Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Speaker’s Statement: Resignation of the Chair of the Education Committee
2Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
3Urgent Question: Cross-channel migrants: Manston facility (Robert Jenrick)
The Speaker suspended the sitting until 12 noon.
5Business Question (Leader of the House)
6Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Third Report from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Exempt accommodation, HC 21 (Mr Clive Betts)
(1) National Food Strategy and food security
Resolved, That this House recognises that food security is a major concern to the British public and that the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis and the conflict in Ukraine has made UK food security more important than ever before; further recognises the strain on the farming sector due to rising farming and energy costs; supports the Government’s ambition to produce a National Food Strategy white paper and recognises the urgent need for its publication; notes that the UK food system needs to become more sustainable; and calls on the Government to recognise and promote alternative proteins in the National Food Strategy, invest in homegrown opportunities for food innovation, back British businesses and help future-proof British farming.—(Esther McVey.)
(2) Guaranteeing the right to maintain contact in care settings
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of guaranteeing the right to maintain contact in care settings.—(Dan Carden.)
Subject: Space requirements for dog daycare in urban areas (Dame Meg Hillier)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mark Jenkinson.)
Adjourned at 5.23 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
9Elected Representatives (Prohibition of Deception) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 28 October, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 March 2023.
General Committees: Reports
10Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill Committee
Hannah Bardell (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.
Written evidence to be published.
11Financial Services and Markets Bill Committee
Dame Maria Miller (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).
12Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill Committee
Chair: Mr Philip Hollobone
13First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Adult Social Care Information (Enforcement) Regulations 2022)
Chair: Sir Edward Leigh
14Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft International Development Association (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) (Amendment) Order 2022 and draft International Development Association (Twentieth Replenishment) Order 2022)
Chair: Mr Virendra Sharma
Members: James Cleverly discharged and Mr Andrew Mitchell nominated in substitution.
15Third Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Drivers’ Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022)
Chair: Esther McVey
16Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (Alcohol Licensing (Coronavirus) (Regulatory Easements) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (SI, 2022, No. 978))
Chair: Mark Pritchard
17Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Football Spectators (Relevant Offences) Regulations 2022)
Chair: Mrs Sheryll Murray
Members: Jerome Mayhew discharged and Duncan Baker nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports
18Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Thursday 3 November in the Chamber and Thursday 3 and Tuesday 8 November in Westminster Hall (Ian Mearns).
19International Trade Committee
UK trade negotiations: Agreement with New Zealand: Written evidence, to be published (HC 78) (Angus Brendan MacNeil).
20Public Accounts (Committee of)
Redevelopment of Defra’s animal health infrastructure: Twenty-fourth Report, to be printed, with formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 42) (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))
1Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D)
Publication of the Twenty-second Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Tackling local air quality before breaches, HC 37 (Dame Meg Hillier)
The sitting was suspended between 1.42 pm and 1.50 pm.
Resolved, That this House has considered Colleges Week 2022.—(Peter Aldous.)
The sitting was suspended between 3.06 pm and 3.10 pm.
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered World Menopause Day.—(Carolyn Harris.)
The Chair announced a time limit on backbench speeches (under the authority of the Chairman of Ways and Means and Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Resolved, That this House has considered World Menopause Day.
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.27 pm until Monday 31 October.
Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Air Quality (Designation of Relevant Public Authorities) (England) Regulations 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Thérèse Coffey)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Draft Liverpool (Electoral Changes) Order 2022 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (The Speaker)
Free Trade Agreement, done at London on 28 February 2022, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and New Zealand (by Command) (CP 750), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) (Secretary James Cleverly)
Other papers
Report and Accounts of the Office for Environmental Protection for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 750) (Trudy Harrison)
5Government Resources and Accounts
(1) Report and Accounts of Companies House for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 427) (Secretary Grant Shapps)
(2) Report and Accounts of the Insolvency Service for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 722) (Secretary Grant Shapps)
Report and Accounts of the Public Prosecution Service for 2021–22, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 559) (The Attorney General)
Report and Accounts of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 2021–22 (by Act) (Secretary Steve Barclay)