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Votes and Proceedings
Thursday 25 May 2023

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Contents

Chamber business

The House met at 9.30 am.

Prayers

1Questions to (1) the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(2) the Attorney General

2Urgent Question: Net migration figures (Robert Jenrick)

3Business Question (Leader of the House)

4Statements: (1) Patient choice (Secretary Steve Barclay)

(2) New hospitals (Secretary Steve Barclay)

(3) Animal welfare (Mark Spencer)

5Backbench Business

Recognition of the Ukrainian Holodomor

Resolved, That this House believes that the Holodomor was a genocide against the Ukrainian people.—(Mrs Pauline Latham.)

6Business of the House

Ordered, That notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee in respect of the British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before it has been read a second time.—(Ruth Edwards.)

7Adjournment

Subject: Accommodation of asylum seekers off the Wirral peninsula (Mick Whitley)

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Ruth Edwards.)

Adjourned at 4.17 pm until Monday 5 June (Order, 21 March).

Other Proceedings

General Committees: Reports

8Energy Bill [Lords] Committee

Dr Rupa Huq (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.

Written evidence to be published.

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).

9First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Animal By-Products, Pet Passport and Animal Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023)

Members: Peter Gibson and Chris Loder discharged and Jerome Mayhew and Jill Mortimer nominated in substitution.

Select Committees: Reports

10Backbench Business Committee 

Determination of business to be taken on Monday 5 June and Thursday 8 June in the Chamber and Thursday 8 June and Tuesday 13 June in Westminster Hall (Ian Mearns).

11Northern Ireland Affairs Committee         

Correspondence with the Economic Secretary to the Treasury relating to cost of living in Northern Ireland: Written evidence, to be published (Simon Hoare).

12Public Accounts (Committee of)

(1) Bulb Energy: Oral and evidence, to be published (HC 1232);

(2) Supporting investments in the UK: Written evidence, to be published (HC 996)

(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))

1Visa arrangements for inshore industry fishing crews

Resolved, That this House has considered visa arrangements for inshore industry fishing crews.—(Jim Shannon.)

Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).

Adjourned at 3.23 pm until Monday 5 June (Order, 21 March).

Eleanor Laing

Chairman of Ways and Means

Papers Laid

Papers subject to Negative Resolution

1Climate Change

Carbon Accounting (Determination of Excess UK Assigned Amount Units) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 577), dated 25 May 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Grant Shapps)

2Education

School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 571), dated 23 May 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Nick Gibb)

3Income Tax

Income Tax (Accommodation Allowances of Armed Forces) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 570), dated 23 May 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Victoria Atkins)

4Public Services Pension

National Health Service Pension Scheme (Member Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI, 2023, No. 576), dated 25 May 2023 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Will Quince)

5Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Statute, dated 8 February 2023, made by the Governing Body of Linacre College in the University of Oxford, revising the existing Statutes of the College (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Gillian Keegan)

Other papers

6House of Commons Commission

Report of the House of Commons Commission on External members of the House of Commons Commission: Nomination of Candidate, to be printed (HC 1377) (The Speaker)

7Justice

Government Response to the Legal Aid Means Test Review (by Command) (CP 842) (Secretary Alex Chalk)

8Public Service Pensions

National Health Service Pension Scheme (Member Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023: Report detailing the uplifts to the member contribution tier thresholds (by Act) (Will Quince)