House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
17th July 2014

No. 26

The House met at 9.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Changes to membership of select committees

Ordered, That Anne Milton be discharged from the Committee and John Penrose be added.-(Greg Hands.)

2 Hallett Review

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, That she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House a Return of the Report of the Hallett Review: An Independent Review into the On the Runs administrative scheme, dated 17 July 2014.-(Greg Hands.)

3 Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(2) the Right honourable Member representing the Church Commissioners and the honourable Member representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

4 Urgent Question: Child abuse (Secretary Theresa May)

5 Business Question (Leader of the House)

6 Statement: Report of the Hallett Review (Secretary Theresa Villiers)

7 Select Committee Statements (Standing Order No. 22D)

(1) Publication of the Second Report from the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, A New Magna Carta? (Fabian Hamilton)

(2) Publication of the Second Report from the Education Committee, Into independence, not out of care: 16 plus care options (Mr Graham Stuart).

8 National Insurance Contributions Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, supported by the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Danny Alexander, Mr David Gauke, Priti Patel and Andrea Leadsom, presented a Bill to make provision in relation to national insurance contributions; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Monday 21 July, and to be printed (Bill 80) with Explanatory Notes (Bill 80–EN).

9 Backbench Business (2nd allotted day (Standing Order No. 14))

(1) Universal postal service obligation

Resolved, That this House believes that the Universal Service Obligation as set out in the Postal Services Act 2011 is under threat from unfair competition from organisations which are rapidly expanding end-to-end delivery services in low-cost, high-density urban areas while leaving high-cost, low-density rural areas to be covered by Royal Mail, the universal service provider; and calls on the Government to instruct Ofcom to bring forward proposals to protect the Universal Service Obligation and the commercial viability of Royal Mail against this threat.-(Katy Clark.)

(2) Provision of education for children with autism

Resolved, That this House has considered the provision of education for children with autism.-(Gordon Birtwistle.)

10 Royal Assent

The Deputy Speaker reported that the Queen had signified Royal Assent to the following Acts under the Royal Assent Act 1967:

Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2014

Finance Act 2014

Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014.

11 Adjournment

Subject: Death of Vince Morgan in Northallerton Prison on 28 December 2012 (Alan Johnson).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Gavin Barwell.)

Adjourned at 5.28 pm until Monday 21 July.

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Other proceedings

Lords Messages

12 Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill

The Lords agree to the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill without amendment.

13 Finance Bill

The Lords agree to the Finance Bill without amendment.

14 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

The Lords agree to the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill without amendment.

General Committees: Reports

15 Eighth Delegated Legislation Committee

Mr Graham Brady (Chair) reported the draft Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 Years.

16 Ninth Delegated Legislation Committee

Mr Christopher Chope (Chair) reported the draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014.

17 Tenth Delegated Legislation Committee

Sir Edward Leigh (Chair) reported the draft Local Government (Transparency) (Descriptions of Information) (England) Order 2014.

18 European Committee B in respect of European Union Document No. 18638/11, a draft Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of other Servants of the European Union

Sir Alan Meale (Chair) reported the following Resolution:

That the Committee takes note of European Union Document No. 18638/11, a draft Regulation amending the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of other Servants of the European Union; further notes that this Regulation is now in force; further notes that the UK voted against the Regulation at the Council of Ministers in October 2013; regrets that, in the context of the first real-terms cut to the multi-year EU Budget framework secured by the Prime Minister in 2013, the final Regulation was not more ambitious in achieving genuine reform and real budgetary restraint in the EU Institutions; and welcomes the modest reforms and savings that were achieved.

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).

19 Ninth Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014)

Members: David Rutley discharged and Steve Brine nominated in substitution.

Reports from Select Committees

20 Environmental Audit Committee

(1) Growing a circular economy: Ending the throwaway society: Third Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 214);

(2) Action on air quality: Evidence, to be published (HC 212);

(3) Green finance: Written evidence, to be published (HC 598)

(Joan Walley).

21 Political and Constitutional Reform Committee

(1) Revisiting the Cabinet Manual: Evidence, to be published (HC 233);

(2) Voter engagement in the UK: Written evidence, to be published (HC 232)

(Mr Graham Allen).

John Bercow

Speaker

The Speaker will take the Chair at 2.30 pm.

Sitting in Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 1.30 pm.

Adjournment

Backbench Business (3rd allotted day: First half (Standing Order No. 14))

Subject: The Middle East and North Africa.

Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Mr Tobias Ellwood.)

Adjourned at 4.29 pm until Monday 21 July.

Lindsay Hoyle

Deputy Speaker

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Income Tax

(1) Capital Allowances (Energy-saving Plant and Machinery) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I., 2014, No. 1868), dated 16 July 2014 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr David Gauke); and

(2) Capital Allowances (Environmentally Beneficial Plant and Machinery) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I., 2014, No. 1869), dated 16 July 2014 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr David Gauke).

2 Merchant Shipping

Port Security (Port of Londonderry) Designation Order 2014 (S.I., 2014, No. 1811), dated 6 July 2014 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Patrick McLoughlin).

Other Papers:

3 China No. 2 (2014)

Treaty, done at Beijing on 2 December 2013, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the People’s Republic of China on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Cm. 8911) (Secretary Philip Hammond).

4 Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress

Report and Accounts of Consumer Futures for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 210) (Secretary Vince Cable).

5 Copyright

(1) Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Copyright and Rights in Performances (Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 (laid 7 July) (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable); and

(2) Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Copyright and Rights in Performances (Licensing of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 (laid 7 July) (by Command) (Secretary Vince Cable).

6 Energy

Statement of the Nuclear Decommissioning Funding Account for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 569) (Secretary Edward Davey).

7 Equality

Report on Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations Exemption Orders for 2013 (by Act) (Secretary Patrick McLoughlin).

8 Export Control

Report on United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls for 2013 (by Act); to be printed (HC 480) (Secretary Philip Hammond).

9 Government Resources and Accounts

(1) Financial Report of Competition and Markets Authority for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 293) (Mr David Gauke);

(2) Report and Accounts of HM Treasury for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 20) (Mr David Gauke); and

(3) Report and Accounts of the Insolvency Service for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 324) (Secretary Vince Cable).

10 Government Resources and Accounts (Audit of Public Bodies)

(1) Report and Accounts of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation Trust for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 60) (Secretary Chris Grayling);

(2) Report and Accounts of Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 66) (Secretary Chris Grayling);

(3) Report and Accounts of Thames Valley Probation Trust for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 86) (Secretary Chris Grayling);

(4) Report and Accounts of Warwickshire Probation Trust for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 87) (Secretary Chris Grayling); and

(5) Report and Accounts of West Mercia Probation Trust for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 88) (Secretary Chris Grayling).

11 Government Trading Funds

Report and Accounts of HM Land Registry for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 196) (Secretary Vince Cable).

12 Health and Social Care

Consolidated Accounts of NHS Foundation Trusts for 2013–14, by Monitor, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 341) (Clerk of the House).

13 Health and Social Work Professions

Report and Accounts of Health and Care Professions Council for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 430) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt).

14 Industrial Development

Report by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the First Minister of Scotland and the Welsh Ministers under the Industrial Development Act 1982 for 2013–14 (by Act); to be printed (HC 399) (Secretary Vince Cable).

15 Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Framework Document (by Command) (Cm. 8882) (Secretary Chris Grayling).

16 Medical

(1) Fitness to Practise Statistics of the General Medical Council for 2013 (by Act) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt); and

(2) Report and Accounts of General Medical Council Trustees for 2013 (by Act) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt).

17 Museums and Galleries

Report and Accounts of National Maritime Museum for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 460) (Secretary Sajid Javid).

18 National Health Service

Report and Accounts of NHS Trust Development Authority for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 447) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt).

19 National Loans

Accounts of National Loans Fund for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 416) (Clerk of the House).

20 Parliamentary Commissioner

Report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman on an investigation into a complaint about the Electoral Commission (by Act); to be printed (HC 540) (Clerk of the House).

21 Pensions

Report and Accounts of Pension Protection Fund for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 489) (Secretary Iain Duncan Smith).

22 Public Expenditure

Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses for 2014 (by Command) (Cm. 8902) (Danny Alexander).

23 Report of the Hallett Review

Return to an Address to Her Majesty for a Return of the Report, dated 17 July 2014, of the Hallett Review: An Independent Review into the On the Runs Administrative Scheme (pursuant to Resolution today); to be printed (HC 380) (Secretary Theresa Villiers).

24 Science and Technology

Report and Accounts of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 54) (Secretary Vince Cable).

25 Social Security Administration

Government Actuary’s Quinquennial Review of the National Insurance Fund as at April 2010 (by Act) (Mr David Gauke).

26 Treasury

Simplifying and streamlining statutory annual report and accounts (by Command) (Cm. 8905) (Danny Alexander).

Withdrawn Papers:

27 Copyright

(1) Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Copyright and Rights in Performances (Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 (by Command) (laid 7 July); and

(2) Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Copyright and Rights in Performances (Licensing of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 (by Command) (laid 7 July).

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMITTEE

In pursuance of section 2(2) of the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919, the Speaker has nominated Mr Alistair Burt to serve, for the duration of the present Parliament, on the Ecclesiastical Committee in place of Andrew Selous.

CORRIGENDA

Tuesday 15 July

Item 27, Health Committee, should read:

Children’s and adolescent mental health and CAMHS: Evidence and written evidence, to be published (HC 342) (Dr Sarah Wollaston).

Wednesday 16 July

Item 25 should have referred to European Committee C.