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Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
2Business Question (Leader of the House)
The Deputy Speaker reported that the King had signified Royal Assent to the following Acts under the Royal Assent Act 1967:
Pedicabs (London) Act 2024
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
4Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Third Special Report from the Education Committee, Ofsted's work with schools: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report, HC 689 (Mr Robin Walker)
(1) Lesbian Visibility Week
Resolved, That this House has considered the importance of Lesbian Visibility Week; and believes LGBTQIA women and non-binary people should be recognised for the work they do and the joy they bring.—(Kate Osborne.)
(2) Buckland Review of Autism Employment
Resolved, That this House has considered the recommendations of the Buckland Review into autism and employment; and urges the Government, businesses and the wider economy to implement them.—(Sir Robert Buckland.)
Subject: Tackling the use of single-use plastics (Sarah Dyke)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr Gagan Mohindra.)
Adjourned at 3.14 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
Order for Second Reading on Friday 26 April, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 14 June.
Select Committees: Reports
Determination of business to be taken on Thursday 2 May in the Chamber (Ian Mearns).
9Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to sanitary and phytosanitary border controls: Written evidence, to be published (Sir Robert Goodwill).
Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 12.30 pm.
Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders No. 10(7) and No. 14(4))
1Health inequalities in liver disease and liver cancer
Resolved, That this House has considered health inequalities in liver disease and liver cancer.—(Navendru Mishra.)
The sitting was suspended between 1.36 pm and 2 pm.
2Ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty
Resolved, That this House has considered the ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty.—(Kevin Foster.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 3.26 pm until Monday 29 April.
Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Julia Lopez)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Notification Requirements: Social Housing) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 553), dated 23 April 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Felicity Buchan)
Other papers
3Constitutional Reform and Governance
Statement relating to the Resolution of the House of Lords 22 January 2024 concerning the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Rwanda for the provision of an asylum partnership to strengthen shared international commitments on the protection of refugees and migrants (by Act) (Secretary James Cleverly)
Explanatory Memorandum to the Draft Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 (by Command) (Secretary Steve Barclay)
5House of Commons Members’ Fund
Account of the House of Commons Members' Fund for 2022–23, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 707) (Clerk of the House)
Treasury Minutes on Government Responses to the Twelfth to Eighteenth Reports of the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2023–24 (by Command) (CP 1070) (Gareth Davies)
Protocol, done at London on 23 February 2021, amending the Convention between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Sweden for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital Gains (by Command) (CP 1065) (David Rutley)
Agreement, done at London on 22 November 2006, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on International Road Transport (by Command) (CP 1066) (David Rutley)
Agreement, done at London on 19 February 2019, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Serbia on International Road Transport (by Command) (CP 1067) (David Rutley)
Agreement, done at London on 17 November 2022, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Swiss Confederation on Mutual Recognition in relation to Conformity Assessment (by Command) (CP 1068) (David Rutley)
Agreement, done at Washington, 14 February 2019, on Mutual Recognition between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America (by Command) (CP 1069) (David Rutley)
Withdrawn papers
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 (laid 16 April)