House of Lords Journal

Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham.

Select Committee Report

1 Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform
The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:

22nd Report on the following bill:
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (Government response). (HL Paper 241)

Private Business

2 Special Procedure Order The following petitions were deposited against the Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility) Order 2011 on or before 19 December 2011:

Name of Petitioner

By whom deposited

1. Ampthill Town Council [General Objection]
2. Aspley Guise Parish Council [General Objection]
3. Aspley Guise Parish Council [Amendment]
4. Aspley Heath Parish Council [General Objection]
5. Brogborough Parish Council [General Objection]
6. Brogborough Parish Council [Amendment]
7. Cranfield Parish Council [General Objection]
8. Cranfield Parish Council [Amendment]
9. Flitwick Town Council [General Objection]
10. Harlington Parish Council [General Objection]
11. Hockcliffe Parish Council [General Objection]
12. Houghton Conquest Parish Council [General Objection]
13. Houghton Regis Town Council [General Objection]
14. Hulcote and Salford Parish Council [General Objection]
15. Hulcote and Salford Parish Council [Amendment]
16. Husborne Crawley Parish Council [General Objection]
17. Husborne Crawley Parish Council [Amendment]
18. Kempston Town Council [General Objection]
19. Leighton-Linslade Town Council [General Objection]
20. Lidlington Parish Council [General Objection]
21. Lidlington Parish Council [Amendment]
22. Marston Moreteyne Parish Council [General Objection]
23. Marston Moreteyne Parish Council [Amendment]
24. Millbrook Parish Meeting [General Objection]
25. Millbrook Parish Meeting [Amendment]
26. Ridgmont Parish Council [General Objection]
27. Ridgmont Parish Council [Amendment]
28. Stewartby Parish Council [General Objection]
29. Stewartby Parish Council [Amendment]
30. Toddington Parish Council [General Objection]
31. Woburn Parish Council [General Objection]
32. Woburn Sands Town Council [General Objection]
33. Wootton Parish Council [General Objection]
34. Wootton Parish Council [Amendment]
35. Waste Recycling Group Limited, WRG Waste Services Limited and Anti Waste Limited [Amendment]
36. Central Bedfordshire Council [General Objection]
37. Central Bedfordshire Council [Amendment]
38. Bedford Borough Council [General Objection]
39. Bedford Borough Council [Amendment]

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Public Business

3 Health and Social Care Bill Standing Order 40(1) having been dispensed with, the bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 327ZC. Amendments were agreed to. The debate on amendment 338 was adjourned. The House resumed.

The House adjourned. The House resumed.

4 Thames Tunnel A question was asked by Lord Berkeley and answered by Lord Taylor of Holbeach.

5 Public disorder: uninsured claimants A question was asked by Lord Clement-Jones and answered by Lord Henley.

6 Energy: Winter Fuel Payment A question was asked by Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay and answered by Lord Freud.

7 Immigration A question was asked by Lord Taverne and answered by Lord Henley.

8 Open-Ended Investment Companies (Amendment) Regulations 2011 Lord Sassoon moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 21 November be approved. The motion was agreed to.

9 Elected Local Policing Bodies (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2011 Lord Henley moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 14 November be approved. The motion was agreed to.

10 Local Policing Bodies (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2011 Lord Henley moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 21 November be approved. The motion was agreed to.

12 Health and Social Care Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with the resumed debate on amendment 338. The House resumed.

13 Independent Commission on Banking Lord Sassoon repeated a ministerial statement made in the House of Commons.

14 Health and Social Care Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with the question that clause 206 be agreed to. Amendments were agreed to. The House resumed after Schedule 18 was agreed to.

15 Money laundering (EUC Report) A question was asked by Lord Hannay of Chiswick and, after debate, answered by Lord Henley.

The House adjourned at 8.37pm until Tuesday 20 December at 2.30pm.