Notes:
* indicates a question for oral answer.
[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.
Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer.
Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.
+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport |
| *1 |
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): If she will issue guidelines to sports governing bodies on the criteria to be used in assessing the fitness of individuals for senior positions.
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(
208449
) |
| *2 |
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): What account she will take of standards of public decency in programmes screened by the BBC as part of her decision on whether to renew the BBC Charter.
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(
208450
) |
| *3 |
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): If she will make a statement on the state of live music in England and Wales.
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(
208451
) |
| *4 |
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): When she expects to announce the completion date for digital switchover.
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(
208452
) |
| *5 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): What role the proposed public service publisher will have in delivering regional news programmes in relation to digital broadcasting.
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(
208453
) |
| *6 |
Jim Knight (South Dorset): What discussions her Department has had on cultural activities linked to the 2012 Olympic bid.
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(
208454
) |
| *7 |
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): What support the Government is offering the UK film industry.
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(
208455
) |
| *8 |
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough): What steps she is taking to assist modernisation of national governing bodies of sport.
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(
208456
) |
| *9 |
John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland): What progress she has made towards securing a new Royal Charter for the BBC.
|
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(
208457
) |
| *10 |
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): What support her Department offers to amateur sports clubs.
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|
(
208458
) |
| *11 |
John Mann (Bassetlaw): What recent representations she has received on funding for community sports initiatives.
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(
208459
) |
| *12 |
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): What action she will take to meet considerations of taste and decency in the context of BBC Charter renewal.
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(
208460
) |
| *13 |
Bob Russell (Colchester): Whether it is her policy to support darts being recognised as a sport.
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(
208461
) |
| *14 |
Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): If she will make a statement on the promotion of Lottery funding for Veterans Reunited activity.
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|
(
208462
) |
| *15 |
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): What the coverage is in England for digital television provided by the BBC.
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(
208463
) |
| *16 |
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): What steps the Government is taking to ensure that regional programmes are well represented in independent television schedules.
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(
208464
) |
| *17 |
Mr Ian Taylor (Esher & Walton): If she will make a statement on her policy towards public service broadcasting.
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(
208465
) |
| *18 |
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): If she will make a statement on Government support for tourism.
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(
208466
) |
| *19 |
Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): What recent meetings her Department has had with English Heritage to discuss funding for heritage.
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(
208467
) |
| *20 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): Whether it is her policy to maintain the principle of additionality in the allocation of National Lottery money to good causes.
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|
(
208468
) |
| Oral Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, and the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners |
| *21 |
Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much money the Electoral Commission is spending on encouraging British citizens who are living abroad and are entitled to vote in general elections to register to vote.
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(
208469
) |
| *22 |
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what plans the Commission has to recommend that electors be permitted to register closer to the date of a general election.
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(
208470
) |
| *23 |
Sir Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, what assessment has been made of the resources available to the National Audit Office to undertake appropriate inquiries into the future procurement of major departmental IT projects.
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(
208471
) |
| *24 |
Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Commission plans to make proposals for further developing the facilities for rolling electoral registration.
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(
208472
) |
| *25 |
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what discussions the Electoral Commission has had with businesses on encouraging their workers who are living abroad and eligible to vote in UK elections to register to vote.
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(
208473
) |
| *26 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Commission has made of the security of postal voting.
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(
208475
) |
| *27 |
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will arrange for the publication of (a) the attendance records and (b) the voting records of members of all three Houses of the General Synod since the last elections.
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(
208476
) |
| *28 |
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, what discussions the Commissioners have had with the Heritage Lottery Fund about funding for cathedral and church restoration projects.
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208477
) |
| *29 |
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement on (a) church attendance and (b) church income in rural areas.
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(
208478
) |
| At 3.30 p.m. | Urgent Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Preliminary Business |
| Notice of Presentation of Bill
|
| 1 | CROWN EMPLOYMENT (NATIONALITY)
[No debate]
|
| |
| Bill to make provision for and in connection with the removal of general restrictions as to nationality which apply to persons employed or holding office in any civil capacity under the Crown; and for connected purposes.
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| Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
|
|
Main Business |
| + 2 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL [LORDS]: Second Reading. (Queen's Consent to be signified.)
[Until 10.00 p.m.]
|
| Annabelle Ewing
Mr Alex Salmond
Pete Wishart
Mr Michael Weir
Angus Robertson
|
| That this House declines to give a second reading to the Constitutional Reform Bill because it fails to repatriate final appellate jurisdiction of civil cases to Scotland; and therefore the new constitutional system would not make a sufficient distinction between the English and Scottish legal systems and would signify a breach of the Act of Union 1707 which states that Scottish cases can be heard on appeal south of the border only in a court entirely separate from the English legal system.
|
| Mr Michael Howard
David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
David Maclean
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| That this House declines to give the Constitutional Reform Bill a second reading because it creates a costly and unnecessary Supreme Court exercising the same functions as the current Law Lords; is based on the false premise that the separation of powers between the judiciary and legislature requires the physical removal of the Law Lords from Parliament; fails to demonstrate how the proposed Supreme Court would exercise its functions with any greater degree of impartiality, independence and integrity than the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords; will deny Parliament the experience and expertise that the Law Lords bring to debates and legislation; and notwithstanding the benefits of a Judicial Appointments Commission, offers no convincing justification for replacing a system that works well.
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|
|
| Twenty-third Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Final Progress Report, HC
1282;
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| First Report from the Constitutional Affairs Committee, Session 2003-04, HC
48, on Judicial Appointments and a Supreme Court (court of final appeal), and the Government's response thereto, Cm
6150.
|
| Debate may continue until 10.00 p.m.
|
| + 3 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL [LORDS] (PROGRAMME)
[No debate]
|
| Mr Peter Hain
Mr Christopher Leslie
|
| That the following provisions shall apply to the Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]:
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| Committal
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| 1. The following shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House—
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| (a) Clauses 1 to 7, 20, 21, 37, 94, 95 and 105 to 109;
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| (c) any new Clauses amending section 12 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;
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| (d) any new Clauses relating to matters connected with the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as reserved or excepted matters under the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
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| 2. The remainder of the Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.
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| Proceedings in Committee
|
| 3. (1) Proceedings in Committee of the whole House shall be completed in two days.
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| (2) Those proceedings shall be taken on each of those days as shown in the following table and shall be taken in the order shown there.
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| (3) Proceedings on each of those days shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the second column of the Table.
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| (4) Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings in Committee of the whole House.
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| TABLE
|
| Proceedings | Time for conclusion of proceedings |
| First day
|
| Clauses 1, 4, 6 and 7 | Three hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Bill |
| Clause 5, any new Clauses amending section 12 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, Clauses 2 and 3 | The moment of interruption or three hours after the commencement of proceedings on Clause 5, whichever is the later |
| Second day
|
| Clauses 20 and 21, any new Clauses relating to matters connected with the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as reserved or excepted matters under the Northern Ireland Act 1998, Clause 37, Schedule 8, Clause 109 | Three hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Bill |
| Clauses 105 to 108, 94 and 95 | The moment of interruption or three hours after the commencement of proceedings on Clause 105, whichever is the later |
| 4. (1) Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 24th February 2005.
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| (2) The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.
|
| 5. 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 it had been reported as a whole to the House from the Standing Committee.
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| Consideration and Third Reading
|
| 6. Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.
|
| 7. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.
|
| 8. Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.
|
| Other proceedings
|
| 9. Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of any Message from the Lords) may be programmed.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No.
83A(6)).
|
| + 4 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL [LORDS] [MONEY]: Queen's recommendation signified.
[No debate]
|
| |
| That for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords], it is expedient to authorise—
|
| (1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
|
| (a) any expenses of a Minister of the Crown in connection with the Act;
|
| (b) any increase attributable to the Act in sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under any other enactment;
|
| (2) the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of—
|
| (a) salaries of judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom;
|
| (b) any increase attributable to the Act in sums payable out of that Fund under any other enactment.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No.
52(1)(a)).
|
| + 5 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL [LORDS] [WAYS AND MEANS]
[No debate]
|
| |
| That for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords], it is expedient to authorise the levying of fees prescribed under the Act in respect of anything dealt with by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No.
52(1)(a)).
|
| + 6 | HUMANE TRAPPING STANDARDS
[No debate]
|
| |
| That this House takes note of European Union Document No.
12200/04, draft Directive on introducing humane trapping standards for certain animal species; and supports the Government's view that the humane trapping standards should be implemented and adopted in the United Kingdom.
|
| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No.
119(9)).
|
| At the end of the sitting:
|
| 7 | ADJOURNMENT
|
| Proposed subject: Control of sale of violent video games to children (Keith Vaz).
|
| Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m., or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | Standing Committee F | 7.00 p.m. | Room 7 (private) |
| (Programming Sub-Committee) (Child Benefit Bill). |
| 2 | Standing Committee G | 4.00 p.m. | Room 7 (private) |
| (Programming Sub-Committee) (Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill). |
| 3 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public) |
| To consider the Motion in respect of the Electoral Commission in the name of Mr Peter Hain. |
| 4 | Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public) |
| To consider the draft Local Authorities' Plans and Strategies (Disapplication) (England) Order 2005. |
|
| 5 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Future for UK Fishing Sub-Committee | 12.20 p.m.
12.30 p.m. | Committee Room 2, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Future for UK Fishing. |
| Witness: Ross Finnie MSP, Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Scottish Executive. |
| 6 | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Future For UK Fishing Sub-Committee | 2.10 p.m.
2.15 p.m. | Committee Room 2, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Future for UK Fishing. |
| Witnesses: Royal Society of Edinburgh; Sea Fish Industry Authority (at approximately 3.00 p.m.). |
| 7 | Welsh Affairs | 3.15 p.m.
3.45 p.m. | The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| [enlarged by the Local Government and Public Services Committee of the National Assembly for Wales] |
| Subject: Public Service Ombudsman (Wales) Bill [HL]. |
| Witnesses: Adam Peat, Local Government and Health Service Ombudsman for Wales and Welsh Administration Ombudsman, and Eric Drake, Scottish Public Services Deputy Ombudsman; Don Touhig MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Sue Essex AM, Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services, Welsh Assembly Government and Ann Abraham, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) and Health Service Commissioner for England (at approximately 5.00 p.m.). |
| 8 | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Urban Affairs Sub-Committee | 4.00 p.m.
4.15 p.m. | Room 8 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Role and Effectiveness of the Standards Board for England. |
| Witnesses: Audit Commission; Standards Board for England (at approximately 4.45 p.m.); Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Minister for Local Government and the Regions, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (at approximately 5.20 p.m.). |
| 9 | Treasury | 4.00 p.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private) |
| 10 | Information | 4.30 p.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private) |
| 11 | Public Accounts | 4.30 p.m. | Room 15 (public) |
| Subject: English Partnerships: Regeneration of the Millennium Dome and Associated Land. |
| Witnesses: Dame Mavis McDonald DCB, Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Mr John Walker, Finance & Commercial Director, English Partnerships. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
Written Ministerial Statements to be made today |
| 1 | Prime Minister: Council of Europe and Western European Union. |
| 2 | Secretary of State for Transport: Road collisions involving newly qualified drivers. |
|
