House of Commons

Votes and Proceedings
Monday 13 January 2020

No. 8

The House met at 2.30 pm.

Prayers

1Sessional Returns

Ordered, That there be laid before this House Returns for Session 2019 of information and statistics relating to:

1. Business of the House

2. Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time (including Programme Motions)

3. Sittings of the House

4. Private Bills and Private Business

5. Public Bills

6. Delegated Legislation and Legislative Reform Orders

7.  European Legislation, etc

8. Grand Committees

9. Panel of Chairs

10. Select Committees.—(Chairman of Ways and Means.)

2Questions to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

3Urgent Question: Security situation in Iran (Secretary Dominic Raab)

4Queen’s Speech (Motion for an Address) (second day)

Debate resumed (Order, 19 December 2019).

Question again proposed, That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.

Subject: Britain in the world

Ordered, That the debate be now adjourned.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Debate to be resumed tomorrow.

5Adjournment

Subject: Official Development Assistance target (Patrick Grady)

Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Rebecca Harris.)

At 10.00 pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Rebecca Harris.) 

Adjourned at 10.23 pm until tomorrow.

Lindsay Hoyle

Speaker

Papers Laid

Papers presented and delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 10 January 2020 under Standing Orders No. 158 and No. 159

Papers subject to Negative Resolution

1Council Tax

Council Tax (Demand Notices) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 21), dated 8 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Luke Hall)

2Criminal Law

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Sites) (Amendment) Order 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 15), dated 7 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Anne-Marie Trevelyan)

3Government Resources and Accounts

Whole of Government Accounts (Designation of Bodies) Order 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 20), dated 8 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Rishi Sunak)

4Police

(1) Police Appeals Tribunals Rules 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 1), dated 6 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Priti Patel)

(2) Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 2), dated 6 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Priti Patel)

(3) Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 4), dated 6 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Priti Patel)

(4) Police (Performance) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 3), dated 6 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Priti Patel)

Other papers

5Low Pay Commission

National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report 2019 (by Command) (CP 206) (Secretary Andrea Leadsom)

Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 13 January 2020

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution

6Ecclesiastical Law

Draft Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Helen Whately)

7Housing

Draft Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Esther McVey)

Papers subject to Negative Resolution

8Council Tax

Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 23), dated 9 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Luke Hall)

9Housing

Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 27), dated 13 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Will Quince)

10Taxes

International Tax Enforcement (Disclosable Arrangements) Regulations 2020 (SI, 2020, No. 25), dated 9 January 2020 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Jesse Norman)

Other papers

11House of Commons Members' Fund

Account of the House of Commons Members' Fund for 2017–18, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 37) (Clerk of the House)

12Law Commissions

Report of the Law Commission on Simplification of the Immigration Rules (by Act), to be printed (HC 14) (Secretary Robert Buckland)

13National Audit

(1) Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: British Business Bank (by Act), to be printed (HC 21) (Clerk of the House)

(2) Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Business support schemes (by Act), to be printed (HC 20) (Clerk of the House)

 

Prepared 13 January 2020