House of Commons
Session 2010-12
House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
8th September 2011
No. 195
Thursday 8 September 2011
The House met at 10.30 am.
PRAYERS.
1 Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport
(2) the Leader of the House and the honourable Member representing the House of Commons Commission
2 Business Question (Leader of the House)
3 Statement: Baha Mousa inquiry (Secretary Liam Fox)
4 Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill: Consideration of Lords Message
The House proceeded to consider the Lords Message received on 18 July relating to the Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill.
Lords Reason 9B
Motion made and Question put, That this House insists on its disagreement with the Lords in their Amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 9 but proposes Amendment (a) in lieu.-(Mr Mark Harper.)
The House divided.
Division No. 343.
Ayes: 253 (Tellers: Miss Chloe Smith, Mr Robert Goodwill).
Noes: 190 (Tellers: Mark Hendrick, Gregg McClymont).
Question accordingly agreed to.
5 London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill: Consideration of the Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee
New Clause NC1-(Hugh Robertson)-brought up, read the first and second time, and added to the Bill.
New Clause NC2-(Tessa Jowell)-brought up, and read the first time.
Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time.
Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
New Clause NC3-(Tessa Jowell)-brought up, and read the first time.
Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time.
Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
Amendments 1 to 4 made.
6 London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill: Third Reading
Bill read the third time, and passed.
7 Adjournment
Subject: Unduly lenient sentences: the case of Cameron Ross (Mr Iain Wright).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Angela Watkinson.)
Adjourned at 5.14 pm until tomorrow.
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Other proceedings
General Committees: Reports
8 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill Committee
Jim Sheridan (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.
Written evidence to be published.
9 Public Bodies Bill [Lords] Committee
John Robertson (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.
Written evidence to be published.
10 Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee
Mr Peter Bone (Chair) reported the draft storage of Carbon Dioxide (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2011.
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).
11 Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Modifications to the Standard Conditions of Electricity Supply Licences)
Members: Thomas Docherty discharged and Ian Lucas nominated in substitution.
12 European Committee C in respect of European Union Document No. 7226/11, a Commission Communication on an EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child
Members: Mrs Sharon Hodgson discharged and Toby Perkins nominated in substitution.
Reports from Select Committees
13 Draft Financial Services Bill (Joint Committee on)
Draft Financial Services Bill: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1447-i) (Mr Peter Lilley).
14 Home Affairs Committee
Policing large scale disorder: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1456-ii) (Keith Vaz).
15 Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Individual Electoral Registration and Electoral Administration-draft legislation:
(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 1463-i);
(2) Written evidence, to be published
(Mr Graham Allen).
16 Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee on)
Mr John Whittingdale reported, That he had been chosen as Chair of the Committee.
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Sitting in Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 2.30 pm.
Adjournment
Subject: Future flood and water management legislation-First Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, and the Government response.
Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Richard Benyon.)
Adjourned at 5.29 pm until Tuesday 13 September.
APPENDIX
Papers presented or laid upon the Table:
Papers subject to Negative Resolution:
1 Companies
Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2198), dated 5 September 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).
2 Dangerous Drugs
Misuse of Drugs (Licence Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2199), dated 5 September 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Theresa May).
3 Insolvency
Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2203), dated 5 September 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).
4 Taxes
Tonnage Tax (Training Requirement) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2185), dated 5 September 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Philip Hammond).
Other Papers:
5 Human Rights
Report to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Government’s response to human rights judgments for 2010–11 (by Command) (Cm. 8162) (Secretary Kenneth Clarke).
6 Inquiries
Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry (by Act); to be printed (HC 1452-I, -II and -III) (Secretary Liam Fox).
7 International Development
Fifty-first Report of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom to the Secretary of State for International Development for the year ended 30 September 2010 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Mitchell).
8 Political Parties, Elections and Referendums
Second Report from the Speaker’s Committee 2011 on Appointments to the Electoral Commission and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (by Act); to be printed (HC 1478) (The Speaker).
9 Treaty Series (No. 35, 2011)
Agreement, done at London on 21 June 2010, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital gains, with Protocol (by Command) (Cm. 8175) (Secretary William Hague).
10 Treaty Series (No. 36, 2011)
Treaty, done at London on 2 November 2010, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic for Defence and Security Co-operation (by Command) (Cm. 8174) (Secretary William Hague).
11 Treaty Series (No. 37, 2011)
Agreement, done at London on 8 November 2006, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital gains, with Protocol (by Command) (Cm. 8173) (Secretary William Hague).
12 Treaty Series (No. 38, 2011)
Agreement, done at Nassau, Bahamas on 29 October 2009, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the Exchange of Information relating to taxes (by Command) (Cm. 8172) (Secretary William Hague).
13 Treaty Series (No. 39, 2011)
Agreement, done at San Marino on 16 February 2010, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of San Marino for Exchange of Information relating to Taxes (by Command) (Cm. 8171) (Secretary William Hague).