House of Commons
Session 2017-19
House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
12 October 2017
No. 32
The House met at 9.30 am
Prayers
1Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for International Trade
(2) the Minister for Women and Equalities
2Urgent Question: Prisons policy and disturbance at HMP Long Lartin (Mr Sam Gyimah)
3Business Question (Leader of the House)
4Statements: (1) Retail energy (Secretary Greg Clark)
(2) Clean growth strategy (Claire Perry)
5Exiting the European Union and data protection
Resolved, That this House has considered Exiting the European Union and Data Protection.—(Matt Hancock.)
Subject: Upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Deidre Brock).
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Andrew Stephenson.)
At 5.00 pm the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(7)).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Andrew Stephenson.)
Adjourned at 5.20 pm until Monday 16 October.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
7Business of the House Commission Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 3 November, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 15 June.
Explanatory Notes to Bills
8Assault on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill
Explanatory Notes to the Bill to be printed (Bill 7–EN).
9Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill
Explanatory Notes to the Bill to be printed (Bill 14–EN).
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 Selection Committee nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees).
Members: Jack Brereton discharged and Eddie Hughes nominated in substitution.
11Finance Bill Programming Sub-Committee
Members: Bim Afolami, Peter Dowd, Suella Fernandes, Ms Karen Lee, Jeff Smith, Mel Stride and Graham Stuart.
12First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Electricity Supplier Obligations (Amendment and Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2017)
Members: Rachel Reeves and Rebecca Harris discharged and Ann Coffey and Mark Spencer nominated in substitution.
Reports from Select Committees
Department for Education Accounts: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 395)
(Meg Hillier).
John Bercow
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 1.30 pm
Resolved, That this House has considered unauthorised encampments.—(Wendy Morton.)
2The effects of 30 hours free childcare
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the effects of 30 hours free childcare.—(Ruth George.)
The Chair announced a time limit on backbench speeches (under the authority of the Chairman of Ways and Means and Standing Order No. 47(1)).
At 4.30 pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.30 pm until Tuesday 17 October.
Lindsay Hoyle
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
1Financial Services and Markets
(1) Draft Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Stephen Barclay)
(2) Draft Risk Transformation (Tax) Regulations 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mel Stride)
Draft Drug Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders Regulations 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Amber Rudd)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Adoption and Children Act Register (Search and Inspection) Regulations 2017 (S.I., 2017, No. 978), dated 11 October 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Robert Goodwill)
(1) Criminal Justice (Sentencing) (Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Order (S.I., , No. 985), dated 9 October 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary David Lidington)
(2) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (European Union Financial Sanctions) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2017 (S.I., 2017, No. 986), dated 12 October 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Stephen Barclay)
Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2017 (S.I., 2017, No. 977), dated 10 October 2017 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Michael Gove)
Other papers
6Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
(1) Clean Growth Strategy: Leading the way to a low carbon future (by Act) (Secretary Greg Clark)
(2) Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (by Command) (Cm. 9516) (Secretary Greg Clark)
(3) Government Response to the report from the Committe on Climate Change: Meeting Carbon Budgets (by Act) (Secretary Greg Clark)
(4) Government Response to the report from the Committee on Climate Change: Progress in Preparing for Climate Change (by Act) (Secretary Greg Clark)
Vetting Code of Practice (by Act) (Secretary Amber Rudd)
Railways Act 2005 Statement: Statement of Funds Available (by Act), to be printed (HC 448) (Secretary Chris Grayling)
(1) Treasury Minute, dated 12th October 2017, concerning the Government responses to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Forty Second to the Forty Fourth and the Forty Sixth to the Sixty Fourth reports from Session 2016–17 (by Command) (Cm. 9505) (Andrew Jones)
(2) Treasury Minute, dated 12th October 2017, concerning the Government responses to the Committee of Public Accounts Sessions: 2010–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17 (by Command) (Cm. 9506) (Andrew Jones)
Instruments, adopted at Minneapolis on 6 November 1998, Amending the Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) as amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994) (Amendments adopted by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998)) (by Command) (Cm. 9512) (Secretary Boris Johnson)
Instruments, adopted at Marrakesh on 18 October 2002, Amending the Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) as amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994) and by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998) (Amendments adopted by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002)) (by Command) (Cm. 9513) (Secretary Boris Johnson)
Instruments, adopted at Antalya on 24 November 2006, Amending the Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) as amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994), by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998) and by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002) (Amendments adopted by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006)) (by Command) (Cm. 9514) (Secretary Boris Johnson)
Instruments, adopted at Guadalajara on 22 October 2010, Amending the Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) as amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994), by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998), by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002) and by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006) (Amendments adopted by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Guadalajara, 2010)) (by Command) (Cm. 9515) (Secretary Boris Johnson)