No. 37

The House met at 10.30 am.

PRAYERS.

1 Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

2 Urgent Question: Scrutiny of Lisbon Treaty Opt-ins (Sarah McCarthy-Fry)

3 Business Question (Leader of the House)

4 Crime and Security Bill (Ways and Means)

    Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Crime and Security Bill, it is expedient to authorise—

(1) the imposition of charges in respect of the cost of adjudications of appeals relating to vehicle immobilisation and release; and

(2) the payment of sums into the Consolidated Fund.—(Mr Stephen Timms.)

5 Corporation Tax (Re-Committed) Bill

    Order read for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the Corporation Tax Bill, as amended in the Joint Committee.

    Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 60(8)), That the Committee of the whole House be discharged from considering the Bill.—(Mr Stephen Timms.)

    Question agreed to.

6 Corporation Tax Bill

    Bill read the third time, and passed.

7 Taxation (International and Other Provisions) (Re-Committed) Bill

    Order read for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill, as amended in the Joint Committee.

    Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 60(8)), That the Committee of the whole House be discharged from considering the Bill.—(Mr Stephen Timms.)

    Question agreed to.

8 Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Bill

    Bill read the third time, and passed.

9 Adjournment

    Subject: East Coast Main Line rail service in Northumberland (Sir Alan Beith).

    Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr George Mudie.)

Adjourned at 3.11 pm until tomorrow.

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Other proceedings

General Committees: Appointments

    The Speaker appoints the Chairman of General Committees and allocates Statutory Instruments to Delegated Legislation Committees.

The Committee of Selection nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees).

10 First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data) Order 2010 and the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Directed Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Order 2010)

    Members: Paul Holmes discharged and Sandra Gidley nominated in substitution.

11 Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill Committee

    Members: Mr John Baron discharged and Mr Brian Binley nominated in substitution.

Reports from Select Committees

12 Culture, Media and Sport Committee

    London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: Legacy: Written evidence, to be published (Mr John Whittingdale).

13 Health Committee

    Commissioning: Evidence, to be printed (HC 268-iii) (Mr Kevin Barron).

14 Public Administration (Select Committee on)

    (1) Committee on Standards in Public Life: Evidence, to be printed (HC 332-i);

    (2) Work of the Charity Commission in 2008-09: Written evidence, to be published;

    (3) Defra's response to the Ombudsman's report on the Single Payment Scheme: Written evidence, to be published

    (Dr Tony Wright).

15 Welsh Affairs Committee

    (1) Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Housing) Order 2009, relating to Domestic Fire Safety: Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee: Fourth Special Report, to be printed (HC 305); and

    (2) Wales and Whitehall: Evidence, to be printed (HC 246-v)

    (Dr Hywel Francis).

John Bercow

Speaker

The Speaker will take the Chair at 9.30 am.

Sitting in Westminster Hall

No. 23

The sitting began at 2.30 pm.

Adjournment

    Subject:

Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest—Seventh Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Session 2008-09, and the Government response, and Demonstrating respect for rights: follow up—Twenty-second Report from the Committee, Session 2008-09, and the Government response.

    Resolved, That the sitting be now adjourned.—(David Wright.)

Adjourned at 4.56 pm until Tuesday 9 February.

Alan Haselhurst

Deputy Speaker

APPENDIX

Papers presented or laid upon the Table:

Papers subject to Negative Resolution:

1 Criminal Law

    Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Prescribed Police Stations) Regulations 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 207), dated 2 February 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Alan Johnson).

2 Local Government

    Bus Lane Contraventions (Approved Local Authorities) (England) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 99), dated 28 January 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Sadiq Khan).

3 Road Traffic

    Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions Designation Order 2010 (S.I., 2010, No. 98), dated 28 January 2010 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Mr Sadiq Khan).

Other Papers:

4 Government Resources and Accounts (Audit of Public Bodies)

    Report and Accounts of Community Development Foundation for 2008-09, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Statutory Instrument); to be printed (HC 8) (Clerk of the House).

5 Railways and Transport Safety

    Statement of Accounts of the British Transport Police Fund for 2008-09, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act); to be printed (HC 93) (Clerk of the House).

6 Severn Bridges

    Financial Statements of Severn River Crossing Plc for 2008 (by Act) (Mr Sadiq Khan).

THE SPEAKER'S CERTIFICATE

    The Speaker has certified that the Corporation Tax Bill is a Money Bill within the meaning of the Parliament Act 1911.