House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Wednesday
12th January 2011
No. 96
The House met at 11.30 am.
PRAYERS.
1
Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for International Development
(2) the Prime Minister
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Dairy Farming: Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23)
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the minimum prices payable to dairy farmers for the production of milk; to establish minimum distances between intensive dairy farming operations and the nearest settlements; and for connected purposes;
That Stephen Phillips, Mr Roger Gale, Martin Horwood and Robert Flello present the Bill.
Stephen Phillips accordingly presented the Bill.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 10 June, and to be printed (Bill 131).
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Postal Services Bill: Consideration of the Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee
New Clause NC2-(Bob Russell)-brought up, and read the first time.
Question put, That the Clause be read a second time.
The House divided.
Division No. 163.
Ayes: 250 (Tellers: Bob Russell, Mr Mike Weir).
Noes: 308 (Tellers: Norman Lamb, Jeremy Wright).
Question accordingly negatived.
New Clause NC4-(Mr Mike Weir)-brought up, and read the first time.
Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time.
At 6.00 pm the debate was interrupted (Programme Order, 27 October).
The following Questions were put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83E).
(1) That the Clause be read a second time (Question already proposed from the Chair).
The House divided.
Division No. 164.
Ayes: 240 (Tellers: Dr Eilidh Whiteford, Jonathan Edwards).
Noes: 315 (Tellers: Mr Shailesh Vara, Jeremy Wright).
Question accordingly negatived.
(2) That Amendments 3 to 5 be made (single Question on Amendments moved by a Minister of the Crown).-(Mr Edward Davey.)
Question agreed to.
(3) That Amendment 23 be made (Amendment selected by the Speaker for separate decision).-(Gordon Banks.)
The House divided.
Division No. 165.
Ayes: 239 (Tellers: Phil Wilson, Graham Jones).
Noes: 317 (Tellers: Mr Shailesh Vara, Norman Lamb).
Question accordingly negatived.
(4) That Amendments 17 to 21 and 6 to 8 be made (single Question on Amendments moved by a Minister of the Crown).-(Mr Edward Davey.)
Question agreed to.
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Postal Services Bill: Third Reading
Secretary Vince Cable signified Queen’s consent as far as Her Majesty’s prerogative was concerned.
Motion made and Question proposed, That the Bill be now read the third time.
At 7.00 pm the debate was interrupted (Programme Order, 27 October).
Question, That the Bill be now read the third time, put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83E).
The House divided.
Division No. 166.
Ayes: 319 (Tellers: Norman Lamb, Mr Shailesh Vara).
Noes: 238 (Tellers: Angela Smith, Mr David Anderson).
Question accordingly agreed to.
Bill accordingly read the third time, and passed.
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Adjournment
Subject: Education Maintenance Allowance and Walsall North constituency (Mr David Winnick).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Philip Dunne.)
Adjourned at 7.39 pm until tomorrow.
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Other proceedings
Lords Messages
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Re-Export Controls Bill [Lords]
The Lords have passed a Bill to make provision for the regulation of the re-export of military equipment and goods further to their original exportation from the United Kingdom, to which they require the agreement of the Commons.
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).
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Sports Ground Safety Authority Bill Committee
Chair: Mr Graham Brady.
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First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children Regulations 2010)
(1) Chair: Philip Davies
(2) Members: Rosie Cooper, Mr Jim Cunningham, James Duddridge, Mr Mark Field, Lorraine Fullbrook, Mark Garnier, Paul Goggins, Mrs Helen Grant, Duncan Hames, Mark Hendrick, Mrs Sharon Hodgson, George Hollingbery, Paul Maynard, Ian Mearns, Simon Reevell, Sarah Teather, Karl Turner and Sammy Wilson.
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European Committee B in respect of European Union Document No. 8399/10 and Addendum, relating to the Proposal for the regulation on the citizen’s initiative
Chair: Annette Brooke.
European Union Documents Referred
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European Committee A
European Union Document No. EUCO 33/10, relating to a draft Council Decision amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to the stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro.
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European Committee A
European Union Document No. 7984/08 and Addenda 1 and 2, Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 13 September 2010 and Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum dated 21 December 2010, submitted by the Department for Transport, relating to facilitating cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety.
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European Committee B
European Union Document No. 15319/10, relating to the strategy for the effective implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights by the European Union.
Reports from Select Committees
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Defence Committee
Winter Supplementary Estimates 2010: Written evidence, to be published (Mr James Arbuthnot).
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Education Committee
(1) The role and performance of Ofsted: Evidence, to be printed (HC 570-v);
(2) Winter Supplementary Estimate 2010–11: Department for Education and Teachers’ Pension Scheme: Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Graham Stuart).
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Environmental Audit Committee
(1) Green Investment Bank:
(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 505-v);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published;
(2) The impact of UK overseas aid on environmental protection and climate change adaptation and mitigation: Written evidence, to be published
(Joan Walley).
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European Scrutiny Committee
(1) Thirteenth Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 428-xii);
(2) Ministerial Correspondence: Written evidence, to be published
(Mr William Cash).
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Foreign Affairs Committee
(1) Future inter-parliamentary scrutiny of EU foreign, defence and security policy: First Report, with written evidence, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 697);
(2) The Role of the FCO in UK Government:
(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 665-iii);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published;
(3) FCO Performance and Finances: Written evidence, to be published;
(4) The UK’s Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: Written evidence, to be published
(Richard Ottaway).
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Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 558-vi);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Laurence Robertson).
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Public Accounts (Committee of)
(1) PFI in Housing and Hospitals: Fourteenth Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 631);
(2) Educating the next generation of scientists: Fifteenth Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 632);
(3) The youth justice system in England and Wales: Reducing offending by young people: Evidence, to be printed (HC 721-i)
(Margaret Hodge).
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Public Administration (Select Committee on)
Departmental Business Plans: Evidence, to be printed (HC 693-i) (Mr Bernard Jenkin).
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Science and Technology Committee
(1) Technology Innovation Centres:
(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 619-iii);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Strategically important metals: Written evidence, to be published
(Andrew Miller).
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Work and Pensions Committee
(1) The Work Programme: providers and contracting arrangements: Evidence, to be printed (HC 718-i);
(2) Child maintenance: Written evidence, to be published
(Dame Anne Begg).
John Bercow
Speaker
The Speaker will take the Chair at 10.30 am.
Sitting in Westminster Hall
No. 60
The sitting began at 9.30 am.
Adjournment
Subjects:
Biotechnology and food security (Mr Mark Spencer).
Effect of flooding on Steart village, Somerset (Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger).
Local government budgets in Coventry and the West Midlands (Mr Jim Cunningham).
Cost reductions in Government IT procurement (John Pugh).
Government proposals for planning control (Andrea Leadsom).
Resolved, That the sitting do now adjourn.-(Mr Robert Goodwill.)
Adjourned at 4.59 pm until tomorrow.
Lindsay Hoyle
Deputy Speaker
APPENDIX
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
1
Taxes
Mutual Societies (Transfers of Business) (Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 37), dated 11 January 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (David Gauke).
2
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Statute, dated 19 May 2010, made by the Governing Body of Jesus College in the University of Oxford, revising the existing Statutes of the College (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).
CORRIGENDUM
10 January 2011
In the Appendix, item 10 (1) appeared under the heading "Papers subject to Negative Resolution". It should have appeared under the heading "Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution."
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