Amendment Paper as at
Monday 13th February 2006

CONSIDERATION OF LORDS AMENDMENTS

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IDENTITY CARDS BILL

On Consideration of Lords Amendments to the Identity Cards Bill

Lords Amendment No. 21

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move the following Amendment to the Bill in lieu of the Lords Amendment No 21:—

(a)

Page     37,     line     34,     leave out from 'required' to end of line 35 and insert 'to be entered in the Register in accordance with an obligation imposed by an Act of Parliament passed after the passing of this Act.'.

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Lords Amendment No. 16

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 22

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 1

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
Mr Frank Dobson
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 68

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
Mr Frank Dobson
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 69

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
Mr Frank Dobson
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 70

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
Mr Frank Dobson
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

   

Mr Frank Dobson
To move the following Amendment to the Bill in lieu of the Lords Amendments Nos. 1, 68, 69, and 70:—

(a)

Page     33,     line     19,     at end insert the following new Clause:—

       'Report to Parliament about likely costs of ID cards scheme

    (1)   Before the end of the six months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must prepare and lay before Parliament a report setting out his estimate of the public expenditure likely to be incurred on the ID cards scheme during the ten years beginning with the laying of the report.

    (2)   Before the end of every six months beginning with the laying of a report under this section, the Secretary of State must prepare and lay before Parliament a further report setting out his estimate of the public expenditure likely to be incurred on the ID cards scheme during the ten years beginning with the end of those six months.

    (3)   References in this section, in relation to any period of ten years, to the public expenditure likely to be incurred on the ID cards scheme are references to the expenditure likely to be incurred over that period by the Secretary of State and designated documents authorities on—

(a)	the establishment and maintenance of the Register;

(b)	the issue, modification, renewal, replacement, re-issue and surrender of ID cards;

(c)	the provision to persons by the Secretary of State of information recorded in individuals' entries in the Register.

    (4)   If it appears to the Secretary of State that it would be prejudicial to securing the best value from the use of public money to publish any matter by including it in his next report under this section, he may exclude that matter from that report.'.

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Lords Amendment No. 4

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 47

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 48

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 50

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 51

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 3

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
To move the following Amendment to the Bill in lieu of the Lords Amendment No 3:—

(a)

Page     1,     line     7,     after 'a' insert 'secure and reliable'.

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Lords Amendment No. 17

As an Amendment to the Lords Amendment:—

   

Mr Alan Reid
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Sir Robert Smith
Mr Alan Beith
Mr Paul Keetch
Tim Farron

(a)

Line     2,     after 'agreement', insert ', and provided that the Secretary of State has proposed a place not more than 20 miles on the public road network from the individual's place of residence'.

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ORDER OF THE HOUSE [28th JUNE 2005]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Identity Cards Bill:

Committal

    1.   The Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.

Proceedings in Standing Committee

    2.   Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 19th July 2005.

    3.   The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

    4.   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.

    5.   Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

    6.   Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Programming of proceedings

    7.   Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the Lords) may be programmed.

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IDENTITY CARDS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 4)

   

Mr Secretary Clarke
Mr Geoffrey Hoon
That the following provisions shall apply to the Identity Cards Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Orders of 28th June, 12th July and 18th October 2005 (Identity Cards Bill (Programme), Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2) and Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 3)):

Consideration of Lords Amendments

    1.   Proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption at this day's sitting.

    2.   The proceedings shall be taken in the order shown in the first column of the following Table.

    3.   Each part of those proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table.

TABLE

Lords Amendments

Time for conclusion of proceedings

Amendments Nos 19 to 21 and 23

One and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments

Amendments Nos. 16 and 22

One and a half hours after the commencement of the proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments Nos. 16 and 22 or the moment of interruption, whichever is the earlier

Nos. 1, 68 to 70, 4, 47, 48, 50, 51, 3, 2, 5 to 15, 17, 18, 24 to 46, 49, 52 to 67, 71 and 72

The moment of interruption.

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Prepared 13 Feb 2006