Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 2.30 pm.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
2Urgent Question: Scunthorpe Steelworks (Sarah Jones)
3Statements: (1) Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
(2) Israel: Refusal of entry for UK Parliamentarians (Mr Hamish Falconer)
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered road maintenance.—(Secretary Heidi Alexander.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
5Changes to membership of select committees
Ordered, That Andrew Lewin be a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.—(Mark Tami, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Subject: Local authorities and economic growth in the East Midlands (Michael Payne)
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Vicky Foxcroft.)
At 10 pm, the Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 9(3)).
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Vicky Foxcroft.)
Adjourned at 10.15 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
7State-related Deaths (National Oversight Mechanism) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 25 April, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 11 July.
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).
8Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025)
Members: Alex McIntyre discharged and Dr Simon Opher nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports relating to orders for printing made during the adjournment under Standing Order No. 137
Friday 4 April
9Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to industrial action in Birmingham: Written evidence, to be published (Clerk of the House).
Select Committees: Reports made on Monday 7 April
10Environmental Audit Committee
(1) Proposals for the Seventh Carbon Budget: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 815);
(2) Work of the Office for Environmental Protection: Written evidence, to be published (HC 730)
(Mr Toby Perkins).
11International Development Committee
Correspondence with the Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean relating to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Written evidence, to be published (Sarah Champion).
12Public Accounts (Committee of)
(1) Government support for biomass: Twenty-second Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 715);
(2) The cost of the tax system: Twenty-third Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 645);
(3) Work of the Department for Business and Trade: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 818);
(4) Asylum accommodation: Home Office acquisition of former HMP Northeye: Written evidence, to be published (HC 361);
(5) Correspondence from the Chief People Officer at HM Revenue and Customs relating to the HMRC Estates and Locations Programme: Written evidence, to be published;
(6) Correspondence relating to the Committee’s previous Reports: Written evidence, to be published;
(7) Decommissioning Sellafield: Written evidence, to be published (HC 363);
(8) Excess Votes 2023–24: Written evidence, to be published (HC 719);
(9) NHS financial sustainability: Written evidence, to be published (HC 350);
(10) Tackling homelessness: Written evidence, to be published (HC 352)
(Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown).
Correspondence from the Minister of State for Transport relating to Great British Railways consultation: Written evidence, to be published (Ruth Cadbury).
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Papers Laid
Papers presented and delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 4 April under Standing Orders No. 158 and No. 159
Other papers
Explanatory Memorandum to the National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 310) (by Command) (Stephen Kinnock)
Withdrawn papers
Explanatory Memorandum to the National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 310) (laid 10 March)
Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 7 April
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Victim Support (Specified Roles) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 455), dated 2 April 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Shabana Mahmood)
Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 454), dated 7 April 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Other papers
Call for Evidence: Equality Law (by Command) (CP 1291) (Seema Malhotra)
6Political Parties, Elections and Referendums
Second Report of 2025 of the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission: Re-appointment of the Chair of the Electoral Commission (by Act), to be printed (HC 829) (The Speaker)