House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Monday
12th December 2011

No. 237

Monday 12 December 2011

The House met at 2.30 pm.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

2 Statements: (1) European Council (Prime Minister)

(2) Royal Bank of Scotland (FSA Report) (Mark Hoban)

(3) Durban Climate Change Conference (Secretary Chris Huhne)

3 Immigration

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the matter of immigration.-(Damian Green.)

At 10.00 pm the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

4 Statutory Instruments: Motion for Approval

Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Investment Trust (Approved Company) (Tax) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 7 November, be approved.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

Question agreed to.

5 Business of the House (14 December) (No. 2)

Ordered, That at the sitting on Wednesday 14 December the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on:

1. the Motions in the name of Sir George Young relating to Carry-over (bills brought in upon a ways and means resolution), Third reading (bills brought in upon a ways and means resolution), Sessionality (supply), Consideration of estimates and Questions on voting of estimates, &c. not later than one and a half hours after their commencement; and

2. the Motion in the name of Sir George Young relating to Public bodies: scrutiny of draft orders not later than three hours after commencement of proceedings on the Motions specified in paragraph 1;

and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

6 Changes to membership of select committees

(1) Ordered, That Yasmin Qureshi be discharged from the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and Paul Flynn be added.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

(2) Ordered, That Mr Gerry Sutcliffe be added to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.-(Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)

7 Adjournment

Subject: Pregnancy counselling (Gavin Shuker).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

Adjourned at 10.29 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

Changes to Notices Given

8 Travellers (Unauthorised Encampments) Bill

Order for Second Reading on Friday 20 January 2012, read and discharged.

Bill to be read a second time on Friday 30 March 2012.

General Committees: Reports

9 First Delegated Legislation Committee

John Robertson (Chair) reported the draft Open-Ended Investment Companies (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and the draft Finance Act 2011 (Bank Levy: Amendment of Netting Agreements Provisions) Order 2011.

10 Second Delegated Legislation Committee

Miss Anne McIntosh (Chair) reported the draft Elected Local Policing Bodies (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2011 and the draft Local Policing Bodies (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2011.

11 Third Delegated Legislation Committee

Mr Gary Streeter (Chair) reported the Draft Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions and Community Energy Saving) (Amendment) Order 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).

12 First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Open-Ended Investment Companies (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and the draft Finance Act 2011 (Bank Levy: Amendment of Netting Agreements Provisions) Order 2011)

Members: Mr Brian Binley, Mr Mark Hoban, Chris Leslie, Mrs Mensch and David Tredinnick discharged and Mr David Gauke, Mr Robert Goodwill, Matthew Hancock, Owen Smith and Gavin Williamson nominated in substitution.

13 Second Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Elected Local Policing Bodies (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2011 and the draft Local Policing Bodies (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2011)

Members: Jackie Doyle-Price and Mary Macleod discharged and Mr Robert Buckland and Karl McCartney nominated in substitution.

14 Third Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions and Community Energy Saving) (Amendment) Order 2011)

Members: Fiona Bruce and George Freeman discharged and John Glen and Nicky Morgan nominated in substitution.

Reports from Select Committees

15 Administration Committee

(1) Record of the Committee’s discussions at its meeting on 12 December, to be published;

(2) Visitor Access and Facilities in the House of Commons: Written evidence, to be published

(Sir Alan Haselhurst).

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

Draft House of Lords Reform Bill:

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

(2) Written evidence, to be published

(Mr Tom Clarke).

17 International Development Committee

Working effectively in fragile and conflict-affected states: DRC and Rwanda: Twelfth Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 1133) (Malcolm Bruce).

18 Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee on)

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

19 Scottish Affairs Committee

The Crown Estate in Scotland: Evidence, to be printed (HC 1117-v) (Mr Ian Davidson).

20 Treasury Committee

FSA report into the failure of RBS: Written evidence, to be published (Mr Andrew Tyrie).

21 Work and Pensions Committee

Proposal to replace Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payment:

(1) Evidence, to be printed (HC 1493-iii);

(2) Written evidence, to be published

(Dame Anne Begg).

APPENDIX

Papers delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 9 December under Standing Order No. 159:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Agriculture

Wine Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2936), dated 6 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).

2 Animals

Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals Order 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2883), dated 6 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).

3 Banks and Banking

Protection of the Euro against Counterfeiting (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2944), dated 8 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Chloe Smith).

4 Corporation Tax

Investment Trusts (Dividends) (Optional Treatment as Interest Distributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2951), dated 8 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mark Hoban).

5 Environmental Protection

Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2933), dated 6 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Caroline Spelman).

6 Recovery of Taxes

MARD Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2931), dated 8 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (David Gauke).

Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 12 December:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

7 Miscellaneous (No. 5, 2011)

Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, adopted at Nairobi on 18 May 2007 (by Command) (Cm. 8243) (Secretary William Hague).

8 Miscellaneous (No. 6, 2011)

Statute, done at Bonn on 26 January 2009, of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Cm. 8242) (Secretary William Hague).

9 National Health Service

Health Service Branded Medicines (Control of Prices and Supply of Information) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2955), dated 8 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Mr Secretary Lansley).

10 Prisons

Parole Board Rules 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2947), dated 8 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Kenneth Clarke).

11 Social Security

Social Security (Electronic Communications) (No. 2) Order 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2943), dated 6 December 2011 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Iain Duncan Smith).

Other Papers:

12 Justice

Government Response to the Ninth Report from the Justice Committee, Session 2010–12, on Referral fees and the theft of personal data: evidence from the Information Commissioner (by Command) (Cm. 8240) (Secretary Kenneth Clarke).

13 National Audit

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Reducing costs in the Department for Transport (by Act); to be printed (HC 1700) (Clerk of the House).

14 Work and Pensions

Public Consultation: Bereavement Benefit for the 21st Century (by Command) (Cm. 8221) (Secretary Iain Duncan Smith).