Votes and Proceedings
Monday 29 April 2019

No. 292

The House met at 2.30 pm.

Prayers

1Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

2Urgent Questions: (1) Tuition fees: EU students (Chris Skidmore)

(2) Rape victims: disclosure of evidence (Mr Nick Hurd)

(3) HS2: Buckinghamshire (Ms Nusrat Ghani)

3Statement: Northern Ireland: political process (Secretary Karen Bradley)

4European Union (Citizens' Rights) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)

Frank Field presented a Bill to safeguard rights of European Union citizens in the United Kingdom after exit day; to make provision for arrangements to be made with other European Economic Area countries and Switzerland to maintain the rights of British citizens in those countries after exit day; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the first time; to be read a second time tomorrow, and to be printed (Bill 383).

5Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

Resolved, That the Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 618), a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 March, be approved.—(Sir Alan Duncan.)

6Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

Resolved, That the Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 604), a copy of which was laid before this House on 20 March, be approved.—(Sir Alan Duncan.)

7Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

Resolved, That the Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 600), a copy of which was laid before this House on 20 March, be approved.—(Sir Alan Duncan.)

8Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

Resolved, That the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 792), a copy of which was laid before this House on 5 April, be approved.—(Sir Alan Duncan.)

9Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament

Resolved, That Ian Blackford be removed from the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament under Schedule 1 to the Justice and Security Act 2013 and Stewart Hosie be appointed to that Committee under section 1 of that Act.—(Paul Maynard.)

10Changes to the membership of select committees

Ordered, That Dan Carden be discharged from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and Susan Elan Jones be added.—(Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Selection Committee.)

11Adjournment

Subject: Government funding for the removal of cladding from privately owned high-rise blocks (Rushanara Ali)

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Matt Warman.) 

Adjourned at 8.10 pm until tomorrow.

Other Proceedings

Private Business

12High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill

Mr Speaker laid upon the Table a Report from the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, as follows:

(1) The Secretary of State for Transport deposited a certificate in the Private Bill Office on 25 April 2019, pursuant to Standing Order 224A(5) and (8), stating that all the comments on the Supplementary Environmental Statement 2 and Additional Provision 2 Environmental Statement (AP2 ES) relating to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill, deposited on Friday 8 February 2019, were received by the independent assessor by Tuesday 23 April 2019;

(2) the Examiners have instructed the independent assessor to prepare the report required under Standing Order 224A(6)(a)(i) and (8) within 28 days, that is, by Wednesday 22 May 2019; and

(3) before setting the period in paragraph 2, the Examiners consulted the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Standing Order 224A(6)(a)(iv) and (8).

Reports from Select Committees

13Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill (Joint Committee on)

Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 2009) (Peter Aldous).

14High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Committee

High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 927) (James Duddridge).

15Liaison Committee

The effectiveness and influence of the select committee system: Oral evidence taken before the Sub-Committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system, to be published (HC 1860) (Dr Sarah Wollaston).

16National Security Strategy (Joint Committee on)

(1) National Security Capability Review and Modernising Defence Programme: follow up: Written evidence, to be published (HC 2072);

(2) Work of the National Security Adviser: Written evidence, to be published (HC 625)

(Margaret Beckett).

17Northern Ireland Affairs Committee

(1) Changes to NI Renewable Heat Incentive payments: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 2070);

(2) Funding priorities in the 2018–19 budget: Education: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1497);

(3) Tourism in Northern Ireland: Written evidence, to be published (HC 2014)

(Dr Andrew Murrison).

18Public Accounts (Committee of)

(1) Planning and the broken housing market: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1744);

(2) Adult health screening: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1746);

(3) Care Quality Commission: regulating health and social care: Written evidence, to be published (HC 465);

(4) Homeless households: Written evidence, to be published (HC 462);

(5) Submarine defueling and dismantling: Written evidence, to be published (HC 2041)

(Meg Hillier).

John Bercow

Speaker

Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 4.30 pm.

Debate on an e-petition (Standing Order No. 10(1)(a))

1Online abuse

Resolved, That this House has considered e-petition 190627 relating to online abuse.—(Helen Jones.)

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

Adjourned at 6.10 pm until tomorrow.

Lindsay Hoyle

Chairman of Ways and Means

Papers Laid

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution

1Education

Draft Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc.) Regulations 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Chris Skidmore)

2Income Tax

Draft Double Taxation Relief (Cyprus) Order 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mel Stride)

Other papers

3Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning

Progress report on the Apprenticeships Reform Programme, August 2017–July 2018 (by Act) (Anne Milton)

4Senior Courts of England and Wales

Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 889), dated 23 April 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary David Gauke)

5Statutory Instruments (Notification)

Communication declaring that the undermentioned Statutory Instrument had come into operation before copies were laid before Parliament, and explaining why such copies had not been so laid before the Instruments came into operation: The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 855) (by Act) (The Speaker)