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Minutes for 16 October 2018

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Item number 3
Personal social care: funding A question was asked by Baroness Wheeler and answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy. (at 14:37)
Item number 4
Official Development Assistance A question was asked by Lord Collins of Highbury and answered by Lord Bates. (at 14:45)
Item number 5
Private rented sector licensing schemes A question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark and answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth. (at 14:52)
Item number 6
Further education: teachers' pay A question was asked by Baroness Garden of Frognal and answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton. (at 14:59)
Item number 7
Syria–Jordan frontier: Rukban camp A private notice question was asked by Lord Hylton and answered by Lord Bates. (at 15:06)
Item number 8
Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill [HL] The report was received. Amendments 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 13 were agreed to. Amendment 8 was disagreed to (see division). The bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 133) (at 15:18)
Item number 9
Universal Credit Baroness Buscombe repeated as a ministerial statement the answer given to an Urgent Question in the House of Commons. (at 17:11)
Item number 10
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Juveniles) (Amendment) Order 2018 Lord Paddick moved that this House regrets that organisations concerned with the human rights and welfare of children were not consulted about the decision to extend the maximum length of juvenile covert human intelligence sources authorisations from one month to four months, as provided for in the Regulation o… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 17:26)
The House adjourned at 6.28pm until Wednesday 17 October at 3.00pm.
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