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Summary Agenda Tuesday 16 June 2009

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Summary Agenda
2.30 pm
Prayers.
Afterwards
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice, including at 3.15 pm Topical Questions.
3.30 pm
Urgent Questions (if any); Ministerial Statements, including on Digital Britain Report.
Afterwards
European Affairs (Motion) (may continue until 10.00 pm).
 
Statutory Redundancy Pay (Amendment) Bill (Money Resolution) (may continue for up to 45 minutes).
 
Statutory Instrument (Motion for approval) (without debate).
At the end of the sitting
Adjournment Debate: Armstrong Group pension fund (Mr Graham Stuart) (until 10.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

 
Sitting in Westminster Hall
 
General Debates:
9.30 am
Future of Heathrow Airport expansion (Adam Afriyie).
11.00 am
Addiction to prescription and over-the-counter medicines (Dr Brian Iddon).
12.30 pm
Funding of UK Deaf Sport (Mr Iain Duncan Smith).
1.00 pm
Future regulation of the minerals and food supplement sector (Mr Mark Todd).
1.30 pm
Aerosol technology and climate change (Tom Brake) (until 2.00 pm).

MEMORANDUM
BALLOT FOR THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER, MONDAY 22 JUNE
 

Introduction

1. The procedure for election of a Speaker by secret ballot is set out in detail in Standing Order No. 1B, which was agreed by the House on 22 March 2001, following recommendations by the Procedure Committee in its 2nd Report of Session 2000-01 (HC 40).

Nominations

2. Nominations should be submitted in writing to the Lower Table Office between 9.30 am and 10.30 am on the day of the election. To be valid, nominations must contain a signed statement from the candidate declaring willingness to stand, and must be signed by not fewer than 12 nor more than 15 Members, of whom at least three must have been elected to the House as members of a party other than that of the candidate (or as members of no party). No Member may sign more than one statement of nomination—and if any Member does so, their signature will be invalidated for all nominations.

3, A list of validly nominated candidates will be made available by 11.00 am in the Members’ Lobby (Vote Office window) and the Division Lobbies and on the intranet. The names of those nominating a candidate are not published.

Candidates address the House

4. The House will meet at 2.30 pm, with the Senior Member in the Chair. Prayers will not be read. If there is more than one candidate a ballot is held. The candidates will address the House in turn, the order having been determined by lot drawn by the Presiding Member. The order of speaking will be announced in advance on the annunciator and the candidates will be contacted directly to inform them.

The Ballot

5. The start of the first ballot will be declared by the Presiding Member after the conclusion of the candidates’ addresses and the ballot will run for half an hour from that time. Members with surnames A to K should vote in the Aye Lobby, entering the doors behind the Speaker’s Chair; Members with surnames starting L to Z should vote in the No Lobby, entering the doors off the Members’ Lobby. Only one entrance to each lobby will be open. Members will have their name recorded at temporary division desks before being issued with a ballot paper from a station set up further down the lobby. The ballot paper will give the names of candidates in alphabetical order. Members should approach the division desks in three queues as follows.
In the Aye Lobby:
Surnames beginning with A to C
Surnames beginning with D to G
Surnames beginning with H to K

 
In the No Lobby:
Surnames beginning with L to O
Surnames beginning with P to S
Surnames beginning with T to Z

6. Members should complete the ballot paper at one of the stations erected in the lobby, and then deposit it in the ballot box at the exit from the lobby. Members may vote for only one candidate.

7. The ballot will be open for half an hour at which point the entry doors to the lobby will be locked. All Members in the lobby when the doors are locked will be allowed to vote.

8. It is expected that the counting of the first ballot will take approximately one hour.

9. As soon as counting is complete the House will be summoned. The Presiding Member will announce the number of votes cast for each candidate. If one has received more than half of the votes cast, the question will be put “that [that Member] do take the Chair of the House as Speaker”. Otherwise the House will proceed to a second ballot. At this stage no new nominations may be received. A new ballot paper will be prepared without the names of (a) the candidates who received the fewest votes, (b) any candidate who received less than 5 per cent. of the votes cast in the previous ballot, and (c) any candidate who within ten minutes of the announcement of the result of the previous ballot has notified the Presiding Member of an intention to withdraw.

10. The next ballot will be opened as soon as possible after the announcement of the result of the previous ballot. The timing will appear on the annunciator. Again, the ballot will be open for half an hour.

11. Successive ballots will be held until either one candidate receives more than half the votes cast or the elimination or withdrawal of other candidates leaves only one candidate on the ballot paper. The question will then be put “that [that Member] do take the Chair of the House as Speaker”. If that question is agreed, the Member will then take the Chair as Speaker-elect.

12. For further information please contact Chris Stanton, Clerk of Divisions: 020 7219 3253; stantonc@parliament.uk.

 

 

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