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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.

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Journal for 8 March 2011

Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Leicester.

1 Lord Glasman Maurice Mark Glasman, Esquire,having been created Baron Glasman, of Stoke Newington and of Stamford Hill in the London Borough of Hackney, for life by Letters Patent dated in the forenoon of 4 February 2011, was introduced between Lord Falconer of Thoroton and Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill, took and subscribed the oath and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct. (See Appendix)

2 The Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich William Nigel Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich was introduced between the Lord Bishop of Chester and the Lord Bishop of Leicester, took and subscribed the oath and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct.

Select Committee Reports

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

24th Report, on the following affirmative instruments:
Draft Employment and Support Allowance (Work-Related Activity) Regulations 2011
Export Control (Amendment) Order 2011
Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2011

and on the following negative instruments:
Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) (Amendment) Order 2011
Libya (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011. (HL Paper 109)

4 European Union Committee
The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:

Amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. (10th Report, HL Paper 110)

5 Human Rights
The following Report from the Joint Committee was made and ordered to be printed:

Draft Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (Remedial) Order 2010 (second Report). (9th Report, HL Paper 111)

Public Business

6 Big Society: women's organisations A question was asked by Baroness Gould of Potternewton and answered by Baroness Warsi.

7 Credit unions A question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark and answered by Lord Sassoon.

8 Women: assistance in pregnancy A question was asked by Baroness Gale and answered by Lord Freud.

9 Insurance: gender discrimination A question was asked by Lord Gordon of Strathblane and answered by Baroness Verma.

10 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 Wednesday 9 March to allow the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill to be taken through its remaining stages that day. The motion was agreed to.

11 Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills Lord Strathclyde moved that it is expedient that a joint committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider and report on the draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills presented to both Houses on 11 February (Cm 8018) and that the committee should report on the draft Bills by 9 June. The motion was agreed to and a message was sent to the Commons.

12 Jobseeker's Allowance (Work Experience) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 Lord Freud moved that the draft Order laid before the House on 26 January be approved. The motion was agreed to.

13 Postal Services Bill The bill was considered in Committee. The House resumed after amendment 7.

The House adjourned. The House resumed.

14 Energy Bill [HL] The report stage was continued, beginning with amendment 167. Amendments were agreed to. The bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 54)

15 Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2011 Baroness Neville-Jones moved that the draft Order laid before the House on 3 February be approved. After debate, the motion was agreed to.

The House adjourned at 8.56pm until Wednesday 9 March at 3.00pm.