Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Private Bills: Norwich Livestock Market Bill [Lords]: Second Reading
Bill read a second time.
2Questions to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
3Business Question (Leader of the House)
4Statements: (1) Gibraltar Agreement (Secretary David Lammy)
(2) Health and Social Care Spending Review 2025 Settlement (Karin Smyth)
5Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Seventh Report from the Business and Trade Committee, Industrial Strategy, HC 727 (Liam Byrne)
(1) Distribution of SEND funding
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the distribution of SEND funding.—(Graham Stuart.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
(2) Fifth anniversary of the covid-19 pandemic
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the fifth anniversary of the covid-19 pandemic.—(James Asser.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
Subject: Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Chris McDonald)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Kate Dearden.)
Adjourned at 5.25 pm until tomorrow.
Other Proceedings
Lords Messages
8Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
The Lords do not insist on their Amendments to the Armed Forces Commissioner Bill to which the Commons have disagreed; they disagree with the Amendment proposed by the Commons in lieu of Lords Amendments; and they propose Amendments in lieu of that Amendment to which they desire the agreement of the Commons.
9Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]
The Lords do not insist on their Amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] to which the Commons have disagreed; and they agree without amendment to the Amendments proposed by the Commons in lieu of that Lords Amendment.
Printing of Lords Messages
10Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
Lords Message to be considered tomorrow, and to be printed (Bill 262).
Explanatory Notes to Bills
11Public Sector Exit Payments (Limitation) Bill
Explanatory Notes to the Bill to be printed (Bill 105–EN).
Changes to Notices Given
12Child Criminal Exploitation (No. 2) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 13 June, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 20 June.
13Ceramics (Country of Origin Marking) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 13 June, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 11 July.
General Committees: Reports
14Mental Health Bill [Lords] Committee
Martin Vickers (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).
15First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Casinos (Gaming Machines and Mandatory Conditions) Regulations 2025)
Members: Saqib Bhatti discharged and Mr Louie French nominated in substitution.
16Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) (Threshold Amount) (Amendment) Order 2025)
Members: Keir Mather discharged and Mark Tami nominated in substitution.
17Third Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025)
Members: Mr Louie French discharged and Saqib Bhatti nominated in substitution.
Select Committees: Reports
18Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Tuesday 1 July and Thursday 3 July in Westminster Hall (Bob Blackman).
19Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
Correspondence with the Secretary of State: Written evidence, to be published (Bill Esterson).
20Public Accounts (Committee of)
Collecting the right tax from wealthy individuals: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 827) (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))
1Recognition of humanist marriages
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered the matter of recognition of humanist marriages.—(Sarah Edwards.)
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 the matter of recognition of humanist marriages.
The sitting was suspended between 2.56 and 3 pm.
Resolved, That this House has considered long-term conditions.—(Peter Prinsley.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4.25 pm until Monday 16 June.
Ms Nusrat Ghani
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Immigration (Exemption from Control) (Amendment) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 663), dated 5 June 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Yvette Cooper)
Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 661), dated 9 June 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (Exemption from Stamp Duties) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 666), dated 10 June 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Emma Reynolds)
4Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Statute, dated 4 April 2025, made by the Governing Body of Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge, revising the existing Statutes of the College (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Bridget Phillipson)
Other papers
Report and Accounts of the Office of the Small Business Commissioner for 2023–24, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 726) (Gareth Thomas)
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Cabinet Office: Investigation into the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (by Act), to be printed (HC 951) (Clerk of the House)
7Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions
(1) Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Maltese Locally Engaged Ratings’ Service Pensions Increase) Order for 2025 (by Act) (Secretary John Healey)
(2) Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Maltese Locally Engaged Ratings’ Service Pensions Increase) (No. 2) Order for 2025 (by Act) (Secretary John Healey)
Report and Accounts of the Parliamentary Works Grant for 2024–25, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, to be printed (HC 968) (Clerk of the House)
SPEAKER’S CERTIFICATE
VOTING BY PROXY (STANDING ORDER NO. 39A)
(Variations to existing arrangements appear in bold.)
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Member |
From |
To |
Proxy |
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Satvir Kaur |
11 December 2024 |
11 July |
Darren Paffey (13 June only), Chris Elmore (thereafter) |