Preliminary Business

Notice of Presentation of Bill

TOBACCO ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION    [No debate]

    Bill to control the advertising and promotion of tobacco products; and for connected purposes.

Main Business

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS    [Until 7.00 p.m.]

    That this House takes note of the 39th and 41st Reports of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 1998-99, of the 1st to 9th and 11th to 37th Reports of Session 1999-2000, and of the Treasury Minutes on these Reports (Cm 4576, 4593, 4656, 4695, 4688, 4732, 4758, 4798, 4822, 4863, 4886 and 4901).

SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That, following the Order [20th November], Mr Nicholas Winterton, Mr John McWilliam, Mr Barry Jones and Mr Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.

SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That, for the current Session of Parliament, Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended as follows:

    Line 37, before the word `European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'.

    Line 46, before the word `European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'.

    Line 48, at the end insert the words:—

`(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 2nd and 9th February, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th March, 6th and 27th April, 11th and 18th May, 8th and 15th June and 20th July 2001.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That, at the sitting on Thursday 21st December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he shall have notified the Royal Assent to Acts agreed upon by both Houses.

HUMAN RIGHTS (JOINT COMMITTEE)    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That—

the Lords Message [12th July] communicating a Resolution relating to Human Rights (Joint Committee), be now considered;

this House concurs with the Lords in the said Resolution; and

the following Standing Order be made:

(1)    There shall be a Select Committee, to consist of six Members, to join with the Committee appointed by the Lords as the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

(2)    The Committee shall consider—

(a)    matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom (but excluding consideration of individual cases);

(b)    proposals for remedial orders, draft remedial orders and remedial orders made under Section 10 of and laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998; and

(c)    in respect of draft remedial orders and remedial orders, whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to them on any of the grounds specified in Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee));

(3)    The Committee shall report to the House—

(a)    in relation to any document containing proposals laid before the House under paragraph 3 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether a draft order in the same terms as the proposals should be laid before the House; or

(b)    in relation to any draft order laid under paragraph 2 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether the draft Order should be approved;

and the Committee may report to the House on any matter arising from its consideration of the said proposals or draft orders.

(4)    The Committee shall report to the House in respect of any original order laid under paragraph 4 of the said Schedule 2, its recommendation whether—

(a)    the order should be approved in the form in which it was originally laid before Parliament; or

(b)    that the order should be replaced by a new order modifying the provisions of the original order; or

(c)    that the order should not be approved,

and the Committee may report to the House on any matter arising from its consideration of the said order or any replacement order.

(5)    The quorum of the committee shall be three.

(6)    Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.

(7)    The committee shall have power—

(a)    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 adjourn to institutions of the Council of Europe outside the United Kingdom no more than four times in any calendar year, and to report from time to time; and

(b)    to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.

HUMAN RIGHTS    [No debate after 7.00 p.m.]

    That Jean Corston, Mr Desmond Browne, Mr Andrew Miller, Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West), Sir Patrick Cormack and Mr A. J. Beith be Members of the Select Committee appointed to join with a Committee of the Lords as the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

ADJOURNMENT

    Proposed subject: Administration of Housing Benefit (Ms Karen Buck).

    Debate may continue until 7.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9 and Order of 20th November 2000).

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

SELECT COMMITTEES

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Questions tabled on Wednesday 13th December for answer today++

Standing Committee Notices

MEMORANDUM

Future Adjournment Debates