House of Lords - Public Bill Sessional Statistics for Session 1998-99

House of Lords Public Bill Sessional Statistics for Session 1998-99 Contents

Table 13: Special features

Bills printed pursuant to SO 48 (now 50)


Greater London Authority	Commons Amdts printed pursuant to SO 50.
House of Lords	Commons Reasons printed pursuant to SO 50.
Immigration and Asylum Bill	Commons Reason and Amdt printed pursuant to SO 50.
Northern Ireland	Printed pursuant to SO48

Queens Consent on Second Reading

House of Lords

Northern Ireland

Parliamentary Government

Bills re-committed


House of Lords	Bill re-committed in respect of Clause 2 (the Weatherill Amdt)
Pollution Prevention and Control	Re-commitment of whole Bill

Opposed stages


European Parliamentary Elections	Reasoned Amdt declining to give bill a second reading agreed to on division, 167 - 73; 15/12/98.
Greater London Authority	Motion to receive rpt debated 12/10/99; and again 19/10/99.
Health	Reasoned (non-fatal) amt to 2a tabled by official opposition and withdrawn, 9/2/99.
House of Lords	Reasoned (non-fatal) amt agreed to on 2a 192-126; motion to go into cwh debated 20/4/99: House resumed on division (145-136) on 6th day in cwh 17/5/99; bill passed on division: C221; NC81
Immigration and Asylum Bill	Motion to receive rpt debated 18/10/99
Sexual Offences (Amendment)	Dilatory (six-month) motion on 2a agreed to on division, C 222, NC 146 (free vote), 13/4/99
Tax Credits	Amt tabled to motion to receive report to postpone report until HMG clarifies its intentions with regard to passported benefits: amt withdrawn after debate, 18/5/99.

Other special features


Title	Special features

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty	First PMB to be committed to a Grand Committee.
Consolidated Fund	Enacted as Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act
Consolidated Fund (No. 2)	Enacted as the Consolidated Fund Act 1999
Consolidation Fund (Appropriation)	Enacted as the Appropriation Act 1999
European Parliamentary Elections	First Government Bill to be defeated at 2a since War Crimes 1991; Bill enacted under the Parliament Acts.
Greater London Authority	Printed in 2 vols as amended on report; largest bill ever (other than consolidations and Finance bills); most amendments ever tabled to a bill in HL, and most ever agreed to; most Lords Amts ever sent back to HC (820).
House of Lords	2a - two days; Leader advised cwh of irrelevance of 2 amts (not moved) 20/4/99; motions to refer questions about the effect of the Bill (on the writ of summons and the Treaty of Union 1707) referred to the Committee for Privileges on divisions 27/7/99; backbench motions tabled in NDN to refer Bill to examiners in whole and in respect of the Weatherill Amdt (Clause 2), and motion to refer bill to Examiners rejected on division 20/10/99.
Immigration and Asylum Bill	Govt undertook not to press on rpt amts which contained delegated powers until DPSC had considered them, & to return with new amts on 3a (18/10/99).
Northern Ireland	Motion to go into cwh not moved 15/7/99 because HMG decided not to proceed with the Bill at that stage
Pollution Prevention and Control	QC given on CCA because omitted on 3a.
Sexual Offences (Amendment)	Second Government Bill to be defeated at 2a since War Crimes Act 1991
Trustee Delegation	Sponsor changed from L. Chancellor to L. Falconer of Thoroton after 2a (which L. Falconer did).