Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
2Urgent Question: Foreign worker visas: fishing industry (Miss Sarah Dines)
3Business Question (Leader of the House)
4Statement: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Mr Andrew Mitchell)
(1) International trade and geopolitics
Resolved, That this House has considered international trade and geopolitics.—(Darren Jones.)
(2) Human rights protections for Palestinians
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of human rights protections for Palestinians.—(Chris Law.)
A public petition from residents of the United Kingdom relating to a special school in Biddulph was presented and read by Karen Bradley.
Subject: Freehold management and service charges (Richard Fuller)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Jo Churchill.)
Adjourned at 5.27 pm until Monday 24 April.
Other Proceedings
General Committees: Appointments
The Speaker appoints the Chair of General Committees and members of Programming Sub-Committees, and allocates Statutory Instruments to Delegated Legislation Committees.
The Committee of Selection nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees).
8First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Register of Overseas Entities (Definition of Foreign Limited Partner, Protection and Rectification) Regulations 2023)
Chair: Yvonne Fovargue
Members: Mrs Natalie Elphicke discharged and Craig Whittaker nominated in substitution.
9Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Code of Practice on the Recording and Retention of Personal Data in relation to Non-Crime Hate Incidents)
Chair: Sir Robert Syms
Members: Jackie Doyle-Price discharged and Alec Shelbrooke nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports
10Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May in the Chamber and Thursday 27 April in Westminster Hall (Ian Mearns).
11Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets: Written evidence, to be published (HC 306) (Darren Jones).
12Public Accounts (Committee of)
Progress improving mental health services: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 1000) (Dame Meg Hillier).
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))
Resolved, That this House has considered land mine awareness.—(Wendy Morton.)
The sitting was suspended between 2.48 pm and 3.00 pm.
2Economic contribution of medicinal cannabis
Resolved, That this House has considered the economic contribution of medicinal cannabis.—(David Mundell.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.17 pm until Monday 24 April.
Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft REACH (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
Draft Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
3International Immunities and Privileges
Draft International Criminal Police Organisation (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (David Rutley)
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 440), dated 18 April 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Mr Andrew Mitchell)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 449), dated 20 April 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Neil O'Brien)
Other papers
State of the Estate in 2021–22 (by Act) (Alex Burghart)
Business Plan of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, April 2023 to March 2026 (by Act) (Secretary Grant Shapps)
Report of Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations Exemption Orders for 2020 (by Act) (Secretary Mark Harper)
Report and Accounts of the Independent Office for Police Conduct for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1304) (Secretary Suella Braverman)
National Audit Office: Main Supply Estimate (by Act), to be printed (HC 1253) (Clerk of the House)
Report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration: An inspection of visit visa operations: December 2022–January 2023 (by Act) (Secretary Suella Braverman)
CORRECTION
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Item 16 (3) (Other Proceedings) should have read:
Expert Panel: evaluation of Government’s commitments in the area of the health and social care workforce: Government Response to the Committee's Third Special Report of Session 2022–23: Seventh Special Report, to be printed (HC 1290);