House of Commons
Business for Wednesday 10 October 2018
SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER
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11.30am |
Prayers |
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Afterwards |
Oral Questions: International Development |
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12 noon |
Oral Questions: Prime Minister |
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12.30pm |
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No debate |
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Up to 20 minutes |
Ten Minute Rule Motion: Criminal Records (Childhood Offences) (Theresa Villiers) |
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Until 7.00pm |
Agriculture Bill: Second Reading |
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Followed by |
Motions without separate debate: |
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No debate after 7.00pm |
Delegated Legislation (Motions to refer) |
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No debate after 7.00pm |
Business of the House (Motion) |
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Until 7.30pm or for half an hour |
Adjournment Debate: Role of youth services in tackling youth violence (Vicky Foxcroft) |
Westminster Hall
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9.30am |
Sustainability of the nursery sector |
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11.00am |
Consumer protections for new central heating installations |
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(The sitting will be suspended from 11.30am to 2.30pm.) |
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2.30pm |
Asylum accommodation contracts |
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4.00pm |
Universal credit split payments |
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4.30pm |
Promoting economic growth in the East of England |
Business Today: Chamber
11.30am Prayers
Followed by
QUESTIONS
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
1Lyn Brown (West Ham)
What recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Yemen. (906947)
2Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge)
What steps she is taking to ensure that people in Kerala have access to clean water, sanitation and shelter after the floods of summer 2018. (906948)
3Mr George Howarth (Knowsley)
What plans she has to promote the right to freedom of religion or belief in developing countries. (906949)
4Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford)
If she will provide additional funding to support and protect Rohingya women living in refugee camps. (906950)
5Sandy Martin (Ipswich)
If she will provide additional funding to support and protect Rohingya women living in refugee camps. (906951)
6Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire)
What discussions she has had with the Foreign Secretary on using Official Development Assistance to help protect endangered species. (906952)
7Mrs Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire)
What steps she is taking to promote trade for development. (906953)
8Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich and Woolwich)
What assessment she has made of the effect on Palestinian refugees of recent reductions in US aid. (906954)
9Rosie Duffield (Canterbury)
If she will provide additional funding to support and protect Rohingya women living in refugee camps. (906955)
10Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham)
What steps she is taking to promote trade for development. (906956)
11Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston)
What steps she is taking to ensure that private contractors in receipt of aid spending are held to the same safeguarding standards as charity and non-governmental organisation contractors. (906957)
12Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke)
What processes are in place to monitor UK aid spending in the Palestinian Territories. (906958)
13Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow)
If her Department will provide additional funding to Rohingya refugees in preparation for the cyclone season. (906959)
14Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire)
What assessment she has made of the effect of the application of the rule of law on levels of prosperity in developing countries. (906960)
At 11.53am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
T1Trudy Harrison (Copeland)
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. (906962)
T2Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (906963)
T3Jessica Morden (Newport East) (906964)
T4Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (906965)
T5Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford) (906966)
T6Helen Whately (Faversham and Mid Kent) (906967)
T7Scott Mann (North Cornwall) (906968)
T8Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (906969)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Q1 Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West)
If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 10 October. (906970)
Q2 Caroline Flint (Don Valley) (906971)
Q3 Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland) (906972)
Q4 Jim McMahon (Oldham West and Royton) (906973)
Q5 Mrs Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire) (906974)
Q6 Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) (906975)
Q7 Peter Grant (Glenrothes) (906976)
Q8 Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley) (906977)
Q9 Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) (906978)
Q10 Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton) (906979)
Q11 Peter Aldous (Waveney) (906980)
Q12 Henry Smith (Crawley) (906981)
Q13 Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North) (906982)
Q14 Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (906983)
Q15 Emma Dent Coad (Kensington) (906984)
URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS
12.30pm
Urgent Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any)
PRESENTATION OF BILLS
No debate (Standing Order No. 57)
Railways (Franchises)
Tim Farron
Bill to require the Secretary of State to terminate a rail passenger services franchise agreement in certain circumstances; to repeal section 25 of the Railways Act 1993; to make provision for local franchising authorities in England; and for connected purposes.
BUSINESS OF THE DAY
1. Criminal Records (Childhood Offences): Ten Minute Rule Motion
Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)
Theresa Villiers
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the criminal records of persons aged under 18 on the day an offence was committed; and for connected purposes.
Notes:
The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to 10 minutes.
2. AGRICULTURE BILL: SECOND READING
Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))
Jeremy Corbyn
Sue Hayman
Rebecca Long Bailey
Dr David Drew
Valerie Vaz
Mr Nicholas Brown
That this House, whilst recognising that on leaving the EU the UK needs to shift agricultural support from land-based payments to the delivery of environmental and other public benefits, declines to give a Second Reading to the Agriculture Bill because it fails to provide a strategy to safeguard the nation’s food supply at a time when food poverty and foodbank demand are rising rapidly alongside an epidemic in food-related health inequality, fails to recognise the central importance of UK sustainable food production and supply, leading to a greater reliance on imports, while failing to provide for controls over the production methods, working conditions, or animal welfare and environmental standards in countries from which the UK’s food is imported, and, when the natural environment is in crisis, with species decline at an alarming scale, soil degradation and increasingly volatile and extreme weather conditions driven by escalating climate change, provides the Secretary of State with wide-ranging powers but no duties or legally enforceable environmental protection targets, whilst giving Parliament limited ability to scrutinise any changes in the regime, and fails to legislate for current funding to continue until 2022 as Ministers have promised; and is of the opinion that the publication of such a Bill should have been preceded by a full process of pre-legislative scrutiny of a draft Bill.
Deidre Brock
Ian Blackford
Kirsty Blackman
Pete Wishart
Alan Brown
Patrick Grady
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Agriculture Bill on the basis that a final agreement for exiting the European Union has yet to be agreed between the UK and the European Union, that the Bill undermines the fundamental principles of the Scotland Act 1998 by reserving powers to the UK Parliament which are currently devolved to the Scottish Parliament, that the Bill fails to reaffirm assurances that post-Brexit funding for the rural economy will be at least matched by the United Kingdom Government and that the Bill should not be considered by this House until an agreement is reached between the UK Government and the European Union as well as with the Scottish Parliament.
Caroline Lucas
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Agriculture Bill because it fails to embrace the scale of change needed in food and farming policy to properly address the joint ecological crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, fails to put agro-ecological farming, including organic farming, at the heart of future land management schemes including providing relevant training opportunities for farmers, particularly during the transition period, and, overall, fails to account for the vital role healthy food must play in improving public health, fails to prioritise the restoration of the natural world above narrow definitions of productivity, fails to guarantee sufficient levels of ongoing funding to restore and protect the natural world and fails to introduce binding targets on restoring soils, water and biodiversity, fails to guarantee and protect minimum standards for the environment, animal welfare and workers’ rights and to protect farmers and the public, particularly from the impacts of deregulation in the case of trade deals with non-EU countries, fails to introduce a target for reducing the use of pesticides, despite their devastating impact on the health of the natural world; and believes that whilst the inclusion of public money for public goods is welcome, the failure to place legal duties on the Government to enact such measures means this Bill represents a wholly inadequate response to challenges, economic, social and environmental, facing the UK.
Liz Saville Roberts
Ben Lake
Jonathan Edwards
Hywel Williams
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Agriculture Bill on the basis that a final agreement for exiting the European Union has yet to be agreed between the UK and the European Union, that the Bill undermines the fundamental principles of the Government of Wales Act 2006 by reserving powers to the UK Parliament which are currently devolved to the National Assembly for Wales, that the Bill fails to reaffirm assurances that post-Brexit funding for the rural economy will be at least matched by the United Kingdom Government and that the Bill should not be considered by this House until an agreement is reached between the UK Government and the European Union as well as with the National Assembly for Wales.
Notes:
The Speaker has certified that clauses 1 to 3, 12 to 18 and 20 of the Agriculture Bill (Bill 266) relate exclusively to England and are within devolved legislative competence (Standing Order No. 83J).
Queen’s Consent to be signified on Third Reading.
3. AGRICULTURE BILL: PROGRAMME
No debate (Standing Order No. 83A(7))
Secretary Michael Gove
That the following provisions shall apply to the Agriculture Bill:
Committal
(1) The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.
Proceedings in Public Bill Committee
(2) Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 20 November 2018.
(3) The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.
Proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading
(4) Proceedings on Consideration and any proceedings in legislative grand committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which proceedings on Consideration are commenced.
(5) Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.
(6) Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading.
Other proceedings
(7) Any other proceedings on the Bill may be programmed.
No debate (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a))
Mel Stride
That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Agriculture Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of:
(1) sums required by the Secretary of State for—
(a) giving financial assistance to any person under the Act;
(b) making delinked payments (in place of direct payments under the basic payment scheme) by virtue of the Act;
(c) operating the public market intervention and aid for private storage mechanisms under retained direct EU legislation in response to exceptional conditions in agricultural markets;
(2) any administrative expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State by virtue of the Act; and
(3) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money so provided by virtue of any other Act.
Notes:
Queen’s Recommendation signified.
No debate after 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))
Andrea Leadsom
That the Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 739) be referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee.
6. DELEGATED LEGISLATION
No debate after 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))
Andrea Leadsom
That the Cattle Compensation (England) (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 754) be referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee.
No debate after 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))
Andrea Leadsom
That, at the sitting on Tuesday 16 October, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business), the private business set down by the Chairman of Ways and Means may be entered upon at any hour (whether before, at or after 4.00pm) and may then be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.
ADJOURNMENT DEBATE
Until 7.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))
Role of youth services in tackling youth violence: Vicky Foxcroft
Business Today: Westminster Hall
ORDER OF BUSINESS
The first part of the sitting will last for two hours. The second part of the sitting will last for three hours (Standing Order No. 10(1))
9.30am
That this House has considered the sustainability of the nursery sector: Chris Green
11.00am
That this House has considered consumer protections for new central heating installations: Jamie Stone
Notes:
The sitting will be suspended from 11.30am to 2.30pm.
2.30pm
That this House has considered asylum accommodation contracts: Alex Cunningham
4.00pm
That this House has considered universal credit split payments: Danielle Rowley
4.30pm
That this House has considered promoting economic growth in the East of England: Peter Aldous
Notes:
The second part of the sitting will be suspended and time added if divisions take place in the main Chamber (Standing Order No. 10(3)). The debate at 4.30pm will last for up to an hour.
Written Statements
STATEMENTS TO BE MADE TODAY
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1.Competitiveness Council (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space), 27-28th September
2.Energy Policy
Secretary of State for Defence
3.Future Accommodation Model
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
4.Contingent Liability for the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) as the Age Verification Regulator
Secretary of State for Education
5.Government Asset Sale
Secretary of State for the Home Department
6.Publication of the Government’s response to David Anderson’s review into
Deportation with Assurances
7.Report of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation on the operation in 2017 of the Terrorism Acts 2000 and 2006, the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011, and the Terrorist Asset Freezing Etc. Act 2010
Secretary of State for International Development
8.Ebola Outbreak in the DRC: Update on UK Response
Secretary of State for Justice
9.Justice and Home Affairs pre-Council statement
Notes:
Texts of Written Statements are available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/.
Committees meeting today
The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be changed without notice.
Public Bill Committees
Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill
Further to consider the Bill
Room 11
10.00am (public)
Delegated Legislation Committees
First Delegated Legislation Committee
To consider the draft Financial Regulators’ Powers (Technical Standards etc.) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
Room 9
2.30pm (public)
Select Committees
Exiting the European Union
Subject: The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal
Witnesses: Sir Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office; Jill Rutter, Programme Director, Institute for Government, Julian Jessop, Chief Economist and Head of the Brexit Unit, Institute for Economic Affairs, and Sir Simon Fraser, Adviser, Europe Programme, Deputy Chairman, Chatham House, and former Permanent Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (at 10.15am)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
9.00am (private), 9.15am (public)
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Room 18
9.15am (private)
Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Funding priorities in the 2018-19 budget: Education
Witnesses: Sharon O’Connor, Chairperson, John Collings, Director of Education, and Joyce Bill, Director of Finance and ICT, Education Authority
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)
Work and Pensions
Subject: Benefit cap
Witnesses: Giovanni Tonutti, Senior Policy and Operations Analyst, Policy in Practice, Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Sam Lister, Policy and Practice Officer, Chartered Institute of Housing, and Jenny Pennington, Senior Research Officer, Shelter
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)
Education
Subject: School and college funding
Witnesses: Dr Alison Birkinshaw, former President, Association of Colleges, Emily Chapman, Vice President (Further Education), National Union of Students, and James Kewin, Deputy Chief Executive, Sixth Form Colleges Association
Room 15
9.30am (private), 10.15am (public)
International Trade
Room 16
9.30am (private)
Justice
Subject: Prison population 2022: planning for the future
Witnesses: Professor Nick Hardwick, academic and former Chair of the Parole Board and Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dee Anand, British Psychological Society, and Mark Day, Head of Policy and Communications, Prison Reform Trust; Martin Jones, Chief Executive, Parole Board, Sonia Crozier, Director of Probation, and Dr Jo Bailey, Head of Psychology, HM Prisons and Probation Service (at 10.45am)
Room 6
9.30am (private), 10.00am (public)
Science and Technology
The Macmillan Room, Portcullis House
9.30am (private)
Women and Equalities
Subject: Disability and the built environment: follow-up
Witnesses: Kit Malthouse MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and Ms Nusrat Ghani MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
9.30am (private), 10.15am (public)
Scottish Affairs
Subject: The future of the oil and gas industry
Witnesses: Professor Jim Watson, Director, UK Energy Research Centre, Professor Corinen Le Quéré, Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia and Member, Committee on Climate Change, Dr Richard Dixon, Director, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and Professor Stuart Haszeldine, Scottish Carbon Capture Association
Room 8
10.00am (private), 10.15am (public)
European Scrutiny
Room 19
1.45pm (private)
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Live music
Witnesses: Mark Davyd, Chief Executive, Music Venue Trust, Jeff Horton, Owner, 100 Club, Ben Lovett, Member of Mumford and Sons and founder of Omeara, and ShaoDow, Musician; Tom Kiehl, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Public Affairs, UK Music, Lucy Noble, Artistic and Commercial Director, Royal Albert Hall, and Michele Phillips, Area Manager, DHP Family (at 3.30pm)
Room 8
2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)
Public Accounts
Subject: Financial Sustainability of police forces in England and Wales
Witnesses: Chief Constable Michael Barton, Durham Constabulary, Chief Superintendent Paul Griffiths, Vice President, Police Superintendents Association, Alison Hernandez, Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner, and Jane Kennedy, Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner; Sir Philip Rutnam, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, Scott McPherson, Director General, Crime, Police and Fire Group, Home Office, and Sir Tom Winsor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary (at 3.15pm)
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)
Treasury
Subject: Economic Crime
Witnesses: Rena Lalgie, Director, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, HM Treasury, Simon York, Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HM Revenue and Customs, and Alison Barker, Director of Specialist Supervision, Financial Conduct Authority
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)
International Development
Subject: Forced displacement in Africa
Witnesses: Sanj Srikanthan, Acting Senior Vice President Europe and Executive Director, International Rescue Committee, Markus Geisser, Senior Humanitarian Affairs and Policy Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross, and Lucy Hovil, Senior Researcher, International Refugee Rights Initiative; George Okoth-Obbo, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, and Valentin Tapsoba, Africa Bureau Director, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (at 3.30pm)
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
2.10pm (private), 2.30pm (public)
Procedure
Subject: Exiting the European Union: scrutiny of delegated legislation
Witnesses: Suella Braverman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, and Mr Robin Walker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Exiting the European Union
Room 15
2.15pm (private), 2.45pm (public)
Exiting the European Union
Subject: The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal
Witnesses: Mike Thompson, Chief Executive, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Richard Burnett, Chief Executive, Road Haulage Association, Martin McTague, Policy and Advocacy Chair, Federation of Small Businesses, and Andrew Opie, Director of Food & Sustainability, British Retail Consortium
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
2.45pm (private), 3.00pm (public)
Finance
Subject: Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster
Witnesses: Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP, Leader of the House of Commons, and Mr Tom Healey, Director, Shadow Sponsor Body
Room 6
2.45pm (private), 3.00pm (public)
Defence
Room 20
4.00pm (private)
Selection
Room 13
4.30pm (private)
Joint Committees
Human Rights
Subject: Youth detention: solitary confinement and restraint
Witnesses: Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, and Angus Mulready-Jones, Lead Inspector (Children in Detention) HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Room 1
3.00pm (private), 3.15pm (public)
Statutory Instruments
Room 7
3.45pm (private)