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Weekly Information Bulletin: 24th October 2009

General Committees

General Committee debates are available to view on the Parliament website.

Public Bill Committee debates. www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/stand.htm

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

For further information on General Committees see HCIO Factsheet L6 produced by the House of Commons Information Office, available in hardcopy on request or to download from the Parliament website.

Current Public Bill Committees, details of membership

Bill

Status Membership
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill (G) Reported Issue 9
Autism Bill (B1) Reported Issue 15
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL] (G) Reported Issue 20; Issue 21
Business Rate Supplements Bill (G) Reported Issue 4
Child Poverty Bill (G) 3/11/09 Issue 27
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill (B6) Reported Issue 19; Issue 20
Coroners and Justice Bill (G) Reported Issue 6
Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill (P) Reported Issue 27
Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill (P) Reported Issue 23
Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers)
Bill (P)
Reported Issue 21
Equality Bill (G) Reported Issue 18; Issue 19; Issue 21; Issue 22
Finance Bill (G) Reported Issue 18; Issue 19; Issue 21; Issue 22
Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (B7) Reported Issue 22; Issue 23
Health Bill [HL] (G) Reported Issue 21; Issue 23
Holocaust (Stolen Art) Restitution Bill (P) Reported Issue 19; Issue 20
Law Commission [HL] (L) Reported Issue 24; Issue 27
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL] (G) Reported Issue 20; Issue 21
Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL] (G) Reported Issue 23; Issue 24
Organ Donation (Presumed Consent) (B13) tba tba
Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [HL] (G) This issue
Policing and Crime Bill (G) Reported Issue 5
Saving Gateway Accounts Bill (G) Reported Issue 5
Statutory Redundancy Pay (Amendment) Bill (B3) (withdrawn) tba Issue 19; Issue 22
Welfare Reform Bill (G) Reported Issue 6
Joint Committee on Tax law Rewrite Bills

Corporation Tax Bill (G) Reported Issue 4

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

Membership announcements and changes:

Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [HL]

Chairmen: Mr Roger Gale

Mr Michael Ancram Mr Adrian Bailey Tony Baldry Mr Henry Bellingham
Barry Gardiner Mr Mike Hall Mr David Heath David Howarth
Mrs Siân C. James Mr Brian Jenkins Helen Jones Bridget Prentice
Mr Ken Purchase Sir Peter Viggers Jeremy Wright David Lepper


General Committee Meetings
19 - 23 October 2009

Abbreviations:

PBC      Public Bill Committee     
DLC     Delegated Legislation Committee     
EC      European Committee (A/B/C)     
RGC     Regional Grand Committee     
WGC     Welsh Grand Committee     
SGC     Scottish Grand Committee     

Monday 19 October

2RC     Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill (Motion, agreed to)     
1st DLC     Draft National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Social Welfare) Order 2009 and the Draft National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Exceptions to Matters) Order 2009     
3rd DLC     Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Guernsey) Order 2009; the Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Jersey) Order 2009 and the Draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tex Enforcement (Virgin Islands) Order 2009     


Tuesday 20 October

PBC     Child Poverty Bill     
4th DLC     Draft Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Higher Education Student Information) Regulations 2009     
2nd DLC     Draft Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Youth Conditional Cautions: Code of Practice) Order 2009 and the Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Conditional Cautions: Code of Practice) Order 2009     
5th DLC     Draft Caribbean Development Bank (Seventh Replenishment of the Unified Special Development Fund) Order 2009     
6th DLC     Draft ACAS Code of Practice: Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities     


Wednesday 21 October

7th DLC     Draft Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009     
8th DLC     Draft District Electoral Areas Commissioner (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2009 and the Draft Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (Amendment) Order 2009     


Thursday 22 October

PBC     Child Poverty Bill     
RGC     North West Regional Grand Committee, Building Britain's Future: the North West's response to the economic downturn, Main Ballroom Town Hall Liverpool     
     Chairmen: Mr Christopher Chope     


Friday 23 October

None


Forthcoming General Committee Meetings
26 - 30 October 2009

Abbreviations:

PBC      Public Bill Committee     
2RC     Second Reading Committee     
DLC     Delegated Legislation Committee     
EC      European Committee (A/B/C)     
RGC     Regional Grand Committee     
WGC     Welsh Grand Committee     
SGC     Scottish Grand Committee     

Monday 26 October

ECB     EU's Justice and Home Affairs Programme for the Next 5 Years (The Stockholm Programme) (11060/09), 4.30pm, Room 10     
7th DLC     To consider the Motion in the name of Secretary Jim Murphy relating to Rule 56(1) of the Parliamentary Election Rules, 4.00pm, Room 12     
1st DLC     Landfill Tax (Prescribed Landfill Site Activities) Order 2009 (S.I., 2009, No.1929), 4.30pm, Room 9     


Tuesday 27 October

PBC     Child Poverty Bill, 10.30am & 4.00pm, Room 9     
PBC     Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [HL], 4.30pm, Room 12     
2nd DLC     Draft Offshore Funds (Tax) Regulations 2009, 4.30pm, Room 11     


Wednesday 28 October

4th DLC     Financial Restrictions (Iran) Order 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 2725), 2.30pm, Room 12     
5th DLC     Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Sensitive Words and Expressions) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 2009, No.2625) and the Draft Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Public Authorities) Regulations 2009, 2.30pm, Room 9     


Thursday 29 October

PBC     Child Poverty Bill, 9.00am & 1.00pm, Room 9     
6th DLC     Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 2009, No.1541), 8.55am, Room 11     
RGC     Yorkshire and The Humber Regional Grand Committee, responding to the downturn and planning the region's future economy, 3.00pm, Town Hall, Barnsley, South Yorkshire     
     Chairmen: Mr Clive Betts     


Friday 30 October

None

Please note. This list is correct as at press (12 noon Friday).

The time and location of general committee meetings may be changed at short notice.

Further enquiries may be made to the Committee Office general enquiry lines, Tel. 020 7219 3267/4300/0284

 
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