Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
2Urgent Questions: (1) Food price inflation (Mark Spencer)
(2) Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Anne-Marie Trevelyan)
3Business Question (Leader of the House)
4Deputy Speaker’s Statement: Waiver of sub judice rule in relation to Post Office Horizon compensation
5Statement: Post Office Horizon compensation (Kevin Hollinrake)
The Deputy Speaker reported that the King had signified Royal Assent to the following Acts under the Royal Assent Act 1967:
Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2023
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023
Social Security (Additional Payments) Act 2023
Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Act 2023
UK Infrastructure Bank Act 2023
7Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Eighth Report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, Memorandum of Understanding on scrutiny of the Investment Security Unit, HC 1235 (Darren Jones)
(1) World Down Syndrome Day
Resolved, That this House has considered World Down Syndrome Day.—(Dr Liam Fox.)
(2) Tackling the energy trilemma
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of tackling the energy trilemma.—(Andrea Leadsom.)
Subject: Protection of heritage assets in London (Nickie Aiken)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Jo Churchill.)
Adjourned at 5.27 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Lords Messages
10Electronic Trade Documents Bill [Lords]
The Lords have passed a Bill to make provision about electronic trade documents; and for connected purposes, to which they desire the agreement of the Commons.
First Reading and Printing of Lords Bills
11Electronic Trade Documents Bill [Lords]
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time tomorrow; and to be printed (Bill 280), with Explanatory Notes (Bill 280–EN).
Bill stood referred to a second reading committee (Standing Order No. 59).
Changes to Notices Given
12Elections (Proportional Representation) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill withdrawn.
13Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
14Defamation, Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Data Protection, Legal Services and Private Investigators Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
15Renewable Liquid Heating Fuel Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
16War Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (Public Inquiry) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
17Ministerial Code (Enforcement) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
18Ministerial Interests (Public Appointments) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
19Telecommunications Infrastructure (Consultation) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
20Recognition of Armenian Genocide Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
21Marine Activities (Licensing) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 24 March, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 November.
General Committees: Reports
22Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill Committee
Judith Cummins (Chair) reported:
(1) written evidence submitted to the Committee; and
(2) the Bill without amendment.
Written evidence to be published.
Bill, not amended, to be considered tomorrow.
Select Committees: Reports
23Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Thursday 30 March in Westminster Hall (Ian Mearns).
24Public Accounts (Committee of)
Decarbonising the power sector: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1003) (Dame Meg Hillier).
(1) Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities relating to European Structural and Investment Funds scheme: Written evidence, to be published;
(2) Nuclear energy in Wales: Written evidence, to be published (HC 240)
(Stephen Crabb).
Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 1.30 pm.
Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders No. 10(7) and No. 14(4))
1Whistleblowing Awareness Week
Resolved, That this House has considered Whistleblowing Awareness Week.—(Mary Robinson.)
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of support for women in poverty.—(Jim Shannon.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.06 pm until Monday 27 March.
Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Environment (Local Nature Recovery Strategies) (Procedure) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 341), dated 22 March 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
3Miscellaneous Series No. 1 (2023)
Decision No. 2/2022 of the EEA EFTA-United Kingdom Joint Committee, done at London on 21 September 2022, amending Annex XX to the Agreement on International Mobile Roaming Rates under the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Iceland, the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CP 821) (by Command), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) (Secretary James Cleverly)
Other papers
4Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Plan of the Competition and Markets Authority (by Act) (Secretary Kemi Badenoch)
Local nature recovery strategy statutory guidance: What a local nature recovery strategy should contain (by Act) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
Supporting earlier resolution of private family law arrangements: A consultation on resolving private family disputes earlier through family mediation (CP 824) (by Command) (Secretary Dominic Raab)
Workless households and educational attainment statutory indicators (by Act) (Secretary Mel Stride)
Report and Accounts of National Museums Liverpool for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1187) (Julia Lopez)
CORRECTION
Monday 20 March 2023
Item 29(2) (Other Proceedings) should have read:
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Annual Report and Accounts 2021–22: Forty-fifth Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1254)