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Minutes for 20 June 2018

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The House met at 3.00pm. Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. (at 15:00)
Item number 1
Notification of retirement The Clerk of the Parliaments informed the House that he had received written notice from Lord Fearn under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 stating that he would retire from the House on 11 July 2018.
Item number 2
Statutory Instruments The following Report from the Joint Committee was made and ordered to be printed: Report on certain statutory instruments, including the following affirmative instruments: Draft Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (Business Rate Supplements Functions) Order 2018 Draft Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018 Draft Contracts for… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
Item number 3
International Relations The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed: The United Nations General Assembly 2018. (4th Report, HL Paper 156)
Item number 4
National Health Service: mental health funding A question was asked by Lord Cotter and answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy. (at 15:06)
Item number 5
Brexit: creative sector A question was asked by Baroness Neville-Rolfe and answered by Lord Henley. (at 15:14)
Item number 6
National Health Service: assaults on staff A question was asked by Lord Clark of Windermere and answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy. (at 15:22)
Item number 7
Universal Credit: rollout A question was asked by Baroness Sherlock and answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott. (at 15:29)
Item number 8
Brexit: European Union police databases and extradition arrangements A private notice question was asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town and answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford. (at 15:36)
Item number 9
Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill [HL] Lord Keen of Elie moved that the bill be now read a second time. After debate, the motion was agreed to and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole House. (at 15:49)
Item number 10
Gosport Independent Panel: publication of report Lord O'Shaughnessy repeated a ministerial statement made in the House of Commons. (at 17:41)
Item number 11
Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018 Lord Hunt of Kings Heath moved that this House regrets that the Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018 do not propose any action to be taken in respect of the high cost charged by Concordia and other companies for the drug Liothyronine for the treatment of hypothyroidism thereby depriving patients of the… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 18:16)
The House adjourned. The House resumed. (at 19:19)
Item number 12
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill The bill was returned from the Commons with amendments. It was ordered that the Commons amendments be printed (HL Bill 112). The Commons amendments were considered forthwith and agreed to. (at 19:30)
Item number 13
Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill The Explanatory Notes on the bill were ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 99–EN)
The House adjourned at 7.59pm until Thursday 21 June at 11.00am.
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