General Committees

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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

Corporation Tax Bill (G) tbc This Issue

Energy Bill (G) 21.01.2010 This Issue

Financial Services Bill (G) 10.12.2009 Issue 3

Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill (G) tbc This Issue

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

Membership announcements and changes:

Welsh Grand Committee: Chairman - Mr Martin Caton

Corporation Tax Bill Second Reading Committee:

Chairman: Mr Clive Betts

Charlotte Atkins Lyn Brown Dr Vincent Cable Ann Clwyd

Mr Geoffrey Cox Mrs Ann Cryer Frank Dobson Mr Mark Field

Mr David Gauke Mr Oliver Heald David Lepper Mr Brooks Newmark

Dr John Pugh Mr Geoffrey Robinson Mr Andy Slaughter Mr Stephen Timms

Energy Bill Committee:

Chairmen: Hugh Bayley and Mr Peter Atkinson

Mr Brian Binley Mr Tobias Ellwood Natascha Engel Charles Hendrey

Simon Hughes Mr David Kidney Steve McCabe Anne Main

Judy Mallaber John Robertson Joan Ruddick Emily Thornberry

Paddy Tipping Derek Twigg Mr Mike Weir Dr Alan Whitehead

Bill Wiggin Phil Willis

Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill Second Reading Committee:

Chairman: Mr Gary Streeter

Mr Peter Ainsworth Mr Graham Allen Mr Richard Bacon Lorely Burt

Dr Vincent Cable Mr Jim Devine Paul Flynn Mr David Gauke

Kerry McCarthy Mr Paul Murphy Mr Brooks Newmark Albert Owen

Mr Gordon Prentice John Reid Chloe Smith Mr Stephen Timms

General Committee Meetings
7 - 11 December 2009

Abbreviations:

PBC       Public Bill Committee

SCR      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 7 December

1st DLC      Cancelled

2nd DLC      Draft Real Estate Investment Trusts (Prescribed Arrangements) Regulations 2009

EC A      EU Document No. 14738/09 and Addendum 1 relating to the draft Council Regulation on Fisheries catch quotas for 2010

Tuesday 8 December

PBC      Financial Services Bill

3rd DLC      Draft Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009

4th DLC       Non-Domestic Rating (Deferred Payments) (England) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 1597)

5th DLC      Draft Corporation Tax (Exclusion from Short-Term Loan Relationships) Regulations 2009

6th DLC      Business Rate Supplements (Rateable Value Condition) (England) Regulations 2009

(S.I., 2009, No. 2542)

7th DLC Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (1996 Hague Convention on Protection of Children etc.) Order 2009

EC A EU Document No. 11892/09 relating to Measures to safeguard security of gas supply

Wednesday 9 December

8th DLC Draft Climate Change Levy (Solid Fuel) (Revocation) Regulations 2009

9th DLC Motion in the name of Ms Harriet Harman relating to the House of Commons Members Fund

Thursday 10 December

PBC Financial Services Bill, 9.00am & 1.00pm

Friday 11 December

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

Forthcoming General Committee Meetings
14 - 18 December 2009

Abbreviations:

Monday 14 December

1st DLC Draft Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) Regulations 2009, 4.30pm, Room 9

2nd DLC Motion in the name of Ms Harriet Harman relating to the Electoral Commission, 4.30pm, Room 11

Tuesday 15 December

SRC      Corporation Tax Bill, 10.00am, Room 11

PBC      Financial Services Bill, 10.30am & 4.00pm, Room 12

SRC      Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill, 4.30pm, Room 14

3rd DLC      Draft Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) (No. 3) Order 2009, 10.30am, Room 9

4th DLC      Draft Banking Act 2009 (Exclusion of Insurers) Order 2009, 4.30pm, Room 9

5th DLC      Draft Amendment to Schedule 6 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Order 2009, the Draft Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2009 and the Draft Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2009, 4.30pm, Room 10

6th DLC      Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 1371), 4.30pm,

Room 11

Wednesday 16 December

WGC Government's Legislative Programme as outlined in the Queen's Speech as it relates to Wales and Government expenditure in Wales, 9.25am & 2.00pm, Room 14