House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
18th November 2010

No. 73

Thursday 18 November 2010

The House met at 10.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

2 Urgent Question: Socio-economic equality duty (Lynne Featherstone)

3 Business Question (Leader of the House)

4 Backbench Business (9th allotted day (Standing Order No. 14))

Immigration

Resolved, That this House calls on Her Majesty’s Government to act on the overwhelming public concern about the present scale of immigration by taking firm measures to reduce immigration without excluding those individuals who are genuinely essential to economic recovery, on which so much else depends.-(Mr Frank Field.)

5 Adjournment

Subject: Deep water drilling off the West of Shetland (Caroline Lucas).

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

At 6.00 pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(7)).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Jeremy Wright.)

Adjourned at 6.29 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

General Committees: Reports

6 Postal Services Bill Committee

Mr Jim Hood (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.

Written evidence to be published.

Reports from Select Committees

7 Liaison Committee

(1) Decision on Planning: National Policy Statements (Standing Order No. 152H):

That the Committee has designated the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee to consider the Proposal under the Planning Act 2008 for a national policy statement on waste water, laid before the House on 16 November;

(2) The Prime Minister: Evidence, to be printed (HC 608-i)

(Sir Alan Beith).

8 Political and Constitutional Reform Committee

(1) Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government:

(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 592-i);

(ii) Written evidence, to be published;

(2) Lessons from the process of government formation after the 2010 general election: Written evidence, to be published

(Mr Graham Allen).

9 Treasury Committee

(1) Financial Regulation: Evidence, to be printed (HC 430-ix);

(2) Competition and choice in the banking sector: Evidence, to be printed (HC 612-i)

(Mr Andrew Tyrie).

10 Welsh Affairs Committee

The proposed amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006: Second Report, with written evidence, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 603) (David T.C. Davies).

[WH, No. 45]

Sitting in Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 2.30 pm.

Adjournment

Backbench Business (8th allotted day: Second half (Standing Order No. 14))

Subjects:

(1) The 2010 Climate Change Conference, Cancun.

(2) Houses in Multiple Occupation.

Motion made and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Stephen Crabb.)

Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(11)).

Adjourned at 5.30 pm until Tuesday 23 November.

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution:

1 Children and Young Persons

Draft Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children Regulations 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Michael Gove).

Other Papers:

2 Health Professions (Hearing Aid Dispensers)

Report and Accounts of the Hearing Aid Council for 1 April–31 July 2010, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 617) (Clerk of the House).

3 National Audit

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Highways Agency: Procurement of the M25 private finance contract (by Act); to be printed (HC 566) (Clerk of the House).