House of Commons Public Bill Committee Proceedings

House of Commons

Session 2006 - 07
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INDEX

(References are to Standing Order numbers and Appendix pages)

Act of Parliament, proceedings under, length of debate, 16

Adjournment

amendments tabled during, 64

debates

half-hour, 9(7)

Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 116(5)

scope of

references to legislation, 30

urgent debate, 24(6)

Scottish Grand Committee, 99, 100(6)

urgent specific and important matter, 24

Welsh Grand Committee, 108(5)

dilatory motion, 34, 35, 83I(6)

general committees, 89(3)(c)

disorder, by Speaker because of, 46

earlier meeting during, 13

Friday to Monday, 11(6)

motion lapses at moment of interruption, 9(3)

papers presented during, 158, 159

periodic, 25

select committees

reports &c. during, 137

sittings during, 123

Thursday to Monday, 12(2)

when movable, 9(2)

without question put, 9(7)

Administration Committee, 139

Affirmation, 5, 6

select committee witnesses, 132

Aids and supplies, Bills of, not to be brought from Lords, 80

Allocation of time orders, 83

Business Committee, 82

business sub-committees, 120

programming of bills, 83I, 83A

Allotted days

bills, 82, 120

estimates, 54(1)

opposition business, 14(2)

Amendments

bills, to

powers of committees to consider, 65

receipt of during adjournment, 64

report stage, when authorisation required, 75

third reading, must be merely verbal, 77

early day motions, to, receipt of, 22(2)

general committees, referred to, 89(3)(a)

Lords, 78

pecuniary penalties, and, 79

non-sitting Fridays, tabled on, 12(3)

notice period in public bill committees, Appendix p 166

Queen’s Speech debate, at end of, 33

question to be proposed on, 31

selection of, 32

in general committees, 89(3)(a)

Speaker’s election, not allowed, 1B(14)

Anticipation rule, 28

Appropriation Bills

committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)

proceedings on, 56

Ballots

election of Speaker, 1B

private members’ bills, 14(6)

Bills, hybrid, 61

Bills, private

committees, service of suspended Member on, 45(2)

pecuniary penalties, &c., imposed by Lords, 78

public money standing orders, and, 53

when taken, 9(1), 11(1), 20

Bills, provisional order

committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)

hybridity rules do not apply, 61

public money standing orders, and, 53

Bills, public

See also Committee of the whole House; Committees, public bill

allocation of time to, 83

amendments. See under Amendments

carry-over, 80A

clause, new, 69

clause or schedule standing part, debate on, 68

general committees, in, 89(3)(c)

Bills, public—continued

committal, 63

motions subject to selection, 32(4)

programme orders, under, 83A, 84A(2)

committees’ powers to consider amendments, 65

consideration of report. See subheading report stage

Consolidated Fund or Appropriation, proceedings on, 56

committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)

consolidation, 58

joint committee, 140

Examiners, referred to, 61

first reading, 57, 57A

hybrid, 61

introduction of, 57

Law Commission bills, 59

and consolidation, 140(1)(d)–(1)(e)

long title amended, 65

Lords, brought from, 57A

pecuniary penalties, 79

private Members, by, 14(7)(c)

privilege, 80

public charge, creating, 50(2)

Lords amendments and reasons, 78

pecuniary penalties, 79

programming, 83F, 83G, 83H

money and ways and means resolutions on, 52

preamble postponed, 67

presentation, 57

printing, 57, 57A

private Members’

ballot, 14(6)

days for, 14(4)

precedence, 14(5)–(8)

ten-minute rule, 23

unprinted, 14(9), 90(2)

writs and, 19

programming, 83A–I

proposal of question, motions for, 29

public charge as main purpose, 50

re-committal, 72, 74

motions subject to selection, 32(4)

Bills, public—continued

report stage

amendments requiring authorisation, 75

as amended in committee of whole House, 71, 72

general committee, referred for consideration in, 92

public bill committee, bills reported from, 73

Scottish, 97

public bill committees, see Committees, public bill, Scottish

second reading

amendments to question, 62

amendment to leave out ’now’, 31(1)

bill considered in Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 113

bill considered in Scottish Grand Committee, 97(6)

bill considered in Welsh Grand Committee, 106

second reading committee, 90

Law Commission bills, 59

tax law rewrite bills, 60

tax law rewrite bills, 60

committal discharged, 60(8), 66

committal procedure does not apply, 63

joint committee, 152C

temporary laws, duration to be specified, 81

third reading

amendments to bill must be merely verbal, 77

amendments to question, 62

amendment to leave out ’now’, 31(1)

bill considered in Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 113

bill considered in Scottish Grand Committee, 97

Wales, relating to,

public bill committee composition, 86(2)(ii), 92(2)

Welsh Grand Committee, and, 106

ways and means resolution, brought in on, exempted, 15(1)(a)

Broadcasting, Select Committee on, 139

Budget Day, and ten-minute rule bills, 23(3)

Business Committee, 82

Business of the House

See also Private Business

arrangement of, 14, 27

earlier meeting of House, at, 13(2)

exemption motions, 15(2)–(6)

government business has precedence, 14(1)

Business of the House—continued

interruption of, 9(3)

and closure motions, 9(4)

and exemption motions, 15(2)–(6)

on Fridays, 11(2)(b)

not reached or disposed of, 9(5)

opposed, when taken after moment of interruption, 9(6), 15(1)

opposition parties, 14(2)–(3)

order of, 9

Fridays, 11

private Members’, 14(4)–(8)

Business sub-committees, 120

Carry-over of bills, 80A

Chairman of Ways and Means, 2, 3

See also Committee of the whole House, Deputy Speaker

Business Committee, and, 82

Committees, public bill

member of Chairmen’s Panel, 4(2)

private business, and, 20

programming committees, and, 83B

requests Temporary Chairmen to take Chair, 4(1)

Chairmen

Panel, 4(2), 85(3), 85(4)

Westminster Hall sittings, 10(5)

temporary, 4

may not—

accept closure, 36(3)

accept motion to propose question, 29(2)

select amendments, 32(2)

Church of England Measures, 118(3)(b)

Clauses, see under Bills, Public

Clerk at the Table

absence of Speaker, &c., notifies, 3

amendments to consolidation bills, receives, 58(2)

Lords bills, notified that Member will take charge, 14(7), 50(2), 57A(1),

80A(1)(b)

orders of the day

reads, 26

receives instructions to defer, 9(5)

petitions, reads, 154(3)

Clerk at the Table—continued

private Members’ bills, receives nomination of another Member to present,

14(6)

Clerk of the House

petitions, and, 156

select committee reports, and, 134

supervises ballot to elect Speaker, 1A

Closure of debate, 36

at interruption of business, 9(4)

general committees, in, 89(3)(b)

temporary chairman may not accept, 85(5)

majority required, 37

Committees, general

adjournment of, 88(2)

amendments (referral and selection), 89(3)(a)

business sub-committees, 120

chairmen, 85

closure, 89(3)(b)

constitution and membership, 84, 86

debate on clause or schedule standing part, 89(3)(c)

definition of, 84

delegated legislation, 118

dilatory motions, 83I(6), 89(3)(c)

division in House, sitting suspended for, 89(4)

irrelevance or repetition, 89

law officers, attendance of, 87

meetings, 88. See also Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh Grand

Committees

ministers, attendance of, 87

minutes of proceedings of, 89(3)(d), 89(5), 128, 129

public, members of, admission of, 89(2), 91, 161(2)

quorum, 89(1), 89(3)(d), 117(4), 119(4)

See also Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh Grand Committees

Regional Affairs, 97(5), 117

report stage, for, 92

second reading committee, 90

Law Commission bills, 59

tax law rewrite bills, 60

Wales, bills relating to, for, 92(2)

Committees, grand, see Northern Ireland Grand Committee, Scottish Grand

Committee, Welsh Grand Committee

Committees, joint

Human Rights, 152B

motions to commit bills to, 63(2)

Statutory Instruments, 151

Tax Law Rewrite Bills, 152C

Committees, private bill, service of suspended Member on, 44(5)

Committees, public bill

See also Committees, general

amendments, notice period, Appendix p 166

conclusion of proceedings under programme order, 83D

power to send for persons, papers and records, 63, 84A(3)

—under a programme motion, 83A, 84A(2)

private members’ bills, restrictions and nomination, 84A(5)

programming sub-committees, 83C

Scottish, 84A(4)

committal to, 97(5)

membership, 86(2)(i)

Wales, bill relating to, for, 86(2)(ii)

Committees, second reading, see under Committees, general

Committees, select

See also names of particular committees

chairmen

committal of bill to, 63(2)

joint sittings, for, 137A(1)(d)

term limits, for, 122A

documents, withdrawal or alteration of, 127

evidence, communication to other committees, other Parliaments etc.,

137A(1)

evidence, publication before reporting to House, 136

joint meetings, 137A

quorum at, 124(2)

lists of members, 122

Members not on committee, withdrawal of, 126

memoranda, authorising of publishing, 135

minutes of evidence

members’ names recorded in, 130, 131

power to report, 133

minutes of proceedings, 129

members’ names for attendance and voting, 128