House of Commons

House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
6 September 2018

No. 180

The House met at 9.30 am.

Prayers

1Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

(2) the Attorney General

2Business Question (Leader of the House)

3Statement: Restoration of Northern Ireland Government: Update (Secretary Karen Bradley)

4Select Committee Statements (Standing Order No. 22D)

(1) Publication of the Seventh Report of the Science and Technology Committee, E-cigarettes (Norman Lamb)

(2) Publication of the Fifth Report of the Education Committee, Forgotten children: alternative provision and the scandal of ever increasing exclusions (Robert Halfon)

5Local Electricity Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)

Jeremy Lefroy, supported by Peter Aldous, Alan Brown, Jonathan Edwards, James Heappey, Peter Kyle, Sir Oliver Letwin, Caroline Lucas, Layla Moran, Antoinette Sandbach, Alex Sobel and Catherine West, presented a Bill to enable electricity generators to become local electricity suppliers; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 26 October, and to be printed (Bill 262).

6Backbench business 

(1) Brexit, science and innovation

Resolved, That this House takes note of the Science and Technology Committee’s Second Report on Brexit, science and innovation, HC 705, and the Government Response, Fifth Special Report, HC 1008; further takes note of the Science and Technology Committee’s Eighth Report on An immigration system that works for science and innovation, HC 1061; believes that the Government should seek to agree with the EU the far-reaching science and innovation accord proposed by the Prime Minister in her Mansion House speech and in The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union White Paper, Cm 9593; calls for this accord to be negotiated separately from wider EU-UK trade negotiations; and further calls for the science and innovation accord to include details of an immigration system that works for the science and innovation community.—(Norman Lamb.)

(2) Global Britain and the international rules-based order

Resolved, that this House welcomes the Government’s aspiration to ensure the UK retains its influence and status as it prepares for departure from the EU; notes that for Global Britain to be more than a worthy aspiration the slogan must be backed by substance; further notes the threats to the international rules-based order posed, in particular, by the aggressive stance of the Russian Government; and therefore calls on the Government to publish by 31 October 2018 its assessment of the threats posed by Russia and other hostile states to the international rules-based order, and the Government’s strategy and resources for countering those threats.—(Tom Tugendhat.)

7Adjournment

Subject: Treatment of people under immigration control (Mr David Lammy)

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Jeremy Quin.

Adjourned at 5.24 pm until Monday 10 September.

Other Proceedings

Changes to Notices Given

8Rail Passenger (Compensation) Bill

Order for Second Reading on Friday 26 October, read and discharged.

Bill withdrawn.

Reports from Select Committees

9Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

(1) Pre-appointment hearing: chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission:

(i) Ninth Report, with appendices, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1142);

(ii) Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1142);

(2) Ensuring Proper Process for Key Government Decisions: Lessons Still to be Learned from the Chilcot Report: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2017-19: Seventh Special Report, to be printed (HC 1555);

(3) Devolution and exiting the EU: Written evidence, to be published (HC 484);

(4) Pre-appointment hearings: Written evidence, to be published (HC 909);

(5) Strategic leadership in the Civil Service: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1536)

(Sir Bernard Jenkin).

10Human Rights (Joint Committee on)

(1) Legislative scrutiny: Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1208);

(2) Proposal for a draft Human Rights Act 1998 (Remedial) Order 2019: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1457)

(Ms Harriet Harman).

John Bercow

Speaker

Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 1.30 pm.

Liaison Committee business (Standing Order No 10(7))

1Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems

Resolved, That this House has considered the Seventh Report of the Health and Social Care Committee, Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems, HC 650, and the Government Response, Cm 9695.—(Dr Sarah Wollaston.)

Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders Nos. 10(7) and 14(4))

2Supporting children in need into adulthood

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered supporting children in need into adulthood.—(Steve McCabe.)

At 4.30pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order no. 10(14)).

Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).

Adjourned at 4.30pm until Monday 10 September.

Lindsay Hoyle

Chairman of Ways and Means

Papers Laid

Papers subject to Negative Resolution

1Consumer Protection

Simple Pressure Vessels, Electrical Equipment and Pressure Equipment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 966), dated 4 September 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Kelly Tolhurst)

2Electricity

Electricity (Individual Exemptions from the Requirement for a Generation Licence) (England and Wales) Order 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 967), dated 4 September 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Claire Perry)

3Fire and Rescue Services

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire (Fire and Rescue Authority) Order 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 970), dated 4 September 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Sajid Javid)

4Senior Courts of England and Wales

Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 975), dated 28 August 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary David Gauke)

Other papers

5Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Minute, dated 6 September 2018, concerning a contingent liability relating to a notification of indemnification to SITEL UK LTD (by Command) (Claire Perry)

6Development of Tourism

Statement by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport concerning the Development of Tourism Act 1969 (by Act) (Secretary Jeremy Wright)

7Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Statement by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport concerning the British Library Act 1972 (by Act) (Secretary Jeremy Wright)

8Government Resources and Accounts

Financial Statement of the Security and Intelligence Agencies for 2017–18, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1509) (Mel Stride)

9National Audit

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Ministry of Defence: Investigation into national security vetting (by Act), to be printed (HC 1500) (Clerk of the House)

10Treaty Series No. 10 (2018)

Agreement, done on 1 December 2005, 4 December 2013, 4 December 2013, on Amendments to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (LL 1966)

(by Command) (Cm. 9697) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt)

11Treaty Series No. 11 (2018)

Agreement, done on 5 June 2003, 9 December 2004, 8 December 2006, 4 December 2008, 24 May 2012, 30 November 2012, 21 June 2013, 22 May 2014, on Amendments to the Protocol of 1988 Relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (LL PROT 1988) (by Command) (Cm. 9698) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt)

SPEAKER’S CERTIFICATES

The Speaker has certified, for the purposes of Standing Order No. 83P, and on the basis of material put before him, that, in his opinion, the following instrument relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence, as defined in that Standing Order.

Draft Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside And Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment And Functions) Order 2018

 

CORRECTIONS

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Item 20 should have read:

20 Backbench Business Committee

Determination of business to be taken on 13 September in Westminster Hall with Annex containing a transcript of representations made on 17 July, to be published (Ian Mearns).

 

Tuesday 4 September 2018

The following should have appeared after item 14:

Exiting the European Union (Committee on)

The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 372) (3 September) (Clerk of the House).

 

Prepared 6 September 2018