House of Commons
Session 2017-19
House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Thursday
18 October 2018
No. 191
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Speaker’s Statement: Major the Hon. Charles Henry Lyell
2Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(2) the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission and the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, and the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, and the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission
3Urgent Question: Employment and support allowance underpayments (Sarah Newton)
4Business Question (Leader of the House)
5Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Secretary Karen Bradley, supported by The Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary Sajid Javid, Secretary David Gauke, Secretary David Mundell, Secretary Alun Cairns, Mr Shailesh Vara and Oliver Dowden, presented a Bill to facilitate the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland by extending the time for making Ministerial appointments following the election of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 2 March 2017; and to make provision about the exercise of governmental functions in, or in relation to, Northern Ireland in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Monday 22 October, and to be printed (Bill 275) with Explanatory Notes (Bill 275–EN).
(1) Ending exploitation in supermarket supply chains
Resolved, That this House is concerned about the practice of modern slavery and the exploitation of labour in the supply chains of supermarkets in the UK; notes this week marks world food day and anti-slavery day; recognises the global leadership that the Government has shown in tackling modern slavery in supply chains in the Modern Slavery Act 2015; and calls on the Government to help ensure that steps are taken to protect the workers and farmers who produce food.—(Kerry McCarthy.)
(2) World Menopause Day 2018
Resolved, That this House has considered World Menopause Day 2018.—(Martin Whitfield.)
Ordered, That, in respect of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill, notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.—(Andrea Leadsom.)
Subject: Rail services to Redhill, Reigate and District (Crispin Blunt)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Wendy Morton.)
Adjourned at 3.44 pm until Monday 22 October.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
9Registration of Marriage (No. 2) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 26 October, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 23 November.
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).
10Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2018)
Members: Steve Double discharged and Chris Davies nominated in substitution.
11Third Delegated Legislation Committee (Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2018 (S.I.,2018, No. 739))
Members: Nick Herbert discharged and Damien Moore nominated in substitution.
12Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018)
Members: Alec Shelbrooke discharged and Alex Burghart nominated in substitution.
13Tenth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2018)
Members: Paul Blomfield discharged and Matthew Pennycook nominated in substitution.
Reports from Select Committees
14Health and Social Care Committee
Antimicrobial resistance:
(i) Eleventh Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 962);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published (HC 962)
(Dr Sarah Wollaston).
Correspondence with the Prime Minister relating to her appearance before the Committee: Written evidence, to be published (Dr Sarah Wollaston).
(1) Universal Credit: managed migration: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 336);
(2) Defined benefit pension schemes: Written evidence, to be published (HC 579)
(Heidi Allen).
John Bercow
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 1.30 pm.
Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders Nos. 10(7) and 14(4))
Resolved, That this House has considered the future of breast cancer.—(Laura Smith.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 3.11 pm until Monday 22 October.
Lindsay Hoyle
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Government of Wales Act 2006 (Variation of Borrowing Power) Order 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Alun Cairns)
Draft Infrastructure Planning (Water Resources) (England) Order 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Michael Gove)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
3Exiting the European Union (Atomic Energy and Radioactive Substances)
Special Fissile Materials (Right of Use and Consumption) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 1094), dated 17 October 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) (Secretary Greg Clark)
4Exiting the European Union (Civil Aviation)
(1) Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 1091), dated 15 October 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Chris Grayling)
(2) Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 1088), dated 15 October 2018 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Chris Grayling)
Papers laid under paragraphs 3(3) and 17(3) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
5Exiting the European Union (Merchant Shipping)
Proposal for an instrument titled Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) (Secretary Chris Grayling)
Other papers
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Cross-government: Projects leaving the Government Major Projects Portfolio (by Act), to be printed (HC 1620) (Clerk of the House)
Draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill (by Command) (Cm. 9710) (Andrea Leadsom)
Agreement, done at Lanzarote on 25 October 2007, on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (by Command) (Cm. 9687) (Secretary Jeremy Hunt)
CORRECTIONS
Monday 15 October 2018
In Papers Laid, the following item should have appeared ahead of item 14:
Exiting the European Union (Animals)
Proposal for an instrument titled Animal By-Products and Transmissable Spongiform Encaphalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations, with an Explanatory Memorandum (laid 3 October 2018).
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Item 34 (1) should have read as follows:
(1) Universal Credit: Sixty-fourth report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1183).