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 24 January 2012

Prayers were read by the Lord Bishop of Manchester.

Select Committee Reports

1 Merits of Statutory Instruments
The following Reports from the Select Committee were made and ordered to be printed.

49th Report (HL Paper 249)
50th Report, Special Report: Scrutiny of Public Bodies Orders. (HL Paper 250)

Public Business

2 House of Lords: reform A question was asked by Lord Grocott and answered by Lord Strathclyde.

3 Falkland Islands A question was asked by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and answered by Lord Howell of Guildford.

4 Child poverty A question was asked by Baroness Massey of Darwen and answered by Lord Freud.

5 Coins A question was asked by Baroness Smith of Basildon and answered by Lord Sassoon.

6 European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Republic of Korea Free Trade Agreement) Order 2012 Lord De Mauley, on behalf of Baroness Wilcox, moved that the draft Order laid before the House on 2 November be approved. The motion was agreed to.

approved, 24 Jan (currently showing)
Draft laid, 20 Jul
withdrawn, 2 Nov
draft laid, 2 Nov
JCSI report, 23 Nov
after debate, referred to GC, 11 Jan
16 Jan
GC, 16 Jan

7 Local Better Regulation Office (Dissolution and Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Order 2012 Lord De Mauley, on behalf of Baroness Wilcox, moved that the draft Order laid before the House on 6 December be approved. The motion was agreed to.

8 Scotland Bill Lord Wallace of Tankerness moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Scotland Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order:

Clauses 1 to 9
Clauses 11 to 44

Clause 10

Schedules 1 to 5.

After debate, the motion was agreed to.

9 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 73. Amendments were agreed to. The House resumed.

10 Iran Lord Howell of Guildford repeated as a ministerial statement the answer given to an Urgent Question in the House of Commons.

11 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 82. Amendments were agreed to. The House resumed.

12 Design education and growth A question was asked by Baroness Whitaker and, after debate, answered by Baroness Wilcox.

The House adjourned. The House resumed.

13 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill The bill was further considered in Committee, beginning with amendment 96. The House resumed after clause 42 was agreed to.

The House adjourned at 10.46pm until Wednesday 25 January at 3.00pm.