House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
21st October 2010
No. 55
The House met at 10.30 am.
PRAYERS.
1
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
2
Business Question (Leader of the House)
3
Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Philip Davies, supported by Mr David Davis, Mr Peter Lilley, Mr John Whittingdale, Mr Greg Knight, Mr Graham Brady, Mr Christopher Chope, Mr David Nuttall and Mr Philip Hollobone, presented a Bill to prohibit the use of affirmative and positive action in recruitment and appointment processes; to repeal the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 21 October 2011, and to be printed (Bill 82).
4
Further and Higher Education (Access) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to make provision to require all institutions of further and higher education in receipt of public funds to allocate places on merit; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 4 March 2011, and to be printed (Bill 83).
5
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to reduce the duties on employers to report matters under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 17 December, and to be printed (Bill 84).
6
Compensation (Limitation) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to prevent conditional fee agreement success fees and after the event insurance premiums being recoverable from the losing party in civil litigation; to facilitate damages-based agreements for contingency fees in respect of successful litigants; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 18 March 2011, and to be printed (Bill 85).
7
Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall, Mr Greg Knight and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to extend the powers of the Local Government Ombudsman to provide redress against local authorities which unreasonably ban events on the grounds of health and safety.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 18 March 2011, and to be printed (Bill 86).
8
Low Hazard Workplaces (Risk Assessment Exemption) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to exempt employers from the requirement to produce a written risk assessment in respect of low hazard workplaces and the premises of those working from their own home with low hazard equipment.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 24 June 2011, and to be printed (Bill 87).
9
Self-Employment (Risk Assessment Exemption) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to exempt self-employed persons engaged in low hazard activity from the requirement to produce a written risk assessment.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 1 July 2011, and to be printed (Bill 88).
10
Health and Safety Consultants (Qualifications) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to introduce qualification requirements for health and safety consultants; to provide accreditation for such consultants; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 8 July 2011, and to be printed (Bill 89).
11
Criminal Records (Public Access) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall, Mr Greg Knight and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to facilitate access by members of the public to the registers of the Criminal Records Office.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 13 May 2011, and to be printed (Bill 90).
12
Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) (Amendment) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall, Mr Greg Knight and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to abolish the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 20 May 2011, and to be printed (Bill 91).
13
Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to amend the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in respect of systems of risk assessment; to make provision for separate requirements for play, leisure and work-based activities; to introduce simplified risk assessments for schools; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 15 July 2011, and to be printed (Bill 92).
14
Sale of Park Homes Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall, Mr Greg Knight and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to facilitate the sale of park homes by residential owners; to restrict the ability of site owners to interfere in such sales; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 1 April 2011, and to be printed (Bill 93).
15
Volunteering Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to make provision to promote volunteering; to enable potential volunteers to obtain a fit and proper person certificate for their activities; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 10 June 2011, and to be printed (Bill 94).
16
Road Traffic Accident (Personal Injury) (Amendment) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall, Mr Greg Knight and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to raise to £25,000 the upper limit for awards for road traffic accident personal injury claims introduced under the simplified claims procedure.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 11 March 2011, and to be printed (Bill 95).
17
National Health Service Redress (Amendment) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Mr Christopher Chope, supported by Mr Peter Bone, Philip Davies, Mr Philip Hollobone, Mr David Nuttall and Priti Patel, presented a Bill to amend the National Health Service Redress Act 2006 to facilitate faster resolution of claims and reduce costs; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 9 September 2011, and to be printed (Bill 96).
18
Local Government Bill [Lords] Bill: Second Reading
Bill read a second time.
19
Local Government Bill [Lords] (Programme)
Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Local Government Bill [Lords]:
Committal
1. The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.
Proceedings in Public Bill Committee
2. Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 4 November 2010.
3. The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.
Consideration and Third Reading
4. Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.
5. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.
6. Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.
Other proceedings
7. Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of any message from the Lords) may be programmed.-(Robert Neill.)
Question agreed to.
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Adjournment
Subject: Health services in North East London (Mike Gapes).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Philip Dunne.)
Adjourned at 4.13 pm until tomorrow.
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Other proceedings
General Committees: Reports
21
European Committee B in respect of European Union Document No. 12346/10, relating to a draft Directive amending Directive 97/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on Investor-Compensation Schemes
Hugh Bayley (Chair) reported the following Resolution:
That the Committee considers the draft Directive to amend the Investor-Compensation Schemes Directive does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity, for the reasons set out in the Annex to chapter 7 of the Third Report of the European Scrutiny Committee (HC 428-iii); and in accordance with article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, instructs the Clerk of the House to forward this reasoned opinion to the presidents of the European institutions.
General Committees: Appointments
The Speaker appoints the Chair of General Committees and members of Programming Sub-Committees, and allocates Statutory Instruments to Delegated Legislation Committees.
The Committee of Selection nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees).
22
First Delegated Legislation Committee (Alcoholic Liquor Duties (Definition of Cider) Order 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 1914))
Members: Mr Nigel Dodds and Mark Hendrick discharged and Jim Shannon and Mr Virendra Sharma nominated in substitution.
Reports from Select Committees
23
Foreign Affairs Committee
(1) Overseas Territories: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Previously unpublished written evidence submitted to the Committee: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) The UK’s Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: Written evidence, to be published
(Richard Ottaway).
24
International Development Committee
The 2010 Millennium Development Goals Review Summit:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 534-i);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Malcolm Bruce).
25
Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Lessons from the process of government formation after the 2010 General Election:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 528-ii);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Mrs Eleanor Laing).
26
Welsh Affairs Committee
The implications for Wales of the Government’s proposals on constitutional reform: First Report, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report, and written evidence reported and ordered to be published on 14 October (HC 495) (David T.C. Davies).
John Bercow
Speaker
The Speaker will take the Chair at 9.30 am.
Sitting in Westminster Hall
No. 33
The sitting began at 2.30 pm.
Adjournment
Subject: Cutting crime: the case for justice reinvestment-First Report from the Justice Committee, Session 2009–10, and the Government response.
Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Mr Crispin Blunt.)
Adjourned at 5.29 pm until Tuesday 26 October.
Lindsay Hoyle
Deputy Speaker
APPENDIX
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Draft Legislative Reform Order:
1
Regulatory Reform
Draft Legislative and Regulatory Reform (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution:
2
Constitutional Law
(1) Draft National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Cheryl Gillan);
(2) draft National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Limit on Referendum Expenses Etc.) Order 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Cheryl Gillan); and
(3) draft National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Referendum Question, Date of Referendum Etc.) Order 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Cheryl Gillan).
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
3
Education
Education (Student Support) Regulations 2009 (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2546), dated 18 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).
4
European Communities
Structural Funds (National Assembly for Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2567), dated 19 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).
5
National Health Service
(1) National Health Service Bodies (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2538), dated 14 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Secretary Lansley); and
(2) Primary Care Trusts (Membership, Procedure and Administration Arrangements) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2539), dated 14 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Secretary Lansley).
6
Public Health
Health Protection Agency (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2540), dated 14 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Secretary Lansley).
Other Papers:
7
Administration of Justice
Account of Funds in Court in England and Wales for 2009–10, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 531) (Clerk of the House).
8
Treasury
Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Treasury Committee, Session 2009–10, on The failure of the Presbyterian Mutual Society (by Command) (Cm. 7959) (Mark Hoban).
CORRIGENDUM
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Item 14 should have read:
Foreign Affairs Committee
The UK’s Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: Evidence, to be printed (HC 514-ii) (Richard Ottaway).
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