House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
27th May 2010

No. 7

Thursday 27 May 2010

The House met at 10.30 am..

PRAYERS.

1 Business Question (Leader of the House)

2 Speaker’s statement: Conduct and practice

3 Queen’s Speech (Motion for an Address) (third day)

Debate resumed (Order, 26 May).

Question again proposed, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.-(Mr Peter Lilley.)

Subjects: Energy and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

At 6.00 pm the debate was interrupted (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

Debate to be resumed on Wednesday 2 June.

4 Adjournment

Subject: Government support for Southend Borough Council (Mr David Amess).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(James Duddridge.)

Adjourned at 6.29 pm until Wednesday 2 June (Resolution, 26 May).

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Other Papers:

1 National Audit

(1) Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Department for Work and Pensions: Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work (by Act); to be printed (HC 21) (Clerk of the House); and

(2) Resource Accounts of the National Audit Office for 2009–10 (by Act); to be printed (HC 43) (Austin Mitchell).

2 Spain (No. 1, 2010)

Agreement, done at Madrid on 26 February 2009, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain concerning the Protection of Classified Information Exchanged between the Two Countries (by Command) (Cm. 7873) (Secretary William Hague).

Withdrawn Papers:

3 Animal Welfare

Draft Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (laid 15 March 2010).