House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Wednesday
7th July 2010

No. 28

Wednesday 7 July 2010

The House met at 11.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for International Development

(2) the Prime Minister

2 Statement: Afghanistan (Secretary Liam Fox)

3 Opposition Day: Leader of the Opposition (3rd allotted day (Standing Order No. 14))

Government support for jobs and the unemployed

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House notes with grave concern that the emergency budget will increase unemployment; calls on the Government to publish the HM Treasury analysis of jobs that will be lost in the public and private sector; condemns the Government’s decision to axe the Future Jobs Fund, the Youth Guarantee and the Jobseeker’s Guarantee, scrapping hundreds of thousands of jobs and training places for the unemployed; further notes that the Government is cutting employment support to help people into jobs at a time when growth is still fragile; regrets that the role of the voluntary sector in helping people into work is at risk; further notes that the current claimant count is half the level it was in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of the support and investment the previous Government provided for jobs and getting people back to work; further notes the cost to communities and the economy of long-term unemployment; and condemns the Government’s decision to abolish regional development agencies with potentially damaging consequences for regional economies at a time when the recovery is not yet assured.-(Yvette Cooper.)

Amendment moved, in line 1, to leave out from ‘House’ to the end of the Question and add ‘welcomes the emergency budget which will tackle the unprecedented legacy of debt over the next five years by reducing borrowing from a projected £149 billion this year to just £20 billion in 2015–16; notes the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projection that unemployment will fall in every year of this Parliament as a result of the Government’s policies to stimulate private sector employment by reversing the damaging increase planned for employer national insurance contributions, introducing a £1 billion Regional Growth Fund, reducing the corporation and small profits tax rates and increasing the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, resulting in the creation of a projected two million new private sector jobs by 2015–16; further welcomes moves to implement a single work programme that will provide personalised support to help people move into sustained employment, to introduce a £1,000 increase in income tax personal allowances which will incentivise work, to reform the benefits system to ensure that work pays and to provide 50,000 new apprenticeships and 10,000 new university places for young people, thus stimulating growth, delivering jobs and creating a fairer society for all.’.-(Chris Grayling.)

Question put, That the original words stand part of the Question (Standing Order No. 31(2)).

The House divided.

Division No. 15.

Ayes: 243 (Tellers: Mark Tami, Steve McCabe).

Noes: 331 (Tellers: Miss Chloe Smith, Norman Lamb).

Question accordingly negatived.

Question, That the proposed words be there added, put forthwith (Standing Order No. 31).

Question agreed to.

The Speaker declared the Main Question, as amended, agreed to (Standing Order No. 31(2)).

Resolved, That this House welcomes the emergency budget which will tackle the unprecedented legacy of debt over the next five years by reducing borrowing from a projected £149 billion this year to just £20 billion in 2015–16; notes the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projection that unemployment will fall in every year of this Parliament as a result of the Government’s policies to stimulate private sector employment by reversing the damaging increase planned for employer national insurance contributions, introducing a £1 billion Regional Growth Fund, reducing the corporation and small profits tax rates and increasing the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, resulting in the creation of a projected two million new private sector jobs by 2015–16; further welcomes moves to implement a single work programme that will provide personalised support to help people move into sustained employment, to introduce a £1,000 increase in income tax personal allowances which will incentivise work, to reform the benefits system to ensure that work pays and to provide 50,000 new apprenticeships and 10,000 new university places for young people, thus stimulating growth, delivering jobs and creating a fairer society for all.

4 Statement: Schools funding (Secretary Michael Gove)

5 Statutory Instruments: Motion for Approval

Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2010, which were laid before this House on 23 March 2010, in the previous Parliament, be approved.-(Mr Robert Goodwill.)

Question agreed to.

6 Business of the House

Motion made, That, notwithstanding the practice of the House as to the intervals between stages of Bills brought in upon Ways and Means Resolutions, more than one stage of the Finance Bill may be taken at any sitting of the House.-(Mr Robert Goodwill.)

Objection taken (Standing Order No. 9(6)).

7 Public Petitions

A Public Petition from the people of Ceredigion relating to Blockade of Gaza was presented and read by Mr Mark Williams.

8 Adjournment

Subject: Future of British Waterways (Tristram Hunt).

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Robert Goodwill.)

House adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 9(7)).

Adjourned at 8.13 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

General Committees: Reports

9 Third Delegated Legislation Committee

Mr Peter Bone (Chair) reported the draft State Pension Credit Pilot Scheme Regulations 2010.

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).

10 First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Parliamentary Standards Act (Staff Transfer) Order 2010)

(1) Chair: Hugh Bayley

(2) Members: Adam Afriyie, Mr David Anderson, Mr James Arbuthnot, Tony Baldry, Stephen Barclay, Karen Bradley, Angie Bray, Stephen Crabb, Mary Creagh, John Cryer, Kate Green, Mr David Heath, John Howell, Eric Joyce, Barbara Keeley, Alan Keen, Ms Margaret Ritchie and Bob Russell.

11 Second Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Levies) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and the draft Pensions Regulator (Contribution Notices) (Sum Specified following Transfer) Regulations 2010)

(1) Chair: Mr George Howarth

(2) Members: Mr Julian Brazier, Andrew Bridgen, Mr Steve Brine, Fiona Bruce, Mr Robert Buckland, Conor Burns, Ms Angela Eagle, Mrs Sharon Hodgson, Stephen Lloyd, Mr Khalid Mahmood, Ian Paisley, Toby Perkins, Andrew Selous, Miss Chloe Smith, Sir Peter Soulsby, Steve Webb, Phil Wilson and Mike Wood.

[WH, No. 13]

Sitting in Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 9.30 am.

Adjournment

Subjects:

Fuel poverty in rural Britain (Dr Thérèse Coffey).

Traffic and the road network in Harlow (Robert Halfon).

Child and adolescent mental health services and autism (Jonathan Reynolds).

Closure of Goole and Selby magistrates’ courts (Andrew Percy).

National review of paediatric cardiac surgery (Liz Kendall).

Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Mr Robert Goodwill.)

Adjourned at 4.57 pm until tomorrow.

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Arms and Ammunition

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 1759), dated 6 July 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Theresa May).

2 Education

Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 1725), dated 1 July 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Michael Gove).

Other Papers:

3 Access to Justice (Northern Ireland)

Report and Financial Statements of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission for 2006–07, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 91) (Secretary Kenneth Clarke).

4 Government Resources and Accounts

(1) Resource Accounts of the Department for Communities and Local Government for 2009–10, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 86) (Mark Hoban); and

(2) Treasury Minute, dated 7 July 2010, directing the application of certain amounts as appropriations in aid of the Estimates for the year ending 31 March 2011 (by Act) (Mark Hoban).

5 National Audit

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Ministry of Defence: A defence estate of the right size to meet operational needs (by Act); to be printed (HC 70) (Clerk of the House).

6 National Health Service

(1) Report and Accounts of Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(2) Report and Accounts of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(3) Report and Accounts of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(4) Report and Accounts of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(5) Report and Accounts of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(6) Report and Accounts of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(7) Report and Accounts of Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(8) Report and Accounts of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley);

(9) Report and Accounts of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 1 May 2009 to 31 March 2010 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley); and

(10) Report and Accounts of the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 2009–10 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley).

7 Supply Estimates, 2010–11

Central Government Supply Estimates 2010–11: Main Supply Estimates (by Command); to be printed (HC 269) (Mark Hoban).

Withdrawn Papers:

8 Supply Estimates, 2010–11

Central Government Supply Estimates 2010–11: Main Supply Estimates (HC 87) (by Command) (laid 21 June 2010).

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PANEL OF CHAIRS

The Speaker has nominated Mr Edward Leigh to be a member of the Panel of Chairs during the present Parliament (Standing Order No. 4(1)).