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HEALTH BILL (PROGRAMME)
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 83A(6) (Programme motions),
Proceedings in Standing Committee
2. Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 10th January 2006.
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.
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.—[Tony Cunningham.]
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HEALTH BILL [MONEY]
Queen's recommendation having been signified—
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 52(1)(a), (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills),
That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Health Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
(b) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment.—[Tony Cunningham.]
DELEGATED LEGISLATION
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6) (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation),
That the draft Asylum (Designated States) (No. 2) Order 2005, which was laid before this House on 24th October, be approved.—[Tony Cunningham.]
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6) (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation),
That the draft European Forest Institute (Legal Capacities) Order 2005, which was laid before this House on 26th October, be approved.
That the draft European Court of Human Rights (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 2005, which was laid before this House on 3rd November, be approved.—[Tony Cunningham.]
EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 119(9) (European Standing Committees),
That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 12790/05 and Addendum 1, Commission Communication: Reducing the Climate Change Impact of Aviation; welcomes the work of the European Commission in taking forward the work programme on reducing the climate change impact of aviation; and supports the Government's approach to continuing to press for the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter.—[Tony Cunningham.]
TAX LAW REWRITE BILLS(JOINT COMMITTEE)
That Mr Kenneth Clarke, Mr Nick Clegg, John Healey, Kali Mountford, Mr Andy Reed, Mark Tami and Peter Viggers be members of the Select Committee appointed to join with a Committee of the Lords as the Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills.—[Gillian Merron, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]
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PETITIONS
BUPA Care Services
10 pm
Mr. Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow) (Lab): I would like to present a petition on behalf of my constituent, Mrs. Dee Sedgwick, about the care given to her mother, Mrs. Joan Gaddes, a resident in a care home for the elderly owned by BUPA Care Services. The petition states:
Wherefore your Petitioner prays that your Honourable House will urge this Government to take effective steps to bring BUPA to account and that the avoidable suffering and death of a dearly loved mother is not so easily excused in future.
Scottish Regiments Campaign
10.1 pm
Mr. Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): I take enormous pleasure in presenting a petition on behalf of Andrew Nigel Hamilton of 16, Lynedoch place, Edinburgh and formerly of the Black Watch. He makes material observations to the effect that the abolition of the Scottish regiments is disgraceful and counter-productive. He make the point that the collapse in recruitment to the Scottish division amply demonstrates that the Government's policy is leading not just to a betrayal of tradition but an operational disaster for the Scottish division. Some 165,000 people in Scotland and far beyond have endorsed the petition, which will be taken to Downing street tomorrow. It states:
Declares that Her Majesty's loyal army is at "overstretch" and is also facing the hitherto unforeseen threat to her country's homeland security posed by the London suicide bombers.
To re-examine with immediate effect, by means of a Defence Review, its decision to reduce the number of infantry battalions from 40 to 36.
To cancel, subject to the outcome of the Defence Review, the decision to amalgamate The Royal Scots regiment with the King's Own Scottish Borderers regiment.
To cancel the decision to replace the six historic Scottish infantry regiment with a single large regiment.
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Mines Rescue Service
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Dhanda]
10.3 pm
David Taylor (North-West Leicestershire) (Lab/Co-op): The main town in the constituency of North-West Leicestershire is Coalville—a place created by an industry that provided it with work, shaped its community, fashioned its landscape and gave it its name. My constituency office is close to the town centre and just a few hundred yards from the old No. 5 pit of Whitwick colliery. In the early hours of 19 April 1898, 42 men were in that pit when a fire broke out, 34 of whom were cut off and perished. Of the eight men who escaped by the main roadway or by the return airway, one bravely returned to the smoke and fumes in an attempt to help his workmates, but tragically he, too, died. That man, Charles Clamp, a 27-year-old onsetter, was heroically doing a job that has developed in the past century into a key role in the modern-day Mines Rescue Service, the courage, skill, knowledge and professionalism of which are renowned wherever coal has been mined in our nation.
I was privileged to unveil a statue on the centenary of that worst disaster in the history of the Leicestershire coalfield, and ever since then I have kept in touch with the MRS through visits to its original local headquarters in Ashby and its modern base at nearby Moira. Generations of mining communities have looked to the MRS and its predecessors for assistance. Now the MRS needs our help as it carves out a new future in a country with just a handful of remaining deep mines. Tonight's debate will summarise its present position and the options available to us.
Following the privatisation of the mining industry by the previous Conservative Administration, the Mines Rescue Service was formed on 17 January 1996 for the purpose of taking over the operations of the Mines Rescue Service and associated activities previously undertaken by the British Coal Corporation. Its turnover in the year to 31 March 2005, including £2.5 million from the Coal Authority, was around £6 million and its operating costs were £7.1 million. The MRS has, over the past nine years, followed a strategy designed to counteract the decline in membership fees paid by the coal mines by increasing other income earned by its employees.
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