Skip to main content

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.

Journal for 24 May 2011

Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Blackburn.

1 Royal Assent The Lord Speaker (Baroness Hayman) notified the Queen’s Assent to the following Measures:

Care of Cathedrals Measure

No. 1

Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure

No. 2

Mission and Pastoral Measure

No. 3

Select Committee Report

2 Merits of Statutory Instruments
The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
32nd Report, on the following negative instruments:
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display and Specialist Tobacconists) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011. (HL Paper 153)

Public Business

3 House of Lords: membership A question was asked by Lord Grocott and answered by Lord Strathclyde.

4 Education: English Baccalaureate A question was asked by Lord Anderson of Swansea and answered by Lord Hill of Oareford.

5 Crime: homeowners' liability A question was asked by Baroness Gardner of Parkes and answered by Lord McNally.

6 Crime: rape A question was asked by Lord Bach and answered by Lord McNally.

7 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) The Chairman of Committees moved that Lord Haskel be appointed to the Board of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) in place of Lord Taylor of Warwick. The motion was agreed to.

8 Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Monetary Penalty Notices and Consents for Interceptions) Regulations 2011 Baroness Verma moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 6 April be approved. The motion was agreed to.

9 Postal Services Bill Lord Strathclyde signified the Queen's Consent. The bill was read a third time. An amendment was agreed to. Then the bill was passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.

10 Fixed-term Parliaments Bill The bill was read a third time and, after debate, passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.

11 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 26. An amendment was agreed to. The House resumed.

12 The conflict in Libya Lord Astor of Hever repeated as a ministerial statement the answer given to an Urgent Question in the House of Commons.

The House adjourned. The House resumed.

13 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 40. The House resumed after amendment 80A.

The House adjourned at 12.14am on Wednesday 25 May until 10.00am the same day.