HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Die Martis 3° Aprilis 2001
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Oxford.
Judicial Business
1. Appeal Committee—The 42nd Report from the Appeal Committee was agreed to and the following Orders were made—
Regina v. Benjafield (Petitioner)—That the respondents be invited to lodge objections by 5th April.
In re F (a minor)—That leave to appeal be refused; that the respondents be at liberty to apply for their costs in accordance with direction 5.1(d) and, if the application is granted, that the amount thereof be certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments if not agreed between the parties.
2. Krasner (the trustee in bankruptcy of John William Alexander Dennison) (Respondent) v. Dennison (AP) (Appellant) and others—It was ordered that the petition be withdrawn and that there be no order as to costs save that the costs of the appellant be taxed in accordance with the Legal Aid Act 1988.
Papers
3. Command Papers—The following papers were presented to the House by command of Her Majesty and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Northern Ireland—Northern Ireland Office Departmental Report 2001 and Government Expenditure Plans for 2001-02 to 2003-04 and Main Estimates for 2001-02; (5122)
2. Cabinet Office—Regulatory Impact Assessment 1st July to 31st December 2000. (5125)
4. Affirmative Instrument—The following instrument was laid before the House for approval by resolution and ordered to lie on the Table:
Draft Broadcasting (Subtitling) Order 2001.
5. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2001— (1325)
(ii) Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) (Amendment) Order 2001— (1326)
laid under the Housing Act 1996;
2. (i) Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 2001— (1235)
(ii) Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2001— (1265)
(iii) Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001— (1324)
(iv) Tax Credits (New Deal Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2001— (1334)
laid under the Social Security and Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
3. Tax Credits (New Deal Consequential Amendments) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001, laid under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992; (1333)
4. Child Support (Civil Imprisonment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001, laid under the Child Support Act 1991; (1236)
5. Police (Recruitment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001, laid under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000. (—)
6. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Statements of guarantee by the Secretary of State for Health on loans proposed to be raised by the following National Health Service Trusts:
(i) Huddersfield Health Care Services—
(iii) Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare—
(iv) Portsmouth HealthCare—
(v) Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals—
(vi) Northampton General Hospital—
(viii) North Tees and Hartlepool—
(ix) Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals—
(x) Priority Healthcare Wearside—
(xi) South Tees Acute Hospitals—
(xii) Tees and North East Yorkshire—
(xiii) Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health—
(xiv) United Bristol Healthcare—
(xv) Northallerton Health Services—
laid under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;
2. Accounts for 1999-2000 of the Film Council Lottery Distribution, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993;
3. Accounts for 1999-2000 of the Clacton and Harwich Education Action Zone, together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, laid under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
Select Committee Reports
7. Statutory Instruments—The 13th Report from the Joint Committee was made on certain statutory instruments; it was ordered that the Report be printed. (HL Paper 62)
8. European Union—The following Reports from the Select Committee were made and ordered to be printed, together with the Minutes of Evidence:
The European Court of Auditors: the case for reform; (12th Report-HL Paper 63)
A Community Immigration Policy. (13th Report-HL Paper 64)
Private Business
9. Medway Council Bill [HL]—The bill was returned from the Commons with the amendment to which the Lords have disagreed not insisted on.
Public Business
10. Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997 (Amnesty Period) Order 2001—It was moved by the Lord Falconer of Thoroton that the draft Order laid before the House on 27th March be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
11. Armed Forces Bill—A bill to continue the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957; to make further provision in relation to the armed forces and the Ministry of Defence Police; and for connected purposes was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 43)
12. Armed Forces Bill—It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 43-EN)
13. Criminal Defence Service (Advice and Assistance) Bill [HL]—The bill was returned from the Commons agreed to.
14. Children’s Commissioner for Wales Bill—The House resolved itself into a Committee upon the bill; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; the House was resumed and the bill was reported without amendment.
15. National Institute for Clinical Excellence—The Baroness Cumberlege asked Her Majesty’s Government whether the progress being made by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in their appraisal of Beta interferons and glatiramer acetates is satisfactory; after debate, the question was answered by the Lord Hunt of King’s Heath.
The House was adjourned at twenty-four minutes past eight o’clock
till tomorrow, two o’clock for judicial business,
half-past two o’clock for public business.
MICHAEL DAVIES
Cler: Parliamentor:
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