No. 26

The House met at 10.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Private Bills [Lords]: Manchester City Council Bill [Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords]: Revival Motion (Standing Order 188B relating to Private Business)

    Order read for resuming the adjourned Debate on the Question (15 January), That the promoters of the Manchester City Council Bill [Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords], which were originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2006-07 on 21 January 2007, may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).

    Objection taken to further proceeding.

    Debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 12 February.

2 Private Bills: Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill: Revival Motion (Standing Order 188B relating to Private Business)

    Order read for resuming the adjourned Debate on the Question (15 January), That the promoters of the Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill, which were originally introduced in this House in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008, may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).

    Objection taken to further proceeding.

    Debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 12 February.

3 Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

    (2) the honourable Member representing the Church Commissioners

    (3) the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission

    (4) the honourable Member representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

4 Statements: (1) The Speaker

    (2) Business (Leader of the House)

    (3) Binyam Mohamed (Secretary David Miliband)

5 Sri Lanka (Topical Debate)

    Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the matter of Sri Lanka.—(Bill Rammell.)

    An hour and a half after the commencement of proceedings, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 24A(2)).

6 Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the matter of Afghanistan and Pakistan.—(Secretary David Miliband.)

    At 6.00pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

7 Public Petition

    A Public Petition from residents of Brancepeth Village, County Durham, and others relating to traffic management (County Durham) was presented and read by Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods.

8 Adjournment

    Subject: Prejudice and mental health (Mr Charles Walker)

    Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Frank Roy.)

Adjourned at 6.26 pm until Monday 9 February.

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Other proceedings

General Committees: Reports

9 Coroners and Justice Bill

    Frank Cook (Chairman) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.

    Written evidence to be published.

10 Policing and Crime Bill Committee

    Sir Nicholas Winterton (Chairman) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.

    Written evidence to be published.

11 Saving Gateway Accounts Bill

    David Taylor (Chairman) reported the Bill with Amendments.

    Written evidence (reported on 3 February) to be printed.

    Bill, as amended, to be considered on Monday 9 February; and to be printed (Bill 57).

12 Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee

    Mr David Wilshire (Chairman) reported the draft Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997 (Amnesty Period) Order 2009.

Reports from Select Committees

13 Health Committee

    Patient Safety: Evidence, to be printed (HC 151-iii) (Mr Kevin Barron).

14 Public Administration (Select Committee on)

    Official Statistics: Publication of Statistics relating to Knife Crime: Evidence, to be printed (HC 229-i) (Dr Tony Wright).

Michael J. Martin

Speaker

Mr Speaker will take the Chair at 2.30 pm.

Sitting in Westminster Hall

No. 15

Minutes of Proceedings

The sitting began at 2.30 pm.

Adjournment

    Subject: Fifth Report from the Justice Committee, Session 2007-08, Towards effective sentencing, and the Government's response.

    Motion made and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.—(Mr Bob Blizzard.)

    Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(11)).

Adjourned at 5.30 pm until Tuesday 10 February.

Alan Haselhurst

Deputy Speaker

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Civil Aviation

    Aerodromes (Designation) (Chargeable Air Services) (Revocation) Order 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 189), dated 30 January 2009 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Geoff Hoon).

2 Income Tax

    Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 199), dated 4 February 2009 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Stephen Timms).

Other Papers:

3 Broadcasting

    The efficiency of radio production at the BBC: Review by the Comptroller and Auditor General presented to the BBC Trust's Finance and Compliance Committee (by Command) (Secretary Andy Burnham).

4 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minute, dated 5 February 2009, concerning the gifting of personal protective equipment to the Lebanese Armed Forces (by Command) (Secretary David Miliband).

5 Statistics and Registration Service

    Response from the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor to the notification from the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority in relation to statistics on race and the criminal justice system, judicial and court statistics, and statistics on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in central government (by Act) (Secretary Jack Straw).