreed to a Commons Amendment in lieu thereof, 481. That they do not insist on an Amendment to which Commons have disagreed, but propose Amendment in lieu thereof; and have agreed to Commons Amendment to remaining Lords Amendment, 484. MESSAGES III.2—continued That they do not insist on certain of their Amendments to which Commons have disagreed, and agree, without Amendment, to the Amendments proposed by the Commons in lieu of their Amendments disagreed to; they do not insist on another Amendment to which the Commons have disagreed, but propose an Amendment in lieu thereof; they do not insist on their remaining Amendments to which the Commons have disagreed; they agree, without Amendment, to certain Amendments made by the Commons to the words restored to the Bill; they disagree to another Amendment made by the Commons, but propose an Amendment in lieu thereof, and agree to the remaining Amendment made by the Commons, with Amendments to the words restored to the Bill, 554. That they do not insist on certain of their Amendments to which the Commons have disagreed; do not insist on a further such Amendment and agree to a Commons Amendment in lieu thereof; agree to Commons Amendments to their remaining Amendments; and agree to Commons consequential Amendments, 569. That they do not insist on their Amendments to which the Commons have disagreed, and agree to Commons Amendment to words restored to the Bill, 570. That they do not insist on their Amendment to which the Commons have disagreed, and agree to Commons Amendment to their remaining Amendment, 570. 3. Committees, Joint: That they have appointed a Committee to join with a Committee of the Commons as the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, and proposing time of meeting, 16. Lords appointed to serve on Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, etc., 27. Lords propose time and place of meeting, 29. Lords concur with Commons that it is expedient to appoint a Joint Committee on Financial Services and Markets, 151. Lords have appointed a Committee, and propose time and place of meeting, 159. Lords concur with Commons Instruction to Committee, 287. Lords concur with Commons that it is expedient to appoint a Joint Committee to consider the draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill, and that the Committee should report by a specified date, 342. —Lords appointed to serve on said Committee, &c., 356. That they have appointed a Committee to join with a Committee of the Commons as the joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills; that they have ordered that the Committee have power to agree with the Commons in the appointment of a Chairman, &c., 356 MESSAGES IV—continued 4. Resolutions: That they have come to a Resolution [relating to the printing of record copies of Acts on archive paper instead of vellum], to which they desire the concurrence of the Commons, 492. IV. To the Lords: 1. Bills, Public: To communicate Reasons for disagreeing to Lords Amendments, 391, &c. 2. Bills, Private: To acquaint their Lordships: —that the Commons have made certain Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of procedings on Private Bills originating in the Lords in the present Session, &c., 528, &c. —that the Commons have made certain Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings on Bills which originated in the Commons in the present Session [upon consideration of a Message from the Lords], 535, &c. 3. Committees, Joint: Appointment of Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege, 10. Commons concur with Lords as to time and place of meeting, 29. That it is expedient to appoint Joint Committee on Financial Services and Markets, 142. Select Committee of eight Members appointed and instructed to report by specified date, 155. Commons concur with Lords as to time and place of meeting, 159. Instruction to report by further specified date on specified parts of the draft bill in respect of the European Convention on Human Rights, 284. That it is expedient to appoint a Joint Committee on the Draft Local Government (Organisation and Standards) Bill; Committee to report by a specified date, 341. Select Committee of eight Members appointed and instructed to report by a specified date, 352. Commons concur with Lords as to time and place of meeting, 361. 4. Miscellaneous: Commons do not concur with the Lords in their Resolution relating to record copies of Acts of Parliament, 536. Metropolitan Police: Sessional Order, 1. Military Action Against Iraq (Parliamentary Approval) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 91. Military Expenditure (Conscientious Objection) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 492. Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 144. Modernisation of The House of Commons: Resolutions, 55, 342. Motor Accident Injury Compensation Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 163. Multiple Retailer (Publication And Display of Ethical Sourcing Policies) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 542. National Health Service: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1999, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 132. Third, 148. Reported, 180. National Institute for Clinical Excellence Regulations 1999, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 132. Third, 148. Reported, 180. National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations, 1999, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 450. Fifth, 467. Reported, 488. National Health Service (Scotland): National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No.3) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 450. Fifth, 467. Reported, 488. National Lottery: Draft Appointment of Money in the National Lottery Distribution Fund Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 97. Reported, 107. Approved, 111. Draft New Opportunities Fund (Specifications of Incentives) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 212. Reported, 222. Approved, 235. National Science Strategy Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 563. Newark Writ: Question superseded, 243. Northern Ireland: Draft Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 8. Reported, 27. Approved, 29. Draft Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 25. Reported, 42. Approved, 47. Draft Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 97. Reported, 111. Approved 113. Draft Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, referred to Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 132. Reported, 151. Approved, 157. Draft Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997 (Amnesty Period) Order 1999, approved 137. Draft Trade Union Subscription Deductions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 156. Approved, 161. Draft Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 159. Approved, 165. Draft Strategic Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 148. Reported, 163. Approved, 170. Draft Energy Efficiency (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 149. Reported, 163. Approved, 170. Draft Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments—No.1) Order 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 150. Reported, 168. Approved, 174. Draft North-South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, approved, 174. Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1999 (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 248. NORTHERN IRELAND—continued Draft Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 214. Reported, 238. Approved, 248. Draft Northern Ireland (Emergency and Prevention of Terrorism Provisions) (Continuance) Order 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 354. Reported, 356. Approved, 370. Draft Appropriation (No.2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, approved, 387. Draft North/South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Reported, 442. Approved, 450. Draft Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (Procedural Rules) Order 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Approved, 455. Draft Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (Code of Conduct) Order 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Approved, 456. Draft Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (Guidelines) Order 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Approved, 456. Draft Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Interim Period Extension) Order 1999, approved, 440. Draft Northern Ireland Act Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 446. Reported, 469. Approved, 484. Draft Licensing and Registered Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, allocated to Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 530. Reported, 542. Approved, 559. Northern Ireland Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 433. Motion for Second Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House; considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment; read the third time, and passed, 440. Programme Order, 437. Money Resolution, 439. Amendments, &c., may be tabled before Second Reading, 434. Order, That, at a future sitting, any Lords Message relating to the Bill may be considered, though opposed, at any hour, 434. Northern Ireland (Location of Victims' Remains) Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 287. Read a second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 310. Considered in Committee; reported, with an Amendment; as amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 317. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 342. (Cited as Northern Ireland (Location of Victims' Remains) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 348. Nuclear Safeguards Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 172. Obscenity Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 356. Office Costs Etc. Allowances: Resolution, 10. (No. 2), 221. OPPOSITION I. Days at the Disposal of the Leader of the Opposition:
II. Days at the Disposal of the Leader of the Second Largest Opposition Party:
OPPOSITION—continued III. Proceedings on Opposition Days: Question, That the original words stand part of the Question, negatived on Division, 35, &c. Question, That the proposed words be there added, put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Questions and amendments), and agreed to, 78, &c. —on Division, 35, &c. The Speaker forthwith declared the main Question, as amended, to be agreed to, 35, &c. Debate adjourned on Question, That the original words stand part of the Question (it being Seven o'clock (on a Thursday)), 400. IV. Miscellaneous: Order applying Standing Order (Questions on amendments) to specified proceedings as if specified days were opposition days, 520. Motions proceeded with accordingly: —Police Numbers, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Control and the Government's Handling of Revelations Relating to Cold War Spies, 523. —State of the National Health Service, 524. Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance): Resolution, 350. Organic Food and Farming Targets Bill: Presented and read the first time, 523. Outlawries Bill: Read the first time, 2. PARLIAMENT Opened by Her Majesty, 1. Prorogued, 578. Parliament: Draft Ministerial and other Salaries Order, 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 427. Reported, 436. Approved, 444. Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund: Order appointing a Member as a Managing Trustee, in the room of another Member, 352. Parliamentary Control of the Executive Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 389. Motion for Second Reading; Queen's Consent (Prerogative) signified; objection taken to further proceeding, 478. Pensions: Draft Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 1999, approved, 98. Pensions (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 233. Petitions, Public Presented, 172, &c. Presented and read, 18, &c. Ministerial replies laid upon the Table, pursuant to Standing Order (Printing of petitions and of ministerial replies), 15, &c. Planning Appeals Bill: Presented and read the first time, 71. Police: Draft Functions of Traffic Wardens (Scotland) Order 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 8. Reported, 20. Approved, 29. Draft Police Act 1997 (Notification of Authorisations etc.) Order 1998, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 25. Reported, 32. Approved, 36. Draft Police Act 1997 (Authorisation of Action in Respect of Property) (Code of Practice) Order 1998, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 25. Reported, 32. Approved, 36. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice No. 5) Order 1998, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 86. Reported, 93. Approved, 98. Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 1999-2000, approved, 111. Police Numbers, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Control and the Government's Handling of Revelations Relating to Cold War Spies: Resolution, 524. Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 336. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 357. A, 363. Reported, with Amendments, 388. As amended, considered; long title amended; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 443. To which the Lords agree, 481. (Cited as Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488. Poverty and Social Exclusion (National Strategy) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 119. Prescription Charges (Hormone Replacement Therapy) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 251. Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism: Draft Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (Continuance) Order 1999, approved, 206. Draft Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (Revival of Parts IVA and IV B) Order 1999, approved, 400. Prevention of Delay in Trials Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 206. Prince of Wales Prince of Wales, having been informed of the purport of a Bill, has consented to place his interest, so far as it is affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes of the Bill, 101, 121. Prisons: Draft Parole Board (Transfer of Functions Order 1998, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 25. Reported, 32. Approved, 37. Draft Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 1999, allocated to Seventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 247. Privilege, Parliamentary: See Committees, Joint. Procedural Consequences of Devolution: Resolution, 516. PROCEEDINGS OR BUSINESS I. Proceedings or Business Interrupted: by the Speaker: —at Eleven o'clock on a Friday, pursuant to Standing Order (Friday Sittings), 154, &c. Estimates: For Notification of Royal Assent: —on Question, That this House takes note of Select Committee reports, 76. —on Question, That this House do now adjourn, 151. II. Proceedings Lapse: Motions for the Adjournment: —at Ten o'clock, 4, &c. —at Two o'clock (on a Wednesday), 6, &c. —at half-past Seven o'clock (on a Thursday, pursuant to Sessional Order), 77, &c. —at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday), 385. III. Proceedings Postponed, Stand Adjourned, Questions Deferred, &c.: [For Questions deferred during consideration of Estimates, see Estimates.] Motion for a new Writ; and the Motion being opposed, further proceeding stood adjourned, 243. —Proceeding resumed; Question amended by leaving out from the word ‘That' to the end and adding the words ‘this House do pass to the Orders of the day', and, as amended, agreed to, 243. Further proceeding stood postponed at (or after) Seven o'clock, pursuant to Standing Order (Time for taking private business): —consideration of Bill, as amended, 443. Further proceeding stood adjourned at (or after) Ten o'clock: —consideration of Lords Amendments, 466. Further proceeding stood adjourned at (or after) Seven o'clock (on a Thursday): —consideration of Lords Amendments, 551. IV. Business Stands Over: PROCEEDINGS OR BUSINESS V—continued On Consideration of a Private Member's Bill, fewer than forty Members having taken part in a Division, 340. V. Objection taken to Further Proceeding: Motion for Second Reading of a Private Member's Bill (Queen's consent having been signified), 476, 478. Motion relating to suspension of proceedings on a private Bill, 532. Motion for a new Writ, 243. Professions Supplementary to Medicine: Draft Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Clinical Scientists Board) Order of Council 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 355. Reported, 361. Approved, 371. Draft Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Speech and Language Therapists Board) Order of Council 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 355. Reported, 361. Approved, 371. Draft Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Paramedics Board) Order of Council 1999, allocated to Eleventh Standing Order Committee on Delegated Legislation, 355. Reported, 361. Approved, 371. Property Letting Agents (Client Money Segregation) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 420. Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 94. Protection of Children Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 136. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 154. C, 158. Reported, with Amendments, 232. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 294. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 417. (Cited as the Protection of Children Act 1999) Royal Assent, 450. Money Resolution, 174. PROVISIONAL ORDERS (SCOTLAND) Report from Committee of Selection, That it has appointed fifteen Members to act as Commissioners under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, 39. Reports by the Lord Chairman and the Chairman of Ways and Means under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, That they are of opinion the Provisional Order should be allowed to proceed, &c., 219, 509. Public Accounts: Resolution, 76. Public House Names Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. QUEEN [For Queen's Answers to Addresses, see Addresses.] I. Queen's Speeches: Queen's Speech at opening of Session reported by the Speaker and ordered to be entered in the Journal, 2, &c. QUEEN II—continued Queen's Speech on Prorogation delivered to both Houses by Lord High Chancellor, 576. II. Queen's Consent: Her Majesty, being informed of the purport of a Bill, has consented to place her prerogative and interest, so far as they are affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposed of the Bill: Her Majesty, being informed of the purport of a Bill, gives Her Consent, so far as Her Majesty's [prerogative and] interest is concerned, That the House may do therein as it shall think fit, in respect of: —Private Bill, on Third Reading, 270. Her Majesty, being informed of the purport of a Church of England Measure, has consented to place her prerogative and interest, so far as it is concerned on behalf of the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes of the Measure, 396. III. Royal Assent Given: To Acts: —by Lords Commissioners authorised by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, 576. To an Act, under provisions of Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, 76. Questions to Ministers: Resolution, 519. Railtrack (Waverley Station) Order: Report by the Lord Chairman and the Chairman of Ways and Means under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, That Provisional Order should be allowed to proceed, &c., 219. Railways Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 423. Motion Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time; referred to Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee, with Instruction that the Committee shall consider the provisions of the Bill and report thereon by specified date, 455. Rating (Valuation) Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 10. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 63. A, 74. Reported, without Amendment, 81. Not amended, considered; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, 146. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 342. (Cited as Rating (Valuation) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 348. Rating and Valuation: Draft Railways (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 110. Reported, 124. Approved, 132. Draft Railways (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 166. Reported, 206. Approved, 211. Record Copies of Acts: Question negatived, 536. Recycling of Household Waste Bill: Presented and read the first time, 284. Recycled Content of Newsprint Bill: Presented and read the first time, 238. Referendum (English Parliament) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 316. Referendums Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 220. C, 239. Reported, with Amendments, 319. As amended, considered; Question, That a new Clause be read a second time, not decided (fewer than forty Members having taken part in the Division); business under consideration consequently stood over until next sitting of the House, 340. Money Resolution, 300. Registration of Political Parties Act 1998: Speaker appoints Member to Advisory Committee on the Registration of Political Parties, established under section 10 of the Act (in place of another Member), 442. Regulating of Operating Department Practitioners Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 405. Regulations on Small Businesses (Reduction) Bill: Ordered, Presented and read the first time, 284. Representation of the People: Draft European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 255. Reported, 261. Approved, 266. Draft European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 278. Reported, 286. Approved, 292. RESOLUTIONS [For Resolutions for Addresses, see Addresses; for Estimates Resolutions, see Estimates; for Resolutions relating to European Community/Union Documents, see European Community/Union Documents; for Resolutions relating to Business, Sittings and Adjournment of the House, see House]; for Resolutions relating to Members' pensions, salaries, &c., see Members; for Resolutions come to on Opposition days, see Opposition; for Resolutions relating to Statutory Instruments, &c., see Statutory Instruments, &c.; for Ways and Means Resolutions, see Ways and Means.] I. Questions Agreed to: Data Protection (Question put forthwith, pursuant to Order), 489. European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, Section 5 (Question put forthwith, pursuant to Order), 333. RESOLUTIONS I—continued Line of Route (original Question amended), 349. Modernisation of the House of Commons (Questions put at specified hour, pursuant to Order), 55, 342. Office Costs Etc. Allowances, 10. Office Costs Etc. Allowances (No. 2), 221. Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance), 350. Procedural Consequences of Devolution, 516. Police Numbers, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Control and the Government's Handling of Revelations Relating to Cold War Spies (Original Question amended), 524. Public Accounts (Private Member's Resolution debated in Government time), 76. Questions to Ministers, 519. State of the National Health Service (Original Question amended), 524. Travel by Members to National Parliaments and European Union Institutions (Original Question amended), 349. II. Questions Negatived: Record Copies of Acts, 536. III. Questions Superseded: Newark Writ, 243. IV. Resolutions Rescinded: Travel by Members to European Community Institutions [6th December 1991], 349. V. Money Resolutions: 1. Resolutions authorising expenditure in connection with Government Bills, Her Majesty's Recommendation having been signified: Access to Justice Bill [Lords], 262.* Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords], 342.* Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords], 279.* Employment Relations Bill, 117.* European Parliamentary Elections Bill, 22.* Food Standards Bill, 387.* Financial Services and Markets Bill, 403.* Health Bill [Lords], 256.* Immigration and Asylum Bill, 137.* Northern Ireland, 439.* Northern Ireland (Location of Victims' Remains) Bill, 310.* Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords], 357.* Rating (Valuation) Bill, 63.* RESOLUTIONS V.1—continued Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, 32.* Scottish Enterprise Bill, 88.* Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions etc.) Bill [Lords], 113.* Water Industry Bill, 29.* Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords], 265.* * Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills). 2. Resolutions authorising expenditure in connection with Private Members' Bills, Her Majesty's Recommendation having been signified: Football (Offences and Disorder) Bill, 292. Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill, 224. Protection of Children Bill, 174. Referendums Bill, 300. Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Bill, 224. VI. Ways and Means Resolutions: Resolutions in connection with the Budget, 177, 192–204. Resolutions in connection with Bills, 51, &c. [See Ways and Means.] VIII. Miscellaneous: Questions put forthwith under Standing Order (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills), 22, &c. Restraining and Protection Orders Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 287. Right to Roam Bill: Presented and read the first time, 69. Motion for Second Reading; Debate stood adjourned (at half-past Two o'clock (on a Friday)), 241. Road Traffic: Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (Wales) Order 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 247. Draft Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 264. Reported, 274. Approved, 280. Draft Courses for Drink-Drive Offenders (Experimental Period) (Termination of Restrictions) Order 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 467. Reported, 481. Approved, 489. Road Traffic (Enforcement Powers) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 452. Read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 454. Road Traffic (Nhs Charges) Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 12. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 32. B, 40. Reported, with Amendments, 66. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 87. Agreed to by the Lords, with an Amendment; Lords Amendment agreed to, 174. (Cited as Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 181. Money Resolution, 32. Road Traffic (Use of Mobile Telephones) Bill: Brought from the Lords, 464. Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 151. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 172. C, 189. Reported, without Amendment, 261. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 340. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 405. (Cited as Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Money Resolution, 224. Road Traffic Regulation (Cycle Parking) Bill [Lords] : Brought from the Lords, 330. Read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 342. Royal Parks (Trading) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 365. Rural Transport Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 328. Safety At Sea Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 374. School Standards and Framework: Draft Code of Practice on School Admissions, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 278. Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries (Amendment) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 458. Scottish Enterprise Bill: Presented under Standing Order (Procedure upon bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue) and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 20. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 87. First Scottish, 96. Reported, without Amendment, 107. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 156. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 279. (Cited as Scottish Enterprise Act 1999) Royal Assent, 348. Certified by the Speaker as, in her opinion, relating exclusively to Scotland, 46. Money Resolution, 88. Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, 283. Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) (Amendment) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords, and read the first time, 144. Section 155 of the Finance Act 155 1998: Resolution 36. Serjeant at Arms To communicate Sessional Order to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, &c., 2. Speaker informs House that she has received a letter from Mr Peter Jennings, CVO, Serjeant at Arms, intimating his wish to retire, 423. Sex Education in Schools Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 298. Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 55. Read a second time, and committed in part to a Committee of the whole House and in part to a Standing Committee, 89. Allocated (except specified Clause), E, 97. Specified Clause considered in Committee; reported, without Amendment, 120. Bill (except specified Clause) reported from Standing Committee E, with Amendments, 124. Not amended in Committee, and as amended in the Standing Committee, considered; read the third time, and passed, 156. Order, That when the provisions of the Bill considered, respectively, by the Committee of the whole House and by the Standing Committee have been reported to the House, the Bill shall be proceeded with as if the Bill had been reported as a whole to the House from the Standing Committee, 89. Sexual Offences (Anonymity of Defendants) Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 245. Social Security: Income Support (General) (Standard Interest Rate Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1998, referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 47. Sixth, 59. Reported, 69. Draft Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Fund Payments) Order 1999, approved, 98. Draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1999, approved, 98. Draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No.2) Order 1999, approved, 98. Draft Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Amendment Regulations 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on delegated Legislation, 167. Reported, 209. Approved, 224. Draft Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 212. Reported, 222. Approved, 235. Draft Social Security (Incapacity, Earnings and Work Trials) Pilot Schemes Regulations 1999, allocated to Tenth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 251. Draft Social Security Commissioners (Procedure) Regulations 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 289. Reported, 315. Approved, 333. Draft Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 318. Reported, 328. Approved, 333. Draft Jobseeker's Allowance Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 530. Reported, 554. Approved, 567. Draft Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 548. Reported, 554. Approved, 567. Draft Jobseeker's Allowance (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1999, allocated to Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 548. Reported, 554. Approved, 567. Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 101; Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 113. D, 122. Reported, with an Amendment, 136. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, with an Amendment, 145. To which the Lords agree, 146. (Cited as Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999) Royal Assent, 151. Leave given to Standing Committee to meet twice on first day, 125. Money Resolution, 113. Ways and Means Resolution, 113. SPEAKER [References to the Speaker include references to the Deputy Speaker unless the context otherwise requires.] I. Proceedings Relating to the Speaker at Opening and Close of Session: Goes with the House to attend Her Majesty in the House of Peers, 1. Having returned, resumes Chair at half-past Two o'clock, 1. To peruse the Votes and Proceedings and appoint their printing, 2. Appoints The Stationery Office Limited to print Votes and Proceedings, 10. To license printing of Journal, 2. Reports Her Majesty's Speech and directs that it be entered in the Journal, 2. Goes with House to attend the Lords Commissioners in the House of Peers to hear a Commission read for giving the Royal Assent to Acts and for proroguing the present Parliament, 575. II. Communicates Matters to the House: Notifies the House of the deaths of Members, 310, &c. [See Members II.] Notifies the House that Member has been convicted of corrupt practice, and seat accordingly vacated, 222. Notifies the House that said Member's conviction has been quashed, and that she has asked Attorney General to seek High Court ruling on whether seat remains vacated, 269. Notifies House that said Member has resumed seat, following High Court ruling that she is entitled to do so, 294. [See Members III.] SPEAKER III—continued Notifies House of disqualification of a Member, 403. Notifies the House of Royal Assent to Acts, 60, &c. Informs the House that she has received letter from Serjeant at Arms, intimating his wish to retire, 423. III. Lays Papers on the Table: Communications declaring that Statutory Instruments had come into operation before copies were laid before Parliament, 24, 510. Estimates for House of Commons, Class XVIII A: —Appropriation Accounts, 1997–98, 99. —Spring Supplementary Estimate for 1998–99, 153. —Estimate for 1999–2000, 254. Reports from the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 63, &c. Alphabetical index to Bills, House of Commons Papers and Command Papers for Session 1998–99, IV. Nominations and Appointments: Appoints Chairmen of Standing Committees, 8, &c. [See Committees, Standing X.1.] Nominates Business Sub-Committee, 83. [See Committees, Standing, X.5.] Appoints a Member for duration of Parliament to Advisory Committee on the Registration of Political Parties (in place of another Member), 442. V. Certificates and Allocations: Makes allocations to Standing Committees: —Bills, 39, &c. —Delegated Legislation, 8, &c. Certifies Bills, as in her opinion, relating exclusively to Scotland, 46, &c. [See Bills, Public XIII.] [See Bills, Public XII.] Certifies a Bill under provisions of Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, as to compliance with the provisions of the said Acts, 76. [See Bills, Public, XVII.] VI. Puts Questions Forthwith: 1. Pursuant to Standing Orders: (Amendment on second or third reading), 32, &c. (Calling of amendments at end of debate), 17. (Committal of Bills): —That a Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, 105, &c. —That a Bill be committed to a Special Standing Committee, 136. (Consideration of draft deregulation orders), 82, &c. (Consolidated Fund Bills): (Exempted business): —Questions put at Ten o'clock, 120, &c. (European Standing Committees), 17. &c. SPEAKER VI.1—continued (House not to sit on certain Fridays), 11. (Liaison Committee), 27. (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills), 29, &c. (Northern Ireland Grand Committee), 23. (Periodic adjournments), 33, &c. (Questions on amendments), 35, &c. (Second Reading Committees): (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation): —Question, That instrument be approved, 29, &c. (Ways and Means Motions), 192, &c. 2. Pursuant to Orders: Financial documents treated as if they were instruments subject to the provisions of Standing Order (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), 333. Motion treated as if it related to an instrument subject to the provisions of Standing Order (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation), 489. VII. Puts Questions at Specified Times or After Specified Periods: 1. Pursuant to Standing Orders: (Committal of bills), after brief explanatory statements, 271. (Consideration of estimates): (Questions on voting of estimates, &c.): —after Seven o'clock (pursuant to Sessional Order), 217. (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills): (Motions for leave to bring in Bills and nomination of Select Committees at commencement of public business): —after brief explanatory statements, 91, &c. 2. Pursuant to Business of the House Orders: On Motions for approval of Delegated Legislation: —at Seven o'clock (several Questions successively), 111. —after three hours, 387. On Motions for approval of European Union Documents: —at Ten o'clock, 52. On Motions relating to Modernisation of the House of Commons: SPEAKER VIII—continued —after three hours, 343. —after four hours, 55. 3. Pursuant to Allocation of Time and Programme Orders: [See Bills, Public XV.] VIII. Other Proceedings of the Speaker: Directs that Queen's Speech be entered in the Journal, 2. Adjourns House without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order, 11, &c. Resumes Chair on conclusion of proceedings in Committee of the whole House, 23, &c. Interrupts proceedings at Eleven o'clock on a Friday, 154, &c. [See Proceedings or Business.] Declares Main Question, as amended, to be agreed to, pursuant to Standing Order (Questions on amendments), 35, &c. Appoints certain Wednesdays for debates on Select Committee Reports chosen by Liaison Committee, 31, 100. Declines to propose Question, pursuant to Standing Order (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House), 241. Orders, That Speaker shall not adjourn House until she shall have notified Royal Assent, 33, &c. — Order amended, 341. Suspends sitting, pursuant to Order, 537. Declares that, it appearing on the report of a Division that fewer than forty Members had taken part in the Division, the Question was not decided in the Affirmative, 269. Declares that, it appearing on the report of a Division that fewer than forty Members had taken part, the Question was not decided, and the business under consideration stood over until the next sitting of the House, 340. Declares that (in a Division) the Ayes had it, there being no Tellers for the Noes, 433, &c. IX. Miscellaneous: Members appointed whom the Speaker is to consult, if practicable, before certifying a Bill to be a Money Bill, 20. Orders, That the Speaker do issue her Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out new writs for the electing of Members, 330, 409. Speaker given leave of absence on specified day (to attend opening of Scottish Parliament), 396. Speaker absent, pursuant to leave given, 413. SPECIAL PROCEDURE ORDERS Order laid, 311.* Report by Lord Chairman and Chairman of Ways and Means that they have certified petitions as Petitions of General Objection against Order, 384.* *City of Stoke-on-Trent Tunstall Northern By-pass Local Government Act Compulsory Purchase Order 1997. Standards and Privileges: Resolutions, 433, 516. STANDING ORDERS AND SESSIONAL ORDERS I. Standing Orders Relating to Public Business: 1. Standing Orders amended: (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)), 519. (Select committees related to government departments), 519. (Attendance of law officers and ministers in standing committees), 520. (Committee on Standards and Privileges), 520. 2. Miscellaneous: Standing Orders, as amended, to be printed, 60. II. Sessional Orders Relating to Public Business: Orders, That with effect from a specified date until the end of the present Session of Parliament, the Standing Orders and practice of the House shall have effect subject to modifications relating to: —Thursday sittings, 55. —Meetings of Standing Committees, 56. —Select Committees related to government Departments, 352. Orders, That in the next Session of Parliament the Standing Orders and practice of the House shall have effect subject to modifications relating to: —Sittings in Westminster Hall, 343. —Thursday sittings, 518. —Meetings of Standing Committees, 519. State of the National Health Service: Resolution, 524. Streetworks Bill: Presented and read the first time, 70. Supreme Court of England and Wales: Draft Civil Procedure (Modification of Enactments Order 1999, allocated to Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 264. Reported, 269. Approved, 276. Sustainable Energy Agency Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 349. Tax Credits Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 42. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 91. D, 96. Reported, with Amendments, 124. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, 210. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 356. Lords Amendments considered, some disagreed to; Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 391. Reasons reported and agreed to, 391. Lords do not insist on Amendments disagreed to, 403. (Cited as Tax Credits Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Programme Order, 389. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT—continued Taxes: Draft Tax Credits (New Category of Child Care Provider) Regulations 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 530. Reported, 542. Approved, 558. Terms and Conditions of Employment: Draft National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (Amendment) Regulations 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 149. Reported, 163. Approved, 169. Draft National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 149. Reported, 163. Approved, 170. Draft National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) Order 1999, allocated to Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 213. Reported, 232. Approved, 246. Draft Unfair Dismissal and Statement of Reasons for Dismissal (Variation of Qualifying Period) Order 1999, allocated to Eighth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 305. Reported, 319. Approved, 333. Draft Working Time Regulations 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 529. Reported, 538. Approved, 558. Town and Country Planning (Scotland): Town and Country Planning (Compensation for Restrictions on Mineral Working and Mineral Waste Depositing) (Scotland) Regulations 1998, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 40. Reported, 55. Approved, 63. Town and Country Planning (Minerals) (Scotland) Regulations 1998, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 40. Reported, 55. Approved, 63. Traffic Reduction (Air Quality and Health) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 383. Transport of Farm Animals Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 116. Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (Amendment of Rules) Bill (Changed from Transport Salaried Staff's Association (Amendment of Rules) etc. Bill): To originate in the Commons, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Read the first time, 89. Read a second time and referred to the Examiners, 104. Examiners' Report, Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with; Bill committed, 370. Reported from Committee on Unopposed Bills, with Amendments and Title and Preamble amended, 420. As amended, considered, 458. Read the third time, and passed, 481. Lords message communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 532. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 535 Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (Amendment of Rules) Etc. Bill: See Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (Amendment of Rules) Bill. Travel by Members to European Community Institutions: Resolution of 6th December 1991 rescinded, 349. Travel by Members to National Parliamentary and European Union Institutions: Resolution, 349. Trustee Delegation Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read for the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed; stood committed to a Second Reading Committee, pursuant to Standing Order (Law Commission Bills), 177. Report recommending Second Reading, 209. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 370. F, 382. Reported, without Amendment, 389. Not amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, without Amendment, 444. (Cited as Trustee Delegation Act 1999) Royal Assent, 450. United Reformed Church Bill [Lords]: To originate in the Lords, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Brought from the Lords, read the first time, and referred to the Examiners, 516. Examiner's Report, no Standing Order not previously inquired into applicable, 533. Orders (to be Standing Orders) relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 550. Lords Message communicating Resolutions relating to suspension of proceedings, &c., 553. University College London Bill: To originate in the Commons, 41. Examiners' Report, in case of Petition for Bill, Standing Orders complied with, 63. Read the first time, 89. Read a second time, and referred to the Examiners, 104. Examiners' Report, Standing Orders not previously inquired into complied with; Bill committed, 151. Reported from Committee on Unopposed Bills, with Amendments and Preamble amended, 206. As amended, considered, 227. Read the third time, and passed, 245. Agreed to by the Lords, without amendment, 387. (Cited as University College London Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 159. Value Added Tax: Value Added Tax (Input Tax) (Amendment) Order 1998, allocated to Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 9. Reported, 27. Approved, 29. Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 1999, allocated to Twelfth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 214. Reported, 238. Approved, 251. Value Added Tax (Buildings and Land) Order 1999, allocated to Twelfth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 214. Reported, 238. Approved, 251. Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 1999, referred to Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 292. Tenth, 305. Reported, 330. Value Added Tax (Abolition of Zero-Rating for Tax-Free Shops) Order 1999, allocated to Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 397. Reported, 414. Approved, 418. Value Added Tax (Sport, Sports Competitions and Physical Education) Order 1999, allocated to First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation), 514. Reported, 523. Approved, 536. Value Added Tax (Input Tax) (Amendment) Order 1999, allocated to Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 548. Reported, 554. Approved, 567. VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS Sessional Order for printing, 2. The Stationery Office Limited licensed to print, 10. Warm Homes and Energy Conservation (Fifteen Year Programme) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 488. Water Industry Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 6. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 29. A, 39. Reported, without Amendment, 76. Not amended, considered; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent and Prince of Wales's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, 121. Agreed to by the Lords, without Amendment, 399. (Cited as Water Industry Act 1999) Royal Assent, 410. Money Resolution, 29. WAYS AND MEANS I. Ways and Means Resolutions:
2. Resolutions relating to other Bills: Access to Justice Bill [Lords], 391. Financial Services and Markets, 403.* Food Standards, 434. Health Bill [Lords], 257.* Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords], 357.* Rating (Valuation) Bill, 63.* Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc) Bill [Lords], 113.* Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill, 141.* *Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order. II. Miscellaneous: 1. Resolutions under Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968: —having provisional statutory effect, 177. —having statutory effect, 192, &c. 2. Procedure Resolutions: —Procedure (VAT Liabilities of Government Departments), 203. —Procedure (Future Taxation), 203. 3. Bill ordered: WELFARE REFORM AND PENSIONS BILL— continued Upon Ways and Means Resolutions and upon Resolution relating to Procedures (Future Taxation), 204. Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill: Presented and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 119. Motion for Second Reading; Reasoned Amendment negatived; read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 141. D, 147. Reported, with Amendments, 284. As amended, considered; further consideration ordered to be adjourned, 326. Again considered [allotted day]; Motion for Third Reading; Queen's Consent signified; read the third time, and passed, 338. Agreed to by the Lords, with Amendments, 532. Lords Amendments considered; some agreed to (some with special entries); others disagreed to; others disagreed to and Amendments made in lieu; others disagreed to and Amendments made to the words restored to the Bill; Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 544. Reasons reported and agreed to, 547. Lords do not insist on certain of their Amendments and agree to Commons Amendments in lieu; do not insist on another Amendment but propose an Amendment in lieu; do not insist on remaining Amendments to which Commons have disagreed; agree to certain Commons Amendments to words restored to the Bill; disagree to another Commons Amendment, with Amendments to words restored to the Bill, 554. Lords Amendment in lieu of Lords Amendment disagreed to; Commons insist on Amendment and disagree to Lords Amendment in lieu; and Lords Amendments to Commons Amendments to words restored to the Bill disagreed to, 563. Committee appointed to draw up Reasons, 564. Reasons reported and agreed to, 566. Lords do not insist on their Amendments to which Commons have disagreed; and agree to remaining Commons Amendment to words restored to the Bill, 570. (Cited as Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999) Royal Assent, 576. Ways and Means Resolution, 141.
Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Bill: Presented and read the first time, 233. WITNESSES Sessional Resolution relating to tampering with witnesses, 1. Sessional Resolution relating to false evidence, 1. Work with Asbestos Bill: Ordered, presented and read the first time, 464. Xenotransplantation Bill: Presented and read the first time, 163. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]: Brought from the Lords and read the first time; Explanatory Notes ordered to be printed, 232. Read a second time and stood committed to a Standing Committee, 265. B, 283. Transferred to E, 334. Reported, with Amendments and amended long title, 405. As amended, considered; read the third time, and passed, with Amendments, 430. To which the Lords agree, 481. (Cited as Youth Justice and Criminal Justice Act 1999) Royal Assent, 488.Programme Order, 428. Money Resolution, 265.
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