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Weekly Information Bulletin: 23rd November 2002

PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS

The ballot for Private Members' bills took place on Thursday 21 November 2002 (second sitting Thursday of the session).

The 20 Members who were successful are listed below:

Position	Member	Party	Constituency
1	Mark Todd	Labour	South Derbyshire
2	David Cairns	Labour	Greenock & Inverclyde
3	Bill Tynan	Labour	Hamilton South
4	Edward Garnier QC	Conservative	Harborough
5	Joan Ruddock	Labour	Lewisham, Deptford
6	Brian White	Labour	North East Milton Keynes
7	Ann Clwyd	Labour	Cynon Valley
8	Archie Norman	Conservative	Tunbridge Wells
9	Frank Roy	Labour	Motherwell & Wishaw
10	Keith Simpson	Conservative	Mid Norfolk
11	Stephen McCabe	Labour	Birmingham, Hall Green
12	Chris Mole	Labour	Ipswich
13	John Greenway	Conservative	Ryedale
14	Stephen Pound	Labour	Ealing North
15	John Bercow	Conservative	Buckingham
16	Richard Allan	Liberal Democrat	Sheffield, Hallam
17	Dr Brian Iddon	Labour	Bolton South East
18	Bridget Prentice	Labour	Lewisham East
19	Stephen O'Brien	Conservative	Eddisbury
20	Hugh Robertson	Conservative	Faversham & Mid Kent

Private Members' Bills will be presented on 11 December 2002, the 5^th sitting Wednesday of the session.

Copies of Factsheet L2, Private Members' Bill Procedure, and Factsheet L3, Success of Private Members' Bills are available on the Parliamentary website at:

http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/factsheets.cfm

or on request from the House of Commons Information Office, London SW1A 2TT

Tel: 020 7219 4272

Fax: 020 7219 5839

E-mail: hcinfo@parliament.uk

LEGISLATION - GENERAL NOTES

In the list of Bills which follows, the type of Bill is shown at the left-hand margin below the title by the following codes:

G Government Bills

C Consolidation Bills

B Private Members' Bills (under the ballot procedure). The number after refers to position in ballot

P Private Members' Bills (under SO No 57)

T Private Members' Bills (under the Ten Minute Rule, SO No 23)

L Private Members' Bills starting in the House of Lords

Abbreviations:

1R First Reading: date of presentation (no debate at this stage except for Class T Bills, which have short introductory speeches)

2R Second Reading (the debate on the principle of the Bill)

MR Money Resolution (normally taken after 2R: shown below only if taken at another time)

SRC Second Reading Committee (2R taken in Committee: formal 2R in whole House next day unless otherwise stated)

SGC/WGC Scottish or Welsh Grand Committee consideration of principle (equates with SRC)

PC Programming Committee (sits in private)

PSC Programming Sub-Committee (sits in private)

Comm Committee Stage (the detailed examination of the Bill). If no committee is named (eg SC A) a committee of the whole House is indicated

Comm** House of Lords Committee of the Whole House, taken in a committee room. Debate published in daily Hansard

JCCB Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills

PBC Public Bill Committee (committee Stage in the House of Lords, when the consideration is not undertaken by a committee of the whole House)

SPBC Special Public Bill Committee (committee Stage in the House of Lords, when the consideration is not undertaken by a committee of the whole House. Public evidence is taken)

SSC/SSSC Special Standing Committee (Special Scottish Standing Committee) on a Bill, where public evidence is taken

SC A, (B, etc) Standing Committee A, B, etc

CN Committee negatived. (Indicates that there was no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)

OCD Order of Commitment discharged (no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)

Rep Report Stage (detailed review of the Bill as amended in committee)

3R Third Reading (final debate on the Bill)

RS Remaining Stages (Report Stage and Third Reading taken on the same day)

LA Lords' Amendments considered in the House of Commons

CA Commons' Amendments considered in the House of Lords

1st(2nd)Scot SC 1st (2nd) Scottish Standing Committee

GM Allocation of Time Motion (Guillotine motion)

Prog Programme Motion

PSelRep: Bill referred to a Select Committee; date refers to the date the Committee will report by

[HL] Indicates a Bill which started in the House of Lords

HYBRID BILL A Public Bill which affects the private interests of particular persons or corporate bodies as distinct from the private interests of all persons or bodies

PROPOSED BILL Indicates that a motion for leave to bring in a Bill under the Ten Minute Rule (SO No 23) was negatived

Prov 2R (Rep, 3R) Provisional date for 2nd Reading of a Bill etc. For Private Members' Bills (if set down for a Private Members Bill Friday) this is followed, by the position of the Bill in the order of business for that day, thus giving some indication of the likelihood of debate.

Pri Private

Asterisk means that proceedings were formal, with no debate

Dropped - a day for the next reading has not been named or time has run out for the Bill to be considered

Order for 2^nd Reading lapsed - the Bill has not been printed, therefore does not appear on the order paper on the named day

Withdrawn - Member in charge has withdrawn the Bill

# - Member in charge has named a date for consideration which is not a Private Members' Bill Friday, therefore the Bill will not be debated.

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLIC BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT THIS SESSION

The following is a list of Public Bills which are before Parliament this session, with the exception of Order Confirmation Bills.

In order to save space, the list is in an abbreviated form. The title of the Bill is followed by the name of the Member and/or Peer sponsoring it. Under this, at the left hand margin, the letter denotes the type of Bill (see Legislation - General Notes). This is followed by the Bill number (or Bill numbers if it has been reprinted as amended, with the original first and the latest reprinting last). Then follow the dates of the various stages (eg 8.11 - 8 November). All forthcoming, and therefore provisional, dates are italicised. Government Bills are listed in bold type.

For an explanation of Parliamentary consideration of Public Bills see HCIO Factsheets L1 and L2

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT (INSPECTIONS) [HL] (G) Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean

Lords: (2) 1R: 14.11.2002 Prov 2R: 26.11.2002

COMMUNICATIONS (G) Tessa Jowell

Commons: (6) 1R: 19.11.2002 Prov 2R: 3.12.2002

COMMUNITY CARE (DELAYED DISCHARGES ETC) (G) Alan Milburn

Commons: (4) 1R: 14.11.2002 Prov 2R: 28.11.2002

CRIME (INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION) [HL] (G) Lord Filkin

Lords: (5) 1R: 19.11.2002 Prov 2R: 2.12.2002

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (G) David Blunkett

Commons: (8) 1R: 21.11.2002 Prov 2R: 4.12.2002

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (REPRESENTATION) (G) Yvette Cooper