House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
11th September 2014

No. 37

The House met at 9.30 am.

PRAYERS.

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

2 Business Question (Leader of the House)

3 Recall of MPs Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)

The Deputy Prime Minister, supported by the Prime Minister, Mr William Hague, Greg Clark, Tom Brake and Mr Sam Gyimah, presented a Bill to make provision about the recall of members of the House of Commons; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the first time; to be read a second time tomorrow, and to be printed (Bill 94) with Explanatory Notes (Bill 94–EN).

4 Backbench Business (7th allotted day (Standing Order No. 14))

(1) Carbon taxes and energy-intensive industries

Resolved, That this House welcomes the measures announced in the 2014 Budget Statement which reduce cost pressures created by the imposition of carbon taxes and levies; notes that without such measures, there is a serious risk of carbon leakage; further notes, however, that UK manufacturing still pays four times as much for carbon compared with main EU competitors because of taxes such as the carbon floor price; and calls on the Government to build on the measures announced in the Budget by producing a strategy for energy-intensive industries, as recommended by the Environmental Audit Committee in its Sixth Report of Session 2012–13, HC 669, in order to produce a fairer and more efficient system which delivers genuine potential for investment in a low-carbon economy.-(Alex Cunningham.)

(2) Gurkha pensions and terms of employment

Resolved, That this House has considered Gurkha pensions and terms of employment.-(Jackie Doyle-Price.)

5 Privileges

Ordered, That Mr Robert Buckland and Heather Wheeler be discharged from the Committee of Privileges and Mr Dominic Grieve and Sir John Randall be added.-(Greg Hands.)

6 Standards

Ordered, That Mr Robert Buckland and Heather Wheeler be discharged from the Committee on Standards and Mr Dominic Grieve and Sir John Randall be added.-(Greg Hands.)

7 Adjournment

Subject: Flood protection in West Kent (Sir John Stanley).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(John Penrose.)

Adjourned at 4.13 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

Changes to Notices Given

8 Defence Expenditure (NATO Target) Bill

Order for Second Reading on Friday 12 September, read and discharged.

Bill to be read a second time on Friday 9 January 2015.

General Committees: Reports

9 Modern Slavery Bill Committee

Mr David Crausby (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.

Written evidence to be published.

10 Ninth Delegated Legislation Committee

Mr David Amess (Chair) reported the draft Representation of the People (Supply of Information) Regulations 2014.

Reports from Select Committees

11 Political and Constitutional Reform Committee

(1) Pre-appointment hearing: Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists:

(i) Third Report, to be printed, with the Formal Minutes relating to the Report (HC 223);

(ii) Evidence, to be published (HC 223);

(2) Revisiting the Cabinet Manual: Written evidence, to be published (HC 233)

(Mr Graham Allen).

John Bercow

Speaker

The Speaker will take the Chair at 9.30 am.

Sitting in Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 1.30 pm.

Adjournment

Backbench Business (6th allotted day: Second half (Standing Order No. 14))

Subject: Political and humanitarian situation in Kashmir.

Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Alun Cairns.)

Adjourned at 4.28 pm until Tuesday 14 October (Resolution, 2 December 2013, in the last Session of Parliament).

Lindsay Hoyle

Deputy Speaker

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Legal Aid and Advice

Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I., 2014, No. 2422), dated 9 September 2014 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Chris Grayling).

2 Plant Health

Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (England and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I., 2014, No. 2420), dated 9 September 2014 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Elizabeth Truss).

Other Papers:

3 Government Resources and Accounts

(1) Report and Accounts of Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales) for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 48) (Andrea Leadsom); and

(2) Statement of Accounts of Returning Officers’ Expenses England and Wales for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 619) (Mr David Gauke).

4 Justice

Report of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for 2013–14 (by Command) (Cm. 8930) (Secretary Chris Grayling).

5 Public Accounts

Treasury Minutes on the Sixty-First Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2013–14 and the First to Seventh Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2014–15 (by Command) (Cm. 8938) (Andrea Leadsom).