HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Thursday 18th May 2006
The House met at eleven o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
Judicial Business
1. Inntrepreneur Pub Company (CPC) and others (Original Appellants and Cross-Respondents) v. Crehan (Original Respondent and Cross-appellant)—The petition of the Office of Fair Trading praying for leave to intervene in the said appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
Papers
2. Command Paper—The following paper, having been presented to the House by command of Her Majesty, was ordered to lie on the Table:
Cabinet Office—Departmental Report for 2006 of the Cabinet Office. (6833)
3. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Fuel-testing Pilot Projects (Biogas Project) Regulations 2006, laid under the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979; (1348)
2. Quarries (Explosives) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, laid under the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978; (—)
3. Planning (National Security Directions and Appointed Representatives) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2006, laid under the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991. (—)
4. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Report of Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland on a thematic inspection of delay in the processing of criminal cases in Northern Ireland, laid under the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;
2. Report and Accounts for 2003-04 of the North Eastern Education and Library Board, laid under the Northern Ireland Act 2000;
3. Report and Accounts for 2005 of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB), laid under the Industrial Training Act 1982.
Select Committee Report
5. Human Rights—The 19th Report from the Joint Committee, The UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), together with Appendices, was made and ordered to be printed. (HL Paper 185)
Public Business
6. Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill—A bill to make provision about registration of electors and the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland; to amend the Northern Ireland Act 1998; to make provision about donations for political purposes; to extend the amnesty period for arms decommissioning in Northern Ireland; and to make miscellaneous amendments in the law relating to Northern Ireland was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 110)
7. Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill—It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 110-EN)
8. Business of the House—It was moved by the Lord Rooker, on behalf of the Lord President (Baroness Amos), that the debate on the motion in the name of the Lord Blackwell set down for today shall be limited to 2½ hours and that in the name of the Lord Vinson to 3 hours; the motion was agreed to.
9. Constitution for Europe (2½-hour debate)—It was moved by the Lord Blackwell that there be laid before the House papers relating to the future of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe; after debate, the motion was (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
10. British agriculture (3-hour debate)—It was moved by the Lord Vinson that there be laid before the House papers relating to the state of British agriculture; after debate, the motion was (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
11. Regulation in the EU (EUC Report)—It was moved by the Lord Grenfell that this House takes note of the Report of the European Union Committee on Ensuring Effective Regulation in the EU (9th Report, HL Paper 33); after debate, the motion was agreed to.
12. Regulation in the EU: Follow-up (EUC Report)—It was moved by the Lord Grenfell that this House takes note of the Report of the European Union Committee on Ensuring Effective Regulation in the EU: Follow-up Report (31st Report, HL Paper 157); the motion was agreed to.
13. Social Security (Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance) Amendment Regulations 2006—It was moved by the Lord Evans of Temple Guiting that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 24th April be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
The House was adjourned at three minutes past seven o’clock till tomorrow, eleven o’clock.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments | 
