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Minutes for 20 July 2020

Chamber

The House met at 1.00pm. Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Chichester. (at 13:00)
Item number 1
Marquessate of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom The Lord Chancellor reported that George Ian Alastair Gordon had established his claim to the Marquessate of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Clerk of the Parliaments was accordingly directed to enter the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair on the register of hereditary peers maintain… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
Item number 2
Consolidation Bills The following Report from the Joint Committee was made and ordered to be printed: Sentencing Bill [HL]. (1st Report, HL Paper 108)
Item number 3
Pharmacies A question was asked by Lord Grade of Yarmouth and answered by Lord Bethell. (at 13:07)
Item number 4
Biodiversity: Aichi Targets A question was asked by Lord Oates and answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. (at 13:18)
Item number 5
Smoking A question was asked by Lord Faulkner of Worcester and answered by Lord Bethell. (at 13:29)
Item number 6
Employment: young people A question was asked by Lord Aberdare and answered by Baroness Berridge. (at 13:39)
The House adjourned. The House resumed. (at 13:51)
Item number 7
British overseas troops: civil liability claims Baroness Goldie answered questions on an answer to an Urgent Question on civil liability claims against the Ministry of Defence by British troops serving overseas, made in the House of Commons on Thursday 16 July. (at 14:00)
The House adjourned. The House resumed. (at 14:11)
Item number 8
Business and Planning Bill The report was received. Amendments 6, 13, 14, 16, 21, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31 to 34, 36, 38, 44, 45, 47 and 49 were agreed to. Amendment 40 was disagreed to (see division 1). The report stage was adjourned after amendment 52. (at 14:45)
Item number 9
Sentencing Bill [HL] The bill was reported from the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills with amendments and re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House. The bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 127)
The House adjourned. The House resumed. (at 19:38)
Item number 10
Business and Planning Bill The report stage was continued, beginning with amendment 53. Amendment 53 was disagreed to (see division 2). Amendments 58, 60, 61 and 62, 64 and 65, 67 to 70, 72 and 73, 75 to 78, 80 and 81, 83 and 84 and 87 to 89 were agreed to. Then, Standing Order 46 having been dispensed with, the bill was read a third time and passed and returned to the Commons wi… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 20:12)
The House adjourned at 10.05pm until Tuesday 21 July at 12 noon.
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