Business Today: Chamber for Monday 1 June 2015

2.30pm Prayers

Followed by

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements (if any)

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. QUEEN’S SPEECH (MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS): ADJOURNED DEBATE [28 MAY]

Until 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Proposed subject for debate: Britain in the world

That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 10.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Upland farming: Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

 WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

1.Foreign Affairs Council, Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) and General Affairs Council: 18-19 May

2.2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Prime Minister

3.Machinery of Government changes: Shareholder Executive; Digital Economy Unit; and, cities policy

Notes:

Texts of Written Statements are available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-written-statements/.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

 FORTHCOMING END OF DAY ADJOURNMENT DEBATES

Tuesday 9 June to Monday 15 June

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 3 June. The ballot will take place on Thursday 4 June.

 FORTHCOMING WESTMINSTER HALL DEBATES

Applications for 90, 60 and 30-minute debates should be made to the Table Office by 10.00pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on the deadline dates listed below. Members may submit applications to the Table Office in person, or from their own email account, or send a signed application through the post. Application forms are available from the Table Office or through the intranet at http://intranet.parliament.uk/tableoffice/.

The ballot takes place on the day following the deadline. Members will be informed of the outcome by the Speaker’s Office.

Tuesday 9 June and Wednesday 10 June (deadline 1 June) and Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 June (deadline 15 June)

The following Departments will answer:

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Education; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Home Office; Treasury; Wales; and Women and Equalities

Tuesday 16 June and Wednesday 17 June (deadline 8 June) and Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 1 July (deadline 22 June)

The following Departments will answer:

Defence; Energy and Climate Change; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Health; International Development; Justice; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Transport; and Work and Pensions

 ELECTION OF DEPUTY SPEAKERS

Nominations

Nominations must be received in writing in the Lower Table Office between 10am and 5pm on Monday 1 June (two days before the election). Each nomination shall consist of a brief signed statement made by the candidate declaring their willingness to stand for election, accompanied by the signatures of not fewer than six, nor more than ten Members. No Member may sign more than three such statements; if any Member does so, their signature shall no longer be valid.

As soon as possible after the close of nominations, the list of candidates and their sponsors will be placed in the Vote Office in the Members’ Lobby and published on the intranet. As soon as possible after that, a booklet with candidates’ names, photographs and statements will be made available in the same way.

Ballot

The ballot will take place between 10.00am and 1.30pm on Wednesday 3 June in Committee Room 6. Members each have one vote, which is transferable. They place candidates in their preferred order using the figures ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, etc. The figure ‘1’ represents the vote and is mandatory. The rest are contingency markings and are optional but allow the elector to influence the final result. Members should express preferences until they are unable, or do not wish, to differentiate between any of the remaining candidates.

Count

The ballot will be counted under the Single Transferable Vote system. It will be subject to the constraints set out in Standing Order No. 2A (5)(e). As soon as practicable after the votes have been counted the Speaker will announce to the House the results of the ballot.

For further details, please see the Briefing Note available in the Vote Office and on the intranet:

https://intranet.parliament.uk/Documents/intranet/assets/ballot-deputy-speakers-election-guidance.pdf

 PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS

Private Members' Bills

The book for the ballot for Private Members’ Bills will be placed in the No Division Lobby on Tuesday 2 June and Wednesday 3 June between 11.30am and the rise of the House (except during a Division).

Members may enter in the list only one name, either their own or that of another Member who has authorised them to do so. No name may appear more than once. A Member entering another’s name forfeits his or her own chance to enter the ballot.

The Speaker has appointed 9.00am on Thursday 4 June and Committee Room 10 as the time and place for holding the Ballot. The Chairman of Ways and Means will draw twenty names in reverse order. At about 9.30am on that day the list of successful Members (“Result of the Ballot for Bills”) will be posted in the No Lobby and copies of this list will be available in the Vote Office and on the internet. Members who win a place in the Ballot will be contacted by the clerk in charge of Private Members’ Bills about the subsequent procedure.

Presentation of Bills

Ballot bills will be presented on Wednesday 24 June (SO No. 14(10)).

The earliest time and date to give notice of presentation of non-ballot Bills under Standing Order No. 57 (presentation and first reading) will be 10.00am on Thursday 25 June (SO No. 14(11)(b)) and the earliest day on which such bills may be presented will be Monday 29 June (assuming the intervening Friday is non-sitting).

Ten Minute Rule Motions

Thursday 25 June will also be the earliest date on which notice can be given of a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill under Standing Order No. 23 (the “ten minute rule”). The dates for which such notices may be given on 25 June will be announced, once the sittings of the House for the relevant period have been confirmed.

 FURTHER INFORMATION

 Business of the Day

Documents and reports relating to the business being held in the Chamber are available on the Commons Business Briefings webpage

 Written Statements

Text of today’s Written Statements

 Standing Orders Relating to Public Business

Text of Standing Orders relating to public business