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Lord Rooker: My Lords, time is up.
Borough Freedom (Family Succession) Bill [HL]
Lord Graham of Edmonton: My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to make new provision relating to admission to borough freedom. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.
Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(Lord Graham of Edmonton.)
On Question, Bill read a first time, and ordered to be printed.
Constitution Committee
Economic Affairs
Merits of Statutory Instruments
Science and Technology
The Chairman of Committees (Lord Brabazon of Tara): My Lords, with the leave of the House, I beg to move en bloc the four Motions standing in my name on the Order Paper.
Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to examine the constitutional implications of all public Bills coming before the House; and to keep under review the operation of the constitution;
That, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the committee:
V. Bledisloe, L. Carter, L. Elton, B. Hayman, L. Holme of Cheltenham (Chairman), L. Monro of Langholm, B. O'Cathain, L. Peston, L. Rowlands, E. Sandwich, L. Smith of Clifton, L. Windlesham;
That the committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;
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That the committee have power to adjourn from place to place;
That the committee have leave to report from time to time;
That the minutes of evidence taken before the Constitution Committee in the last Parliament be referred to the committee; and
That the minutes of evidence taken before the committee from time to time shall, if the committee think fit, be printed.
That a Select Committee be appointed to consider economic affairs;
That, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the committee:
L. Goodhart, L. Kingsdown, L. Lamont of Lerwick, L. Lawson of Blaby, L. Layard, L. Macdonald of Tradeston, L. Paul, L. Powell of Bayswater, L. Sheldon, L. Sheppard of Didgemere, L. Skidelsky, L. Vallance of Tummel, L. Wakeham (Chairman);
That the committee have power to appoint a sub-committee and to refer to such sub-committee any of the matters within the terms of reference of the committee;
That the committee have power to appoint the chairman of such sub-committee;
That the committee have power to co-opt any Lord for the purpose of serving on such sub-committee;
That the committee have power to adjourn from place to place;
That the committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;
That the committee have leave to report from time to time;
That the minutes of evidence taken before the Economic Affairs Committee or any sub-committee in the last Parliament be referred to the committee; and
That the minutes of evidence taken before the committee from time to time shall, if the committee think fit, be printed.
Merits of Statutory Instruments
Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider every instrument which is laid before each House of Parliament and upon which proceedings may be or might have been taken in either House of Parliament, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament, being:
(i) a statutory instrument, or a draft of a statutory instrument;
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(ii) a scheme, or an amendment of a scheme, or a draft thereof, requiring approval by statutory instrument; or
(iii) any other instrument (whether or not in draft), where the proceedings in pursuance of an Act of Parliament are proceedings by way of an affirmative or negative resolution;
but excluding any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 and any remedial order or draft remedial order under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998 and any draft order proposed to be made under Section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, or any subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under that Act;
with a view to determining whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to it on any of the following grounds:
(a) that it is politically or legally important or gives rise to issues of public policy likely to be of interest to the House;
(b) that it is inappropriate in view of the changed circumstances since the passage of the parent Act;
(c) that it inappropriately implements EU legislation;
(d) that it imperfectly achieves its policy objectives;
That, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the committee:
L. Addington, L. Armstrong of Ilminster, L. Boston of Faversham, V. Colville of Culross, V. Eccles, L. Filkin (Chairman), L. Jopling, L. Methuen, B. Morgan of Drefelin, E. Northesk, L. Tunnicliffe;
That the committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;
That the committee have power to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom;
That the committee have leave to report from time to time;
That the minutes of evidence taken before the Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee in the last Parliament be referred to the committee; and
That the minutes of evidence taken before the committee from time to time shall, if the committee think fit, be printed.
Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider science and technology and that, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the committee:
L. Broers (Chairman), B. Finlay of Llandaff, L. Howie of Troon,
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L. Mitchell, L. Patel, L. Paul, B. Perry of Southwark, B. Platt of Writtle, E. Selborne, B. Sharp of Guildford, L. Sutherland of Houndwood, L. Taverne, L. Winston, L. Young of Graffham;
That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees and that the committee have power to appoint the chairmen of sub-committees;
That the committee have power to co-opt any Lord for the purposes of serving on the committee or any sub-committee;
That the committee have leave to report from time to time;
That the committee and any sub-committee have power to adjourn from place to place;
That the committee and any sub-committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;
That the minutes of evidence taken before the Science and Technology Committee or any sub-committee in the last Parliament be referred to the committee; and
That the minutes of evidence taken before the committee from time to time shall, if the committee think fit, be printed.—(The Chairman of Committees.)
On Question, Motions agreed to.
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