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Votes and Proceedings
Thursday 19 May 2022

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Contents

Chamber business

The House met at 9.30 am.

Prayers

1Sessional Returns

Ordered, That there be laid before this House Returns for Session 2021–22 of information and statistics relating to:

1. Business of the House

2. Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question, Allocation of Time and Programming of Bills

3. Sittings of the House

4. Private Bills and Private Business

5. Public Bills

6. Delegated Legislation and Legislative Reform Orders

7. European Legislation, etc

8. Grand Committees and the Regional Affairs Committee

9. Panel of Chairs

10. Select Committees.—(Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)

2Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

3Urgent Question: Food price inflation (Secretary George Eustice)

4Business Question (Leader of the House)

5Transport

Resolved, That this House has considered transport.—(Andrew Stephenson.)

6NATO and international security

Resolved, That this House has considered NATO and international security.—(Secretary Ben Wallace.)

7Public petitions

A public petition from residents of the constituency of Rother Valley relating to Waverley Junior Academy was presented and read by Alexander Stafford.

8Adjournment

Subject: East Suffolk and Wherry railway lines (Peter Aldous)

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Adjourned at 5.28 pm until Monday 23 May.

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).

9Public Order Bill

Chairs: Peter Dowd and David Mundell

10Online Safety Bill (Programming Sub-Committee)

Members: Kirsty Blackman, Alex Davies-Jones, Steve Double, Mr Richard Holden, Navendu Mishra, Chris Philp and Dean Russell

11First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022)

Chair: Steve McCabe

12Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022)

Chair: Hannah Bardell

Members: Mark Fletcher discharged and Paul Scully nominated in substitution.

13Third Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Public Procurement (International Trade Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2022)

Chair: Stewart Hosie

14Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022)

Chair: Judith Cummins

Members: Stephen Kinnock discharged and Sarah Jones nominated in substitution.

Select Committees: Reports

15Defence Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee and International Trade Committee

(1) Correspondence with HMRC relating to compound settlements: Written evidence, to be published;

(2) Correspondence with the Secretary of State for International Trade relating to the Strategic Export Licensing update: Written evidence, to be published;

(3) UK arms exports in 2019: Written evidence, to be published (HC 282)

(Mark Garnier).

16Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

The work of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 158) (Julian Knight).

Lindsay Hoyle

Speaker

Westminster Hall

The sitting began at 1.30 pm.

Business appointed by the Chairman of Ways and Means (Standing Order No. 10(6))

1Reforms to the Child Maintenance Service

Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of reforms to the Child Maintenance Service.—(Marion Fellows.)

The sitting was suspended between 2.41 pm and 3.00 pm.

2Dialysis care outcomes

Resolved, That this House has considered dialysis care outcomes.—(Jim Shannon.)

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

Adjourned at 4.06 pm until Monday 23 May.

Eleanor Laing

Chairman of Ways and Means

Papers Laid

Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution

1Animals

Draft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary George Eustice)

2Health and Personal Social Services

Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022 (SI, 2022, No. 554), dated 18 May 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Brandon Lewis)

Papers subject to Negative Resolution

3Local Government

(1) Draft Derbyshire Dales (Electoral Changes) Order 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (The Speaker)

(2) Draft Mansfield (Electoral Changes) Order 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (The Speaker)

(3) Draft Oldham (Electoral Changes) Order 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (The Speaker)

4Tax Credits

Tax Credits and Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (SI, 2022, No. 555), dated 18 May 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Simon Clarke)

Other papers

5Justice

Government Response to Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney (by Command) (CP 677) (Secretary Dominic Raab)

6Work and Pensions

Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System (by Command) (CP 679) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)