House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Monday
31st October 2011

No. 214

Monday 31 October 2011

The House met at 2.30 pm.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

2 Urgent Question: Feed-in tariffs (Gregory Barker)

3 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Ordered, That, notwithstanding that such provisions could not have been proposed in Committee without an Instruction from the House, amendments may be proposed on Consideration of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to-

(a) provide for measures against the payment or receipt of referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services,

(b) create a new offence relating to squatting, and

(c) amend section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (reasonable force for purposes of self-defence etc).-(Secretary Kenneth Clarke.)

4 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (Programme) (No. 2)

Motion made and Question put, That the Order of 29 June 2011 (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (Programme)) be varied as follows:

1. Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order shall be omitted.

2. Proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading shall be concluded in three days.

3. Proceedings on Consideration shall be taken in the order shown in the first column of the following Table.

4. The proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table.

TABLE

Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
Amendments to, and new Clauses and new Schedules relating to, Clauses 7 and 8 and Schedule 1.	10.00 pm on the first day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to sentences of imprisonment or detention for public protection, life sentences, extended sentences and the release and recall of extended sentence prisoners.	6.00 pm on the second day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to referral fees; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to fines on conviction in magistrates’ courts.	8.00 pm on the second day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to squatting.	10.00 pm on the second day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to, and amendments to, Part 1 (other than Clauses 7 and 8 and Schedule 1); new Clauses and new Schedules relating to, and amendments to, Part 2; remaining new Clauses; remaining new Schedules; amendments to Parts 3 and 4; remaining proceedings on Consideration.	6.00 pm on the third day

5. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 7.00 pm on the third day.-(Mr Jonathan Djanogly.)

The House divided.

Division No. 379.

Ayes: 292 (Tellers: Greg Hands, Mr Brooks Newmark).

Noes: 209 (Tellers: Mr David Hamilton, Phil Wilson).

Question accordingly agreed to.

5 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill: Consideration of the Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee (1st allocated day)

Amendment 10 made.

Amendment 80 proposed.-(Mr Elfyn Llwyd.)

At 10.00 pm, the debate was interrupted (Programme Order, today).

The following Questions were put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83E).

(1) That Amendment 80 be made (Question already proposed from the Chair).

Question negatived.

(2) That Amendment 11 be made (Amendment moved by a Minister of the Crown).-(Mr Jonathan Djanogly.)

Question agreed to.

(3) That Amendment 92 be made (Amendment selected by the Speaker for separate decision).-(Mr Elfyn Llwyd.)

The House divided.

Division No. 380.

Ayes: 237 (Tellers: Chris Ruane, Hywel Williams).

Noes: 305 (Tellers: Mr Philip Dunne, Mark Hunter).

Question accordingly negatived.

(4) That Amendment 74 be made (Amendment selected by the Speaker for separate decision).-(Mr Andy Slaughter.)

The House divided.

Division No. 381.

Ayes: 232 (Tellers: Susan Elan Jones, Chris Ruane).

Noes: 305 (Tellers: Mr Philip Dunne, Mark Hunter).

Question accordingly negatived.

(5) That Amendments 55 to 58 be made (single Question on Amendments moved by a Minister of the Crown).-(Mr Jonathan Djanogly.)

Question agreed to.

(6) That Amendment 142 be made (Amendment selected by the Speaker for separate decision).-(Karl Turner.)

The House divided.

Division No. 382.

Ayes: 229 (Tellers: Chris Ruane, Susan Elan Jones).

Noes: 300 (Tellers: Mark Hunter, Greg Hands).

Question accordingly negatived.

(7) That Amendments 59 to 62, 12 to 14, 63 and 15 to 18 be made (single Question on Amendments moved by a Minister of the Crown).-(Mr Jonathan Djanogly.)

Question agreed to.

Bill to be further considered tomorrow.

6 Statutory Instruments: Motion for Approval

Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 18 July, be approved.-(Mr Mark Francois.)

Question agreed to.

7 Local Government Boundary Commission for England

Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6) and Order of 11 October), That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will re-appoint Maxwell Marshall Caller CBE to be the chairman of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England with effect from 1 January 2012 for the period ending on 31 December 2015.-(Mr Mark Francois.)

Question agreed to.

8 Electoral Commission

(1) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6) and Order of 11 October), That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will re-appoint Maxwell Marshall Caller CBE to be an Electoral Commissioner with effect from 1 January 2012 for the period ending on 31 December 2015.-(Mr Mark Francois.)

Question agreed to.

(2) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6) and Order of 17 October), That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that Her Majesty will appoint Anna Carragher to be an Electoral Commissioner with effect from 1 January 2012 for the period ending on 31 December 2015.-(Mr Mark Francois.)

Question agreed to.

9 Changes to membership of select committees

(1) Ordered, That Mrs Helen Grant be discharged from the Justice Committee and Nick de Bois be added.-(Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)

(2) Ordered, That Andrew Percy be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Karen Bradley be added.-(Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)

(3) Ordered, That Justine Greening be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Miss Chloe Smith be added.-(Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)

10 Adjournment

Subject: 75th anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade (Mr Stephen Hepburn).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Mark Francois.)

Adjourned at 11.14 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

Lords Messages

11 Pensions Bill

The Lords agree without amendment to the amendments made by the Commons to the Pensions Bill.

Reports from Select Committees

12 Administration Committee

Record of the Committee’s discussions at its meeting on 31 October, to be published (Mr John Spellar).

13 Communities and Local Government Committee

(1) Pre-appointment hearing for the Government’s preferred nominee for Chair of the Homes and Communities Agency Regulation Committee: Seventh Report, with evidence, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 1612);

(2) Financing of new housing supply: Written evidence, to be published

(Clive Betts).

14 Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee on)

Draft House of Lords Reform Bill:

(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 1313-iv);

(2) Written evidence, to be published

(Oliver Heald).

15 Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee on)

Privacy and Injunctions: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1443-iii) (Mr John Whittingdale).

16 Public Accounts (Committee of)

(1) Protecting Consumers-The system for enforcing consumer law: Fifty-fourth Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 1468);

(2) Smart Meter Roll Out:

(i) Evidence, to be printed (HC 1617-i);

(ii) Written evidence, to be published

(Margaret Hodge).

17 Scottish Affairs Committee

(1) The Crown Estate in Scotland: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1117-ii);

(2) Family return project: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1600-i)

(Mr Ian Davidson).

APPENDIX

Papers delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 28 October 2011 under Standing Order No. 159:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 National Health Service

Care Quality Commission (Membership) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2547), dated 25 October 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Secretary Lansley).

Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 31 October 2011:

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution:

2 Water Industry

Draft Water Supply (Amendment to the Threshold Requirement) Regulations 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

3 Derelict Land

Derelict Land Clearance Area (Chantry Lane, Welwyn Hatfield) Order 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2562), dated 26 October 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Eric Pickles).

Other Papers:

4 National Audit

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Crown Prosecution Service: The introduction of the Streamlined Process (by Act); to be printed (HC 1584) (Clerk of the House).

5 Opticians

Report of the General Optical Council for 2010–11 (by Act) (Mr Secretary Lansley).

6 Science and Technology

Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2010–12, on the Forensic Science Service (by Command) (Cm. 8215) (Secretary Theresa May).