House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Tuesday
26th October 2010
No. 58
The House met at 2.30 pm.
PRAYERS.
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Questions to (1) the Deputy Prime Minister
(2) the Attorney General
(3) the honourable Member representing the Church Commissioners, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission and the honourable Member representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission.
2
Urgent Question: Firefighters (Industrial Action) (Robert Neill)
3
Statement: Investment in Highland and Local Transport Schemes (Secretary Philip Hammond)
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Parliament (Amendment): Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23)
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make further provision to limit the size of the legislature by ensuring that the number of peers entitled to vote in the House of Lords does not exceed the number of parliamentary constituencies; to introduce a statutory limit on the number of Ministers, Whips and Parliamentary Private Secretaries in each House of Parliament; and to set a maximum proportion of Ministers, Whips and Parliamentary Private Secretaries in the total membership of each House of Parliament;
That Mr Christopher Chope, Mr Graham Brady, Mr Richard Shepherd, Mrs Eleanor Laing, Mr Mark Field, Mr Andrew Turner, Mr Robert Syms, Martin Vickers, Mr Philip Hollobone, Graham Stringer, Tristram Hunt and Mr Charles Walker present the Bill.
Mr Christopher Chope accordingly presented the Bill.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 4 March 2011, and to be printed (Bill 97).
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Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill: Second Reading
Motion made and Question put, That the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill be now read a second time.
The House divided.
Division No. 101.
Ayes: 318 (Tellers: Stephen Crabb, Mark Hunter).
Noes: 224 (Tellers: Stephen Pound, Mr David Anderson).
Question accordingly agreed to and Bill read a second time.
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Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill (Programme)
Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill:
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 11 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 Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the Lords) may be programmed.-(Mr Brooks Newmark.)
Question agreed to.
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Deferred Divisions
Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 41A(3)), That, at this day’s sitting, Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply to the Motion in the name of Justine Greening relating to Excise.-(Mr Brooks Newmark.)
Question agreed to.
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Statutory Instruments: Motion for Approval
Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the Alcoholic Liquor Duties (Definition of Cider) Order 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 1914), dated 27 July 2010, a copy of which was laid before this House on 27 July, be approved.-(Mr Brooks Newmark.)
Question agreed to.
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Adjournment
Subject: Provision of maternity services (Mr David Amess).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Brooks Newmark.)
Adjourned at 10.42 pm until tomorrow.
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Other proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
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Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill
Order for resuming on Friday 29 October the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed on 22 October, That the Bill be now read a second time, read and discharged.
Debate to be resumed on Friday 17 June 2011.
Reports from Select Committees
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Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
(1) The Comprehensive Spending Review and its impact on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Evidence, to be printed (HC 543-i);
(2) Government Assistance to Industry: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Pub Companies: Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Adrian Bailey).
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Communities and Local Government Committee
(1) Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies: Evidence, taken on 25 October, to be printed (HC 517-ii);
(2) Localism: Written evidence, to be published.
(Clive Betts).
13
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Funding of the arts and heritage:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 464-iii);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Mr John Whittingdale).
14
Defence
Operations in Afghanistan:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 554-i);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Mr James Arbuthnot).
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Energy and Climate Change Committee
(1) UK Deepwater Drilling-Implications of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Evidence, to be printed (HC 450-iii);
(2) The effect on energy usage of extending British Summer Time: Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Tim Yeo).
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Health Committee
Public Expenditure: Evidence, to be printed (HC 512-ii) (Mr Stephen Dorrell).
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Home Affairs Committee
(1) Firearms Control: Evidence, to be printed (HC 447-ii);
(2) Policing-Police and Crime Commissioners: Evidence, to be printed (HC 511-iii);
(3) The work of the Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary: Evidence, to be printed (HC 548-i)
(Keith Vaz).
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Human Rights (Joint Committee on)
(1) Legislative scrutiny: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Human rights judgments: Written evidence, to be published
(Dr Hywel Francis).
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International Development Committee
(1) Appointment of the Chief Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Aid Impact: First Report, with Appendices, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 551-I and -II);
(2) The 2010 Millennium Development Goals Review Summit: Evidence, to be printed (HC 534-ii);
(Malcolm Bruce).
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Justice Committee
The work of the Lord Chief Justice: Evidence, to be printed (HC 521-i) (Sir Alan Beith).
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Public Accounts (Committee of)
(1) Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation: Third Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 470);
(2) Financing PFI projects in the credit crisis and the Treasury’s response: Evidence, to be printed (HC 553-i)
(Margaret Hodge).
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Transport Committee
Performance of the Department for Transport: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2009–10: Third Special Report, to be printed (HC 549) (Mrs Louise Ellman).
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Treasury Committee
(1) Financial Regulation:
(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 430-vi);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Competition and choice in the banking sector: Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Andrew Tyrie).
John Bercow
Speaker
The Speaker will take the Chair at 11.30 am.
Sitting in Westminster Hall
No. 34
The sitting began at 9.30 am.
Adjournment
Subjects:
Mental health of infants (Andrea Leadsom).
Regeneration of coalfield communities (Lisa Nandy).
Natural England (Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger).
Missing persons (Ann Coffey).
Effect of incinerators on local communities (Fiona Bruce).
Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(James Duddridge.)
Adjourned at 1.59 pm until tomorrow.
Lindsay Hoyle
Deputy Speaker
APPENDIX
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution:
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Environmental Protection
Draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
2
Aggregates Levy
Aggregates Levy (Northern Ireland Tax Credit) (Revocation) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2598), dated 25 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Justine Greening).
3
Child Trust Funds
Child Trust Funds (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 2599), dated 25 October 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mark Hoban).
Other Papers:
4
European Parliament (Representation)
Recommendation by the Electoral Commission on the Allocation of the additional MEP awarded to the UK under the Treaty of Lisbon (by Act) (The Deputy Prime Minister).
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Mental Health
Report of the Care Quality Commission on Monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act in 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley).
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMITTEE
The Speaker has nominated the following Members to serve on the Ecclesiastical Committee during this Parliament pursuant to section 2(2) of the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919:
Tony Baldry, Sir Stuart Bell, Peter Bottomley, Mr Ben Bradshaw, Mr Frank Field, Helen Goodman, Sir Alan Haselhurst, Mr Oliver Heald, Mrs Sharon Hodgson, Simon Hughes, Mr David Lammy, Mr Gordon Marsden, Patrick Mercer, Andrew Selous and Mr Gary Streeter.
CORRIGENDA
Wednesday 20 October
Item 15 should have read:
Science and Technology Committee
Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 498-i);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Andrew Miller).
Thursday 21 October
In the Appendix the paper shown below appeared as Item 1, under the heading "Draft Legislative Reform Order"; it should have appeared as Item 2, under the heading "Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution".
Regulatory Reform Draft Legislative and Regulatory Reform (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).
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