Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
2Business Question (Leader of the House)
3Statements: (1) Building homes (Matthew Pennycook)
(2) Outcomes of the qualifications reform review (Janet Daby)
(3) 10 year prison capacity strategy and annual statement (Alex Davies-Jones)
4Lord Etherton's independent review into the treatment of LGBT veterans
Resolved, That this House has considered Lord Etherton's independent review into the treatment of LGBT veterans.—(Secretary John Healey.)
Subject: SEND provision for children and young people with autism and ADHD (Pippa Heylings)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Gerald Jones.)
Adjourned at 4.48 pm until Monday 16 December.
Other Proceedings
General Committees: Reports
6Armed Forces Commissioner Bill Committee
Mr Clive Betts (Chair) reported the Bill without amendment.
Bill, not amended, to be considered tomorrow.
7Employment Rights Bill Committee
Valerie Vaz (Chair) reported written evidence submitted to the Committee.
Written evidence to be published.
8Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Chair) reported:
(1) written evidence submitted to the Committee; and
(2) the Bill without amendment.
Written evidence to be published.
Bill, not amended, to be considered tomorrow.
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).
9Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Asian Development Bank (Thirteenth Replenishment of the Asian Development Fund) Order 2024 and draft Inter-American Investment Corporation (Further Payments to Capital Stock) Order 2024)
Members: Mark Ferguson discharged and Lola McEvoy nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports
10Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Tuesday 7 January in Westminster Hall (Bob Blackman).
11Business and Trade Committee
UK arms exports to Israel: Written evidence, to be published (HC 548) (Liam Byrne).
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 488) (Emily Thornberry).
13Public Accounts (Committee of)
*This item has been corrected since publication. See the Votes and Proceedings relating to Thursday 19 December 2024.
Carbon capture, usage and storage: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 351) (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown).
Sir 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))
Resolved, That this House has considered Disability History Month.—(Jen Craft.)
2Floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea
Resolved, That this House has considered the matter of floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea.—(Jayne Kirkham.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.07 pm until Monday 16 December.
Ms Nusrat Ghani
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
1Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
Draft Gambling Levy Regulations 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Stephanie Peacock)
Draft Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Andrew Gwynne)
Draft Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Georgia Gould)
Draft Space Industry (Licence Exemption for Military Activities of Allies) Regulations 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 1322), dated 11 December 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Shabana Mahmood)
6Government Resources and Accounts
Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) (Amendment) Order 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 1323), dated 11 December 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Darren Jones)
Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 1296), dated 9 December 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Calculation of Small Business Non-Domestic Rating Multiplier) (England) Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 1321), dated 11 December 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (James Murray)
Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 1312), dated 10 December 2024 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Other papers
10Constitutional Reform and Governance
Report and Accounts of the Civil Service Commission for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 496) (Clerk of the House)
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (by Command) (Feryal Clark)
Report and Accounts of the Sea Fish Industry Authority for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 390) (Secretary Steve Reed)
13Government Resources and Accounts
(1) Client Funds Account of the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 426) (Secretary Liz Kendall)
(2) Client Funds Account of the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 425) (Secretary Liz Kendall)
(3) Report and Accounts of Building Digital UK for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 323) (Chris Bryant)
(4) Report and Accounts of Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Overseas Superannuation for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 412) (James Murray)
(5) Report and Accounts of Oak National Academy Limited for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 296) (Catherine McKinnell)
(6) Report and Accounts of the Cabinet Office for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 475) (James Murray)
(7) Report and Accounts of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 533) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
(8) Report and Accounts of the National Forest Company for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument), to be printed (HC 401) (Secretary Steve Reed)
Report and Accounts of the Construction Industry Training Board for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 287) (Janet Daby)
(1) Accounts of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 497) (Anneliese Dodds)
(2) Seventieth Report of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (by Act) (Anneliese Dodds)
Report and Accounts of the Churches Conservation Trust for the year ended 31 March 2024 (by Measure) (Chris Bryant)
Report, Fitness to Practise Report and Financial Statements of the General Optical Council for 2023–24 (by Act), to be printed (HC 262) (Secretary Wes Streeting)
(1) Report and Accounts of the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 466) (Secretary Liz Kendall)
(2) Report and Accounts of the Pensions Regulator for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 249) (Secretary Liz Kendall)
19Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
Annual Report to Parliament on the monitoring programme for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) for 2023 (by Act) (Secretary Steve Reed)
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, done at Tashkent on 31 October 2019, establishing a Partnership between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part (by Command) (CP 1226) (Secretary David Lammy)
Exchange of Notes, done at Seoul on 7 November 2023, amending the Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Korea (by Command) (CP 1227) (Secretary David Lammy)
Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No.190), adopted at Geneva on 21 June 2019, by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (by Command) (CP 1228) (Secretary David Lammy)
Kigali Amendment, done at Kigali on 15 October 2016, to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (by Command) (CP 1229) (Secretary David Lammy)
Withdrawn papers
24Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
Draft Gambling Levy Regulations 2025 with the Explanatory Memorandum (laid 10 December)
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (laid 25 April 2024, in the last Parliament)
Draft Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 with the Explanatory Memorandum (laid 9 December)
CORRECTION
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Item 2 (Papers Laid) should have read:
Environmental Protection
Draft Separation of Waste (England) Regulations 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Secretary Steve Reed)