House of Commons
Session 2019-20
Votes and Proceedings
Monday 4 November 2019
No. 14
The House met at 2.30 pm.
1Mr Kenneth Clarke took the Chair (Standing Order No. 1(1))
The Prime Minister acquainted the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of the resignation of the Right honourable John Bercow, lately Speaker of this House, gives leave to the House to proceed forthwith to the choice of a new Speaker.
Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Member presiding, invited the candidates to address the House, in the following order (Standing Order No. 1B(6)):
(1) Dame Rosie Winterton
(2) Chris Bryant
(3) Sir Edward Leigh
(4) Dame Eleanor Laing
(5) Meg Hillier
(6) Sir Lindsay Hoyle
(7) Ms Harriet Harman
The House proceeded to a ballot (Standing Order No. 1B(6)).
Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Member presiding, announced the numbers of votes cast for each candidate.
Ballot No. 1
(1) Chris Bryant: 98
(2) Ms Harriet Harman: 72
(3) Meg Hillier: 10
(4) Sir Lindsay Hoyle: 211
(5) Dame Eleanor Laing: 113
(6) Sir Edward Leigh: 12
(7) Dame Rosie Winterton: 46
The names of the following Members were removed from the ballot paper:
(1) Meg Hiller (Standing Order No. 1B(12)(a)).
(2) Sir Edward Leigh (Standing Order No. 1B(12)(b)).
The House proceeded to a further ballot (Standing Order No. 1B(11)).
Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Member presiding, announced the numbers of votes cast for each candidate.
Ballot No. 2
(1) Chris Bryant: 120
(2) Ms Harriet Harman: 59
(3) Sir Lindsay Hoyle: 244
(4) Dame Eleanor Laing: 122
(5) Dame Rosie Winterton: 30
The names of the following Members were removed from the ballot paper:
(1) Dame Rosie Winterton (Standing Order No. 1B(12)(a)).
(2) Ms Harriet Harman (Standing Order No. 1B(12)(c)).
The House proceeded to a further ballot (Standing Order No. 1B(11)).
Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Member presiding, announced the numbers of votes cast for each candidate.
Ballot No. 3
(1) Chris Bryant: 169
(2) Sir Lindsay Hoyle: 267
(3) Dame Eleanor Laing: 127
The names of the following Members were removed from the ballot paper:
(1) Dame Eleanor Laing (Standing Order No. 1B(12)(a)).
The House proceeded to a further ballot (Standing Order No. 1B(11)).
Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Member presiding, announced the numbers of votes cast for each candidate.
Ballot No. 4
(1) Chris Bryant: 213
(2) Sir Lindsay Hoyle: 325
Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 1B(13)), That Sir Lindsay Hoyle do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.
Question agreed to.
Resolved, That Sir Lindsay Hoyle do take the Chair as Speaker.
Mr Kenneth Clarke left the Chair.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle was taken out of his place and conducted to the Chair by Jackie Doyle-Price, Mr Nigel Evans and Caroline Flint.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, standing on the upper step, expressed his respectful and humble acknowledgement to the House of the great honour the House had been pleased to confer upon him, and sat down in the Chair.
The Mace was placed upon the Table.
The Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn, Patrick Grady, Jo Swinson and Nigel Dodds congratulated the Speaker Elect.
The Prime Minister signified the pleasure of Her Majesty that the House should present its Speaker this day at 9.35 pm in the House of Lords, for Her Majesty’s Royal Approbation.
3Message to attend the Lords Commissioners
A Message was received from the Lords Commissioners, by the Lady Usher of the Black Rod:
Mr Speaker Elect, The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Lords.
4Attendance in the House of Lords
The Speaker Elect, with the House, went up to the House of Lords.
The Speaker Elect was presented to the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Royal Approbation.
The Lord Chancellor, one of the said Lords Commissioners, signified Her Majesty’s Approbation of the Speaker Elect.
The Speaker reported, That the House had been in the House of Lords, where Her Majesty was pleased by Her Majesty’s Commissioners to approve the choice the House had made of him to be its Speaker.
The Speaker repeated his very respectful acknowledgements and grateful thanks to the House for the great honour it had conferred upon him, and renewed the assurance of his entire devotion to the service of the House.
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg.)
Adjourned at 9.50 pm until tomorrow.
Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Other Proceedings
Disqualification of a Member
Notification, laid upon the Table by the Speaker, That Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer had today appointed the Right Honourable John Simon Bercow, Member for Buckingham, to be Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of Northstead in the county of York.
Select Committees: formal minutes
8Select Committees (publication of formal minutes)
Ordered, That, in this Session of Parliament, the formal minutes of any select committee, together with the formal minutes of any sub-committee which they may appoint, may be published from time to time.
Reports from Select Committees
9Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
(1) Disinformation: Oral evidence, taken before the Sub-Committee on Disinformation, to be published (HC 74);
(2) Administration of football clubs: Written evidence, to be published (HC 72);
(3) The future of English cricket: Written evidence, to be published (HC 73);
(4) The work of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Written evidence, to be published (HC 71)
(Damian Collins).
10Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
(1) Beef prices: Written evidence, to be published (HC 53);
(2) Environment Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 172)
(Neil Parish).
11Environmental Audit Committee
(1) Correspondence from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy relating to shale gas: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Net zero government: Written evidence, to be published (HC 89);
(3) Sustainable tourism: Written evidence, to be published (HC 90);
(4) Toxic chemicals: Written evidence, to be published (HC 313)
(Mary Creagh).
12Exiting the European Union (Committee on)
The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal: Written evidence, to be published (HC 35) (Hilary Benn).
(1) A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies: Second Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 109);
(2) Correspondence with the Minister of State for Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office relating to the Anguilla Constitution: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport relating to the Telecoms Supply Chain Review: Written evidence, to be published;
(4) Freedom of religion and belief and human rights defenders: Written evidence, to be published (HC 176);
(5) The UK and Iran’s regional role: Written evidence, to be published (HC 177)
(Tom Tugendhat).
(1) Correspondence from the Home Secretary relating to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in France: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Correspondence from the Minister for Women relating to prostitution and sex work in England and Wales: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Correspondence relating to the Committee’s inquiry into Private Investigators in Session (2012): Written evidence, to be published;
(4) Home Office preparations for Brexit: Written evidence, to be published (HC 67);
(5) Modern slavery: Written evidence, to be published (HC 288);
(6) The Macpherson Report: twenty years on: Part of written evidence, to be published (HC 68)
(Yvette Cooper).
15Human Rights (Joint Committee on)
(1) Correspondence from the Chair of the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee relating to citizens' rights after Brexit: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Correspondence from the Minister of State for Justice relating to the death of a baby at HMP Bronzefield: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice relating to the Feltham A Young Offender Institution: Written evidence, to be published
(Ms Harriet Harman).
16International Trade Committee
Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to US tariffs on EU goods: Written evidence, to be published
(Angus Brendan MacNeil).
17Public Accounts (Committee of)
(1) NHS Property Services: First Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 200);
(2) Transforming Courts and Tribunal: progress review: Second Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 27);
(3) Accessing public services through the Government’s Verify digital system: Written evidence, to be published (HC 310);
(4) Auditing Local Government: Written evidence, to be published (HC 305);
(5) Cyber security in the UK: Written evidence, to be published (HC 312);
(6) English language tests for overseas students: Written evidence, to be published (HC 308);
(7) Exiting the EU: supplying the health and social care sectors: Written evidence, to be published (HC 198);
(8) Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales: Written evidence, to be published (HC 289);
(9) Food safety and standards: Written evidence, to be published (HC 29);
(10) HMRC standard report 2018–19: Written evidence, to be published (HC 28);
(11) Investigation: fracking: Written evidence, to be published (HC 204);
(12) NHS waiting times for elective and cancer care: Written evidence, to be published (HC 307);
(13) Renewing the East Enders set: Written evidence, to be published (HC 306);
(14) Sale of public land: Written evidence, to be published (HC 311);
(15) Support for children with special educational needs and disabilities: Written evidence, to be published (HC 203)
(Meg Hillier).
18Science and Technology Committee
(1) Clinical trials transparency: follow-up: Written evidence, to be published (HC 139);
(2) Commercial Genomics: Written evidence, to be published (HC 33);
(3) Correspondence from the Chair, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, relating to Digital Government: Written evidence, to be published;
(4) Correspondence from the Chief Executive, UKRI relating to the Impact of funding on equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility: Written evidence, to be published;
(5) Correspondence relating to Early Years Intervention: Written evidence, to be published;
(6) Correspondence relating to Japanese Knotweed and the built environment: Written evidence, to be published;
(7) Correspondence relating to the work of the Science and Technology Committee: Written evidence, to be published;
(8) Correspondence with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster relating to Digital Government: Written evidence, to be published;
(9) Work of the Science Minister: Written evidence, to be published (HC 34)
(Norman Lamb).
19Women and Equalities Committee
(1) Prostitution: Part of the written evidence, to be published (HC 255);
(2) Mental health of men and boys: Written evidence, to be published (HC 213)
(Mrs Maria Miller).
(1) Carillion: Written evidence, to be published (HC 80);
(2) Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to support for former employees of Thomas Cook: Written evidence, to be published;
(3) Overpayments of Carer’s Allowance: Written evidence, to be published (HC 102);
(4) Welfare safety net: Written evidence, to be published (HC 309)
(Frank Field).
Papers Laid
Papers presented and delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 1 November 2019 under Standing Orders No. 158 and No. 159
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts and Personal Dental Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1445), dated 30 October 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Jo Churchill)
Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 4 November 2019
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
2Church of England (General Synod) (Measures)
Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England, entitled Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure (by Act) (Clerk of the House)
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Non-Domestic Rating Multipliers) (England) Order 2019, dated 4 November 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Jesse Norman)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
4Exiting the European Union (Electronic Communications)
Network and Information Systems (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1444), dated 31 October 2019 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Matt Warman)
Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, done at London on 21 October 2019, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Georgia (CP 196) (by Command), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) and an accompanying report (by Command) (Secretary Dominic Raab)
Other papers
(1) Recommendations for the Prudential Regulation Committee (by Act) (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
(2) Remit and recommendations for the Financial Policy Committee (by Act) (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
7Church of England (General Synod) (Measures)
Report by the Ecclesiastical Committee on the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure (by Act), to be printed (HC 298) (Clerk of the House)
8Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)
(1) Explanatory Memorandum to the Common Agricultural Policy (Market Measures, Notifications and Direct Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1344) (laid 14 October) (by Command) (Secretary Theresa Villiers)
(2) Explanatory Memorandum to the Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1343) (laid 14 October) (by Command) (Secretary Theresa Villiers)
9Financial Services and Markets
Recommendations for the Financial Conduct Authority (by Act) (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Report and Accounts of The Wallace Collection for 2018–19, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 291) (Secretary Nicky Morgan)
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Investigation into Starter Homes (by Act), to be printed (HC 275) (Clerk of the House)
12Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan)
Second Report of the Independent Reporting Commission (by Statutory Instrument), to be printed (HC 131) (Secretary Julian Smith)
13Representation of the People
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (laid 14 October) (by Command) (Chloe Smith)
Sovereign Grant Act 2011: Report of the Royal Trustees on the Sovereign Grant 2020–21 (by Act) (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Withdrawn papers
15Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)
(1) Explanatory Memorandum to the Common Agricultural Policy (Market Measures, Notifications and Direct Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1344) (laid 14 October)
(2) Explanatory Memorandum to the Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1343) (laid 14 October)
16Representation of the People
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (laid 14 October)
CORRECTIONS
Monday 14 October 2019
The following item should have appeared as the only item in Other proceedings:
Home Affairs Committee
(1) Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary relating to the association of the police with political activity: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Home Office preparations for Brexit: Written evidence, to be published (HC 67)
(Yvette Cooper).
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Item 18 (Other proceedings) should have read:
Environmental Audit Committee
(1) UK Export Finance: Government Response to the Committee’s Nineteenth Report of Session 2017–19: Third Special Report, to be printed (HC 243);
(2) Net zero government: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 89);
(3) One-off session with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 86);
(4) Draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 301);
(5) Sustainability of the Department for Transport: Written evidence, to be published (HC 296)
(Mary Creagh).
Wednesday 30 October 2019
The following Speaker's Certificate should have been included at the end of Votes and Proceedings:
Northern Ireland Budget Bill
The Speaker has certified that the Northern Ireland Budget Bill is a Money Bill within the meaning of the Parliament Act 1911.
Thursday 31 October 2019
The following item should have appeared after item 23 (Other proceedings):
Environmental Audit Committee
Net zero government: Written evidence, to be published (HC 296) (Mary Creagh).