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Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for International Trade
2Urgent Question: British Council staff in Afghanistan (Amanda Milling)
3Business Question (Leader of the House)
(1) Judgment of the Uyghur Tribunal
Resolved, That this House notes that the December 2021 Uyghur Tribunal’s judgment in London found beyond reasonable doubt that the People’s Republic of China was responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and torture in the Uyghur region; and calls on the Government to urgently assess whether it considers there to be a serious risk of genocide in the Uyghur region and to present its findings to the House within two months of this motion being passed, use all means reasonably available to ensure the cessation of ongoing genocide, including conducting due diligence to ensure it is not assisting, aiding, abetting or otherwise allowing the continuation of genocide and fulfil its other obligations under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, accept the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang and UK value chains, Session 2019–21, HC 1272, including black-listing UK firms selling slave-made products in the UK and putting in place import controls to protect UK consumers, and place sanctions on the perpetrators of this genocide, including Chen Quanguo.—(Ms Nusrat Ghani.)
(2) Lawfare and the UK court system
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of lawfare and the UK court system.—(Mr David Davis.)
Subject: Detention of people with autism and other lifelong conditions under the Mental Health Act 1983 (Sir Robert Buckland)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Amanda Solloway.)
Adjourned at 5.28 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
6Barnett Formula (Replacement) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
7Housing Standards (Refugees and Asylum Seekers) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
8Asylum Seekers (Permission to Work) (No. 2) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
9Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (Powers) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
10Under-Occupancy Penalty (Report) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
11Social Security Benefits (Healthy Eating) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
12Benefit Sanctions (Warnings) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
13Universal Credit Sanctions (Zero Hours Contracts) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
14Asylum Seekers (Accommodation Eviction Procedures) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
15Disability Benefit Assessments (Recording) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
17Health and Safety at Work Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
19Workers (Rights and Definition) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 28 January.
20Kinship Care (Parental Leave) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 25 February.
21Automated External Defibrillators (Public Access) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 21 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 4 February.
Reports from Select Committees
22Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Thursday 27 January in the Chamber and Thursday 27 January and Tuesday 1 February in Westminster Hall (Ian Mearns).
23Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
The Draft Online Safety Bill and the legal but harmful debate: Eighth Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 1039) (Julian Knight).
24Health and Social Care Committee
(1) Cancer services: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 551);
(2) NHS litigation reform: Written evidence, to be published (HC 740)
(Jeremy Hunt).
Correspondence with the Prime Minister relating to his appearance before the Committee on 17 November 2021: Written evidence, to be published (HC 835) (Sir Bernard Jenkin).
26Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
(1) The work of the Cabinet Office: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 41);
(2) Coronavirus Act 2020 two years on: Written evidence, to be published (HC 978)
(Mr William Wragg).
Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 1.30 pm.
Liaison Committee business (Standing Order No. 10(7))
(1) The work of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator
Resolved, That this House has considered the Nineteenth Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2017–19, The work of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator, HC 1970, and the Government Response, Session 2019–21, HC 1319.—(Greg Clark.)
The sitting was suspended between 2.47 pm and 3.00 pm.
Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders No. 10(7) and No. 14(4))
(2) UK and Israel trade negotiations
Resolved, That this House has considered UK and Israel trade negotiations.—(Bob Blackman.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.27 pm until Monday 24 January.
Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary George Eustice)
Other papers
Report and Accounts of the Sea Fish Industry Authority for 2020–21, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 778) (Secretary George Eustice)
3Government Resources and Accounts
Report and Accounts of the Ministry of Defence for 2020–21, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 629) (Lucy Frazer)
Report and Accounts of the Care Quality Commission for 2020–21, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1009) (Maria Caulfield)
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Houses of Parliament: Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Progress update (by Act), to be printed (HC 1016) (Clerk of the House)
Fourth Report on the Use of the Petition of Concern Mechanism in the Northern Ireland Assembly (by Act) (CP 599) (Secretary Brandon Lewis)
Treasury Minutes on the Government responses to the Twenty-Second to the Twenty-Sixth Reports of the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2021–22 (by Command) (CP 603) (Helen Whately)
Accounts of the Dartford–Thurrock River Crossing Charging Scheme for 2020–21, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 999) (Secretary Grant Shapps)
CORRECTION
Wednesday 19 January 2022
The following item should have appeared before item 1 (Papers laid):
Ecclesiastical Law
Draft Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Nigel Huddleston)