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Weekly Information Bulletin: 21st July 2007

General Committees

Factsheets on the Parliament website: http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/factsheets.cfm

Public Bill Committee debates on the Parliament website: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/stand.htm

Other General Committee debates: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/othstn.htm

Current Public Bill Committees, details of membership

Bill     Status     Membership     
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill (G)          Issue 28 p36; This Issue p36     
Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill [HL] (G)     26.4.2007     Issue 16 p38     
Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill (P)          This issue p36     
Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill (G)     18.1.2007     Issue 6 p34     
Finance Bill     17.5.2007     Issue 19 p37; Issue 20 p33     
Financial Mutuals Arrangements Bill (B7)          Issue 17 p38     
Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill [HL]          Issue 28 p36; This Issue p36     
Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill (G)     14.12.2006     Issue 4 p31     
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill (P)          Issue 9 p35     
Further Education and Training [HL] (G)          Issue 22 p37; Issue 23, p36     
Greater London Authority Bill (G)     23.1.2007     Issue 5 p32      
Income Tax Bill (G)          Issue 6 p34     
Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill (G)     25.1.2007     Issue 6 p34     
Legal Services Bill [HL] (G)          Issue 23, p36     
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (G)     8.3.2007     Issue 8 p34     
Mental Health Bill [HL] (G)     15.5.2007     Issue 17 p38; Issue 18 p40     
Offender Management Bill (G)     25.1.2007     Issue 5 p32      
Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill (P)          Issue 24, p37; This Issue p36     
Parliament (Joint Departments) [HL] (G)          Issue 22 p37     
Pensions Bill (G)     8.2.2007     Issue 7 p34     
Planning-gain Supplement (Preparations) Bill (G)     1.2.2007     Issue 8 p34     
Serious Crime Bill [HL]          Issue 25, p37; This issue p36     
Statistics and Registration Service Bill (G)     25.1.2007     Issue 6 p34     
Sustainable Communities Bill (B1)          Issue 11 p37; Issue16 p38; Issue 18 p40     
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill     27.3.2007     Issue 13 p39     
UK Borders Bill (G)     22.3.2007     Issue 10 p36     
Vehicle Registration Marks Bill (B10)          Issue 16 p38     
Welfare Reform Bill (G)     30.11.2006     Issue 2 p29     

Dates in italics denote expected reporting date of Public Bill Committee as stated in the Programme Motion if made

Membership:

Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill:

Rosie Cooper discharged; Mrs Anne McGuire added.

Forced Marriage and Civil Protection Bill:

Margaret Moran discharged; Martin Linton added


General Committee Meetings
16 - 20 July 2007

Monday 16 July

ESC     EU Documents Nos.6801/07 - 6809/07, 6812/07 - 6819/07 and corrigendum 1, 6820/07, 6821/07, 6823/07 and 7863/07 - 7867/07 relating to stability and convergence programmes     
1st DLC     Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Stabilisation and Association Agreement) (Republic of Albania) Order 2007     
11th DLC     Draft Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2007     
12th DLC     Draft Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007     


Tuesday 17 July

PBC     Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee (1st and 2nd Sittings: the following witnesses gave oral evidence - James Plaskitt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions; Stephen Geraghty, Chief Executive, Child Support Agency; Hilary Renolds, Director. Child Maintenance Redesign Programme; Professor Nick Wikeley, John Wilson Chair in Law, University of Southampton; Janet Allbeson, One Parent Families     
PBC     Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill [HL] (1st and 2nd Sittings; Clauses 1-4 agreed; Schedules 1 & 2 agreed)     
ESC     EU Documents 9773/07 and 9776/07 relating to Migration     
2nd DLC     Draft Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Amendment) Order 2007     
3rd DLC     Draft Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) (Amendment) Order 2007     
4th DLC     Draft Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment etc.) (General Qualifications Bodies) (Alteration of Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2007     
15th DLC     To consider a Motion in Respect of the Electoral Commission in the name of Ms Harriet Harman     
5th DLC     Draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data: Code of Practice) Order 2007 and Draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Investigation of Protected Electronic Information: Code of Practice) Order 2007     
6th DLC     Draft Financial Assistance for Industry (Increase of Limit) Order 2007     


Wednesday 18 July

PBC     Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill (2nd Sitting: Clauses 2-4 agreed; Schedule agreed)     
7th DLC     Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2007     
8th DLC     Revised Funding Code prepared by the Legal Services Commission     
9th DLC     Draft International Fund for Agricultural Development (Seventh Replenishment) Order 2007     
10th DLC     Draft Verification of Information Passport Applications Etc. (Specified Persons) Order 2007     


Thursday 19 July

PBC     Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill (3rd and 4th Sittings: Clauses 1-5 agreed; Schedule 1 agreed)     
11th DLC     Draft Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Amendments to Schedule 2) Order 2007     


Friday 20 July

None

Please note: The time and location of general committee meetings may be changed at short notice. This list is correct as at press (12 noon Friday). Recorded information about forthcoming select and general committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on Tel: 020 7219 2033. Further enquiries may be made to the Committee Office general enquiry lines, Tel: 020 7219 3267/4300/0284


Forthcoming General Committee Meetings
23 - 26 July 2007

Monday 23 July

ESC     EU Document Nos. 13401/06 and Addenda 1 and 2 and 13388/06 relating to Soil Protection, 4.30 p.m, Room 10     
12th DLC     Draft Asylum (Designated States) Order 2007, 4.30pm, Room 9     
13th DLC     Draft Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 2007, 4.30 p.m, Room 11     
14th DLC     Draft Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007, 4.30 p.m, Room 12     


Tuesday 24 July

PBC     Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, 10.30 a.m. & 4.00 p.m, Room 10     
1st DLC     To consider that this House authorises the Secretary of State to pay, by way of financial assistance under section 8 of the Industrial Development Act 1982, in respect of post office network change to 2011, a sum exceeding £10 million and £465 million to Post Office Ltd, 4.30 p.m, Room 9     


Wednesday 25 July

None


Thursday 26 July

None

Please note: The time and location of general committee meetings may be changed at short notice. This list is correct as at press (12 noon Friday). Recorded information about forthcoming select and general committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on Tel: 020 7219 2033. Further enquiries may be made to the Committee Office general enquiry lines, Tel: 020 7219 3267/4300/0284

 
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