House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
19th March 2015

No. 128

The House met at 9.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

2 Urgent Question: Barts Health NHS Trust (Jane Ellison)

3 Speaker’s Statement: Ministerial statements

4 Statements: (1) Fiscal responsibility and fairness (Danny Alexander)

(2) Business of the House (Leader of the House)

5 Confiscation Orders (Sentencing and Offence) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)

Keith Vaz, supported by Nicola Blackwood, Dr Julian Huppert and Yasmin Qureshi, presented a Bill to provide that payment of the recoverable amount determined in a confiscation order by a court must be included as a component of a custodial sentence; to provide that non-payment of the recoverable amount be a criminal offence; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 27 March, and to be printed (Bill 191).

6 Ways and Means: Amendment of the Law (second day)

Debate resumed (Order, 18 March).

Question again proposed, That-

(1) it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance; and

(2) this Resolution does not extend to the making of any amendment with respect to value added tax so as to provide-

(a) for zero-rating or exempting a supply, acquisition or importation;

(b) for refunding an amount of tax; and

(c) for any relief, other than a relief that-

(i) so far as it is applicable to goods, applies to goods of every description, and

(ii) so far as it is applicable to services, applies to services of every description.

Ordered, That the debate be now adjourned.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

Debate to be resumed tomorrow.

7 Adjournment

Subject: Shooter’s Hill mobile phone mast at Stoke-on-Trent (Robert Flello).

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.-(Mr Shailesh Vara.)

At 5.00 pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

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

Adjourned at 5.21 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

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).

8 Second Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) Order 2015 and the draft Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015)

Members: Mr Ben Wallace discharged and Dr Thérèse Coffey nominated in substitution.

9 Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Selective Licensing of Houses (Additional Conditions) (England) Order 2015)

Members: Jenny Willott discharged and John Hemming nominated in substitution.

10 Eighth Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Public Bodies (Abolition of the Advisory Committees on Pesticides) Order 2015)

Members: Jenny Willott discharged and Tessa Munt nominated in substitution.

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 (28th allotted day: Second half (Standing Order No. 14))

Subject: Future of local newspapers.

Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.-(Damian Hinds.)

Adjourned at 4.20 pm until Monday 23 March.

Lindsay Hoyle

Deputy Speaker

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution:

1 Insurance

(1) Draft Flood Reinsurance (Scheme and Scheme Administrator Designation) Regulations 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Elizabeth Truss); and

(2) draft Flood Reinsurance (Scheme Funding and Administration) Regulations 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Elizabeth Truss).

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

2 Countryside

National Park Authorities (England) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 770), dated 16 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Elizabeth Truss).

3 Immigration

Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 768), dated 18 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Theresa May).

4 Legal Aid and Advice

Criminal Legal Aid (Contribution Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 710), dated 11 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Chris Grayling).

5 Local Government

(1) Draft Lincoln (Electoral Changes) Order 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (The Speaker); and

(2) draft Woking (Electoral Changes) Order 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (The Speaker).

6 Proceeds of Crime

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Application of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 759), dated 16 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Theresa May).

7 Public Service Pensions

(1) Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 755), dated 17 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Eric Pickles); and

(2) Public Service Pensions Revaluation Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 769), dated 18 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Danny Alexander).

8 Veterinary Surgeons

Veterinary Surgery (Exemptions) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 772), dated 17 March 2015 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Elizabeth Truss).

Other Papers:

9 House of Commons Members’ Fund

Account of House of Commons Members’ Fund for 2013–14, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 1133) (Clerk of the House).

10 Public Accounts

(1) Treasury Minutes on the Twenty-fifth to Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first to Thirty-second, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty-eighth to Fortieth Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2014–15 (by Command) (Cm. 9033) (Andrea Leadsom); and

(2) Treasury Minutes: Progress report on the implementation of Government accepted recommendations of the Committee of Public Accounts, Sessions 2010–12, 2012–13 and 2013–14 (by Command) (Cm. 9034) (Andrea Leadsom).

11 Treasury

Tackling tax evasion and avoidance (by Command) (Cm. 9047) (Danny Alexander).