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Minutes for 29 January 2024

Chamber

The House met at 2.30pm. Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of London. (at 14:30)
Item number 1
Communications and Digital The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed: Large language models and generative AI. (1st Report, HL Paper 54)
Item number 2
Cancer research: funding gap A question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath and answered by Viscount Camrose. (at 14:37)
Item number 3
Care of critically ill children A question was asked by Lord Balfe and answered by Lord Markham. (at 14:48)
Item number 4
Emergency Services Network: critical communications system A question was asked by Lord Harris of Haringey and answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom. (at 14:56)
Item number 5
RAF Aerobatic Team: historical allegations A question was asked by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent and answered by the Earl of Minto. (at 15:04)
Item number 6
Representation of the People (Postal and Proxy Voting etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Baroness Penn moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 11 December 2023 be approved. The motion was agreed to. (at 15:09)
Item number 7
Financial Services Act 2021 (Overseas Funds Regime and Recognition of Parts of Schemes) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2024 The Earl of Courtown, on behalf of Baroness Vere of Norbiton, moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 4 December 2023 be approved. The motion was agreed to en bloc. (at 15:10)
Item number 8
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Prescription of Non-Domestic Rating Multipliers) (England) Regulations 2023 The Earl of Courtown, on behalf of Baroness Vere of Norbiton, moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 11 December 2023 be approved. The motion was agreed to en bloc. (at 15:10)
Item number 9
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Lord Stewart of Dirleton, on behalf of Lord Sharpe of Epsom, moved that the bill be now read a second time. Then Lord German moved, as an amendment to the motion, to leave out from “that” to the end and insert “this House declines to give the bill a second reading because it (1) places the United Kingdom at risk of breaching its inte… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 15:10)
The House adjourned at 9.44pm until Tuesday 30 January at 2.30pm.

Grand Committee

The Grand Committee met in the Moses Room at 3.45pm.

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill The Grand Committee further considered the bill, beginning with amendment 64. Amendments 73, 74, 75 and 78 were agreed to. The Committee adjourned after amendment 79. (at 15:45)
The Committee adjourned at 7.51pm.
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