House of Lords Journal

The Journal is the formal and authoritative summary record of the proceedings of the House of Lords. Each Journal contains the attendance, minutes (including voting lists) and papers, along with some committee reports, for every day the House sat during a parliamentary session. Each sessional volume is indexed.

Session 2010-12 Volume 244

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Journal for 16 November 2010

Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Blackburn.

Select Committee Reports

1 Merits of Statutory Instruments
The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:

12th Report, on the following affirmative instrument:

Draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010. (HL Paper 59)

Public Business

2 Women: deaths in custody A question was asked by Lord Sheldon and answered by Baroness Northover.

3 Bovine tuberculosis A question was asked by Lord Krebs and answered by Lord Henley.

4 Department of Health A question was asked by Lord Knight of Weymouth and answered by Earl Howe.

5 Welfare reform A question was asked by Lord Christopher and answered by Lord Freud.

6 Business of the House Lord Strathclyde moved that Standing Order 46 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with on Monday 22 November and Wednesday 24 November to allow the Finance (No. 2) Bill and the Equitable Life (Payments) Bill to be taken through all their remaining stages on those days. The motion was agreed to.

Business of the House motion, 16 Nov (currently showing)
1a, 9 Nov
after debate, 2a, Committee negatived, 3a, passed, 22 Nov
RA, 16 Dec

7 Business of the House Lord Strathclyde moved that Standing Order 40 (Arrangement of the Order Paper) be dispensed with today to allow the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill to be taken after the motion in the name of Lord Strathclyde. The motion was agreed to.

8 Public Bodies Bill [HL] Lord Taylor of Holbeach moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Public Bodies Bill [HL] has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order:

Clause 1
Schedule 1
Clause 2
Schedule 2
Clause 3
Schedule 3
Clause 4
Schedule 4

Clause 5
Schedule 5
Clause 6
Schedule 6
Clauses 7 to 11
Schedule 7
Clauses 12 to 31.

The motion was agreed to.

9 Leader's Group on Members leaving the House: interim report Lord Strathclyde moved that this House takes note of the Interim Report from the Leader's Group on Members leaving the House (HL Paper 48). After debate, the motion was agreed to.

10 Redfern inquiry Lord Marland repeated a ministerial statement made in the House of Commons.

11 Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill The debate on the motion that the bill be now read a second time was resumed. After further debate, the motion was agreed to and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

The House adjourned at 9.36pm until Wednesday 17 November at 3.00pm.