Session 2010-12 Volume 244
Journal for 20 October 2010
Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Blackburn.
Select Committee Reports
1 Statutory Instruments
The following Report from the Joint Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
3rd Report on certain statutory instruments, including the following affirmative instruments:
Draft Asylum (First List of Safe Countries) (Amendment) Order 2010
Draft Disabled People’s Right to Control (Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2010
Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Central Africa Interim Economic Partnership Agreement) Order 2010
Draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Côte d’Ivoire Economic Partnership Agreement) Order 2010
Draft Freedom of Information (Time for Compliance with Request) Regulations 2010
Draft Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2010
Draft Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010. (HL Paper 42)
2
Constitution
The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
The Government’s Constitutional Reform Programme. (5th Report, HL Paper 43)
Public Business
3 Taxation: avoidance A question was asked by Lord Foulkes of Cumnock and answered by Lord Sassoon.
4 Northern Ireland: police evidence A question was asked by Lord Cope of Berkeley and answered by Baroness Neville-Jones.
5 Climate change: Cancún A question was asked by the Lord Bishop of Liverpool and answered by Lord Marland.
6 Immigration: Jimmy Mubenga A question was asked by Baroness Neuberger and answered by Baroness Neville-Jones.
7 Spending Review Lord Sassoon repeated a ministerial statement made in the House of Commons.
8 Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil Sanctions) Order 2010 Lord McNally moved that the draft Order laid before the House on 8 April be approved. After debate, the motion was agreed to.
9 Subsidiarity assessment: seasonal workers (EUC Report) Lord Roper moved that this House takes note of the Report of the European Union Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of seasonal employment (COM(2010)379, Council Document 12208/10) (First Report, Session 2010–11, HL Paper 35). After debate, the motion was agreed to.
10 Subsidiarity assessment: seasonal workers (Reasoned opinion) Lord Roper moved to resolve that this House considers that the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of seasonal employment (COM(2010)379, Council Document 12208/10) does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity, for the reasons set out in the First Report of the European Union Committee, Session 2010–11 (HL Paper 35); and instructs the Clerk of the Parliaments to forward this reasoned opinion to the Presidents of the European institutions. The motion was agreed to.
The House adjourned at 7.17pm until Thursday 21 October at 11.00am.