House of Commons
Session 2017-19
Votes and Proceedings
Tuesday 19 March 2019
No. 272
The House met at 11.30 am.
Prayers
1Seventieth Birthday of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales (Answer to Address)
The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household reported to the House, That Her Majesty, having been attended with its Address of 14 November 2018, was pleased to receive the same very graciously and give the following Answer:
I have received your Address about His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. It gives me great pleasure to convey to The Prince of Wales the loyal and affectionate sentiments you express.
2Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Answer to Address)
The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household reported to the House, That the Address of 6 March, praying that Her Majesty will appoint Gareth Davies to the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General, was presented to Her Majesty, who was graciously pleased to comply with the request.
3Speaker’s Statement: Security and access to the Parliamentary estate
4Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
5Urgent Questions: (1) Child sexual exploitation victims: criminal records (Victoria Atkins)
(2) Clydesdale Bank and SMEs (John Glen)
6Fracking (Seismic Activity): Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23)
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require fracking operators to monitor seismic activity caused by fracking and take steps if such activity exceeds certain levels; and for connected purposes;
That Lee Rowley, Zac Goldsmith, Mr William Wragg, Damien Moore, Mr Simon Clarke, Eddie Hughes, Ben Bradley, Maria Caulfield, Sir Graham Brady, Andrew Lewer and Sir Kevin Barron present the Bill.
Lee Rowley accordingly presented the Bill.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 22 March, and to be printed (Bill 359).
7Exiting the European Union (Food)
Resolved, That the draft Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 5 February, be approved.—(Steve Brine.)
8Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)
Resolved, That the draft Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 4 February, be approved.—(Steve Brine.)
9Exiting the European Union (Food)
Resolved, That the draft Novel Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 4 February, be approved.—(Steve Brine.)
10Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)
Resolved, That the draft Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 5 February 2019, be approved.—(Steve Brine.)
Motion made and Question put, That Ian Austin and Mike Gapes be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Conor McGinn and Catherine West be added.—(Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Selection Committee.)
The House divided.
Division No. 366
Ayes: 199 (Tellers: Nic Dakin, Jeff Smith)
Noes: 134 (Tellers: Angela Smith, Jo Swinson)
Question accordingly agreed to.
Ordered, That Dan Carden be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Gareth Snell be added.—(Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Selection Committee.)
Subject: Local authority responsibilities under the Children Act 1989 (Kate Osamor)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Jo Churchill.)
Adjourned at 6.26 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
14Nappies (Environmental Standards) Bill
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 22 March.
15Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 22 March.
16Election Expenses (Authorisation of Free or Discounted Support) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 22 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 10 May.
17Minimum Service Obligation (High Street Cashpoints) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 22 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 5 April.
18Automatic Travel Compensation Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 22 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 5 April.
General Committees: Reports
19Sixteenth Delegated Legislation Committee
Mr Virendra Sharma (Chair) reported the draft Plant Health (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the draft Plant Health (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
20Twentieth Delegated Legislation Committee
Mr Laurence Robertson (Chair) reported the draft State Aid (Agriculture and Fisheries) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
21Twenty-third Delegated Legislation Committee
Stewart Hosie (Chair) reported the draft Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the draft Train Driving Licences and Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
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).
22Seventh Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019)
Members: Alex Burghart, Richard Burden, Colleen Fletcher, Nick Gibb, Kate Hoey, Mr Marcus Jones, Mike Kane, Stephen Kinnock, Conor McGinn, Huw Merriman, Amanda Milling, David Morris, Ms Marie Rimmer, Gareth Thomas, Maggie Throup, Craig Tracey and Helen Whately discharged.
23Eighth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019)
Members: Adam Afriyie, Richard Harrington and Mark Menzies discharged and Sarah Newton, Alec Shelbrooke and Kelly Tolhurst nominated in substitution.
24Tenth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Electronic Commerce and Solvency 2 (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019)
Members: Andrew Bridgen discharged and Craig Mackinlay nominated in substitution.
25Twentieth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft State Aid (Agriculture and Fisheries) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019)
Members: Lucy Allan discharged and Simon Hoare nominated in substitution.
Reports from Select Committees
26Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on 21 March in the Chamber and 4 April in Westminster Hall, with Annex containing a transcript of representations made on 19 March, to be published (Ian Mearns).
27Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
(1) Executive rewards: paying for success: Eighteenth Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 2018);
(2) Gas storage: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1666);
(3) The safety of electrical goods in the UK: Written evidence, to be published (HC 503)
(Rachel Reeves).
(1) Armed Forces Covenant Annual Report 2018: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1899);
(2) UK Response to Hybrid Threats: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1816);
(3) Correspondence with the Minister for Defence Procurement relating to the procurement of Fleet Solid Support Ships: Written evidence, to be published;
(4) Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to the Defence Engineering and Science Group (DESG) scheme: Written evidence, to be published;
(5) Correspondence with the Minister for Defence Procurement relating to the potential closure of GE’s Rugby site: Written evidence, to be published
(Dr Julian Lewis).
29Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Immersive and addictive technologies: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1846) (Damian Collins).
30Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee on)
Mrs Maria Miller reported, That she had been chosen Chair of the Committee.
Special educational needs and disabilities: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 968) (Robert Halfon).
32Environmental Audit Committee
(1) UK Export Finance: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1804);
(2) Correspondence from the Scottish Government relating to chemicals regulation after the UK’s EU exit: Written evidence, to be published. (HC 1769);
(3) Toxic chemicals: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1805)
(Mary Creagh).
33European Statutory Instruments Committee
Twenty-second Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 2059) (Sir Patrick McLoughlin).
Global Britain and India: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1465) (Tom Tugendhat).
35Health and Social Care Committee
(1) Drugs policy: medicinal cannabis: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 1821);
(2) First 1000 days of life: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1496);
(3) Kark report on the fit and proper person test: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1972)
(Dr Sarah Wollaston).
(1) Serious violence: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 1016);
(2) Correspondence with the Immigration Minister relating to the Asylum Operations Service Standard: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) EU Settlement Scheme: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1945)
(Yvette Cooper).
37International Development Committee
(1) UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 1732);
(2) Correspondence from the Secretary of State for International Development relating to Exiting the EU: redeployment of DFID staff: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) UK aid for combating climate change: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1432)
(Stephen Twigg).
(1) Prison Population 2022: planning for the future:
(i) Sixteenth Report, to be published, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 483);
(ii) Part of the written evidence, to be published (HC 483);
(2) Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice relating to the HMCTS Reform programme: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Director of Public Prosecutions: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1652);
(4) Role of the magistracy: follow-up: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1654)
(Robert Neill).
(1) Record of the Committee’s decisions relating to e-petitions, to be published;
(2) List of closed e-petitions presented to the House, to be published;
(3) Fireworks: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1929)
(Helen Jones).
Conduct of Mr Dominic Cummings:
(i) First Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1490);
(ii) Written evidence, to be published (HC 1490)
(Kate Green).
41Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
(1) PHSO Annual Scrutiny 2017/18: Towards a Modern and Effective Ombudsman Service: Sixteenth Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1855);
(2) Government Response to the Committee’s Fourteenth Report: The Role of Parliament in the UK Constitution Interim Report the Status and Effect of Confidence Motions and the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011: Thirteenth Special Report, to be printed (HC 2065);
(3) Government Response to the Committee’s Fifteenth Report: Status of Resolutions of the House of Commons: Fourteenth Special Report, to be printed (HC 2066);
(4) Governance of Statistics: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1820);
(5) The Role of Parliament in the UK Constitution: Authorisation of Military Force: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1891)
(Sir Bernard Jenkin).
42Science and Technology Committee
(1) Work of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1970);
(2) Balance and effectiveness of research and innovation spending: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1453);
(3) Clinical trials transparency: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1480);
(4) Correspondence with The Lancet relating to tracheal transplantation: Written evidence, to be published;
(5) Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport relating to the security of the UK’s communications infrastructure: Written evidence, to be published;
(6) Impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health: Written evidence, to be published (HC 822);
(7) Japanese knotweed and the built environment: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1702);
(8) Technologies for meeting clean growth emissions reduction targets: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1454);
(9) Work of the Science Minister and Government Chief Scientific Adviser: Written evidence, to be published (HC 438)
(Norman Lamb).
(1) The future of Scottish agriculture post Brexit: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 1637);
(2) The relationship between the UK and Scottish Governments: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1586);
(3) Use and misuse of drugs in Scotland: Part of the written evidence, to be published (HC 1997)
(Pete Wishart).
(1) Spring Statement 2019: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 2056);
(2) Consumer access to financial services: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1642);
(3) Correspondence from the General Secretary of the Affinity trade union relating to Lloyds Banking Group overdraft charges: Written evidence, to be published;
(4) Metro Bank and the Capability and Innovation Fund Pool A grant process: Written evidence, to be published;
(5) London Capital & Finance: Written evidence, to be published;
(6) Impact of business rates on business: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1944);
(7) The conduct of tax enquiries and resolution of tax disputes: Written evidence taken before the Sub-Committee, to be published (HC 933);
(8) The UK's economic relationship with the European Union: Written evidence, to be published (HC 473)
(Nicky Morgan).
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 9.30 am.
Business appointed by the Chairman of Ways and Means (Standing Order No. 10(6))
1Effect of leaving the European Union on the UK’s health and social care sector
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the effect of leaving the European Union on the UK’s health and social care sector.—(Brendan O'Hara.)
At 11.00 am, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered flooding in Cumbria.—(Tim Farron.)
At 11.30 am, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).
The sitting was suspended between 11.30 am and 2.30 pm (Standing Order No. 10(1)(b)).
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered gambling-related harm.—(Ronnie Cowan.)
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)).
Resolved, That this House has considered gambling-related harm.
4Ratio of GPs to patients in Swale
Resolved, That this House has considered the ratio of GPs to patients in Swale.—(Gordon Henderson.)
The sitting was suspended between 4.24 pm and 4.30 pm.
5Civil Service Compensation Scheme
Resolved, That this House has considered the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.—(Chris Stephens.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 5.18 pm until tomorrow.
Lindsay Hoyle
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
1Exiting the European Union (Broadcasting)
Draft Electronic Communications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Margot James)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 594), dated 18 March 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Robert Jenrick)
Other papers
Air Publication 3376 Volume 1 - Eleventh Edition of Terms and Conditions of Service for Airmen of the Royal Air Force (by Act) (Mr Tobias Ellwood)
Department of Health and Social Care Minute, dated 19 March 2019, concerning the remitting of outstanding public dividend capital in respect of the dissolution and reconfiguration of certain NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts (by Command) (Stephen Hammond)
CORRECTION
The following Speaker's Certificates should have appeared on the undermentioned dates as follows:
3 December 2018
Instruments
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 Wales, and ais within devolved legislative competence, as defined in Standing Order No. 83P.
Draft Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
Monday 4 March 2019
Instruments
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 instruments relate exclusively to England, and are within devolved legislative competence, as defined in Standing Order No. 83P.
Draft Plant Health (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019