Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 2.30 pm.
Prayers
1Questions to the Home Secretary
2Urgent Questions: (1) Gas storage levels (Michael Shanks)
(2) United States' determination of genocide in Sudan (Anneliese Dodds)
3Statements: (1) Publication of the AI Opportunities Action Plan (Secretary Peter Kyle)
(2) Live events ticketing: Resale and pricing consultation (Sir Chris Bryant)
4Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Second Report of the Defence Committee, Developing AI capacity and expertise in UK Defence, HC 590 (Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck)
5Rural Crime (Strategy) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Ben Maguire presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to establish a task force to produce a strategy for tackling rural crime; to require the Secretary of State to implement the strategy; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 4 July, and to be printed (Bill 158).
Hospice and palliative care
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered hospice and palliative care.—(Mr Paul Kohler.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
7Changes to membership of select committees
(1) Ordered, That Ms Julie Minns be discharged from the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee and Mike Reader be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
(2) Ordered, That Aphra Brandreth be discharged from the Welsh Affairs Committee and Simon Hoare be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Subject: Impact of sixth form college strikes in Sussex on students (Alison Bennett)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Anna Turley.)
Adjourned at 10.24 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
9Registration of Death (Religion) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 17 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 7 March.
Order for Second Reading on Friday 17 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 7 March.
11Rivers, Streams and Lakes (Protected Status) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 17 January, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 24 January.
General Committees: Reports
12First Delegated Legislation Committee
Graham Stringer (Chair) reported the draft Registrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024 and draft Unique Identifiers (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024.
13Second Delegated Legislation Committee
Martin Vickers (Chair) reported the draft Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024.
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).
14First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Registrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024 and draft Unique Identifiers (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024)
Members: David Reed discharged and Katie Lam nominated in substitution.
15Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Free-Range Egg Marketing Standards (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024)
Members: Pam Cox, George Freeman and Jake Richards discharged and Charlie Dewhirst, Samantha Niblett and Gregor Poynton nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports relating to orders for printing made during the adjournment under Standing Order No. 137
Friday 10 January
16Business and Trade Committee
Make work pay: Employment Rights Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 370) (Clerk of the House).
17Human Rights (Joint Committee on)
Accountability for Daesh crimes: Written evidence, to be published (HC 612) (Clerk of the House).
Select Committees: Reports made on Monday 13 January
18Business and Trade Committee
Make work pay: Employment Rights Bill: Written evidence, to be published (HC 370) (Liam Byrne).
(1) The work of the British Council: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 609);
(2) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Written evidence, to be published (HC 488)
(Emily Thornberry).
20Public Accounts (Committee of)
(1) Condition and maintenance of local roads in England: Second Report, to be printed, with the formal minutes relating to the Report (HC 349);
(2) Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 365)
(Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown).
21Science Innovation and Technology Committee
Innovation, growth and the regions: Written evidence, to be published (HC 538) (Chi Onwurah).
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 4.30 pm.
Debate on an e-petition (Standing Orders No. 10(1)(a) and No. 145A(7))
1Children’s social media accounts
Resolved, That this House has considered e-petition 661407 relating to children's social media accounts.—(Lewis Atkinson.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 6.42 pm until tomorrow.
Ms Nusrat Ghani
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers presented and delivered to the Votes and Proceedings Office on Friday 10 January under Standing Orders No. 158 and No. 159
Other papers
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Lancashire Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (by Command) (Jim McMahon)
Withdrawn papers
Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Lancashire Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (laid 26 November 2024)
Papers presented or laid upon the Table on Monday 13 January
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Ian Murray)
Draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Matthew Pennycook)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Framework Agreement, done at Baku on 20 November 2024, for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (by Command) (CP 1246) with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Act) (Secretary David Lammy)
Other papers
6Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Draft Plan of the Competition and Markets Authority for 2025–26 (by Act) (Secretary Jonathan Reynolds)
7Science, Innovation and Technology
(1) AI Opportunities Action Plan (by Command) (CP 1241) (Secretary Peter Kyle)
(2) Government Response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan (by Command) (CP 1242) (Secretary Peter Kyle)
CORRECTION
Tuesday 7 January 2025
The following item should have appeared after item 28 (Select Committees: Reports):
Finance Committee
Record of the Committee’s decisions taken at its meeting on 7 January, to be published (Mr Steve Barclay).