HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Wednesday 4th February 2004
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Southwell.
Judicial Business
1. Regina v. Ashworth Hospital Authority (now Mersey Care National Health Service Trust) (Appellants) ex parte Munjaz (FC) (Respondent) (England)—The appeal of Mersey Care National Health Service Trust was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 17th March next.
2. Quintavalle (on behalf of Comment on Reproductive Ethics) (Appellant) v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (Respondents) (England)—The appeal of Josephine Quintavalle was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 17th March next.
3. Regina v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Appellant) ex parte Hooper and others (FC) (Respondents) (England)—The appeal of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 17th March next.
4. Synthon BV (Appellants) v. Smithkline Beecham plc (Respondents) (England)—The appeal of Synthon BV was presented and it was ordered that in accordance with Standing Order VI the statement and appendix thereto be lodged on or before 17th March next.
5. Evans (Petitioner) v. First Secretary of State and others (Respondents)—The petition of Steven Evans praying for leave to appeal notwithstanding that the time limited by Standing Order II has expired was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
6. Regina v. North Yorkshire County Council and another (Respondents) ex parte Richardson and another (Petitioners)—The petition of Paul Richardson and Wendy Orme praying for leave to appeal notwithstanding that the time limited by Standing Order II has expired was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
7. Regina v. Immigration Officer at Prague Airport and another (Respondents) ex parte European Roma Rights Centre and another (FC) and another and others (FC) (Appellants)—The petition of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees praying for leave to intervene in the said appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
8. Fytche (Appellant) v. Wincanton Logistics plc (Respondents)—The appeal was set down for hearing and referred to an Appellate Committee.
9. AD (by her mother and litigation friend) (Petitioner) v. East Kent Community NHS Trust (Respondents)—Upon application by the petitioner (the agents for the respondents consenting thereto), it was ordered that the petition be withdrawn and that there be no order as to costs.
Papers
10. Command Papers—The following papers were presented to the House by command of Her Majesty and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Marshall Aid—Report for 2002-03 of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission; (6094)
2. Foreign and Commonwealth Office—Government Response to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee’s Report for 2003 on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; (6107)
3. Social Security—Report by the Government Actuary on the drafts of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004 and the Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Funds Payments) Order 2004; (6117)
4. Trade and Industry—Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, together with an Explanatory Memorandum; (6119)
5. Contingent Liability—Minute by the Department of Transport in respect of Statutory Contingent Liabilities in support of Network Rail Limited. (—)
11. Affirmative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House for approval by resolution and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2004, together with an Explanatory Memorandum—
(ii) Draft Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Funds Payments) Order 2004, together with an Explanatory Memorandum—
laid under the Social Security Administration Act 1992;
2. Draft Children (Leaving Care) Social Security Benefits (Scotland) Regulations 2004, laid under the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000, together with an Explanatory Memorandum.
12. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Education (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2004, laid under the Education Act 1996; (181)
2. Education (Parenting Orders) (England) Regulations 2004, laid under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003; (182)
3. Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2004, laid under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; (220)
4. Democratic Republic of Congo (Financing and Financial Assistance and Technical Advice, Assistance and Training) (Penalties and Licences) Regulations 2004, laid under the European Communities Act 1972; (221)
5. Statute made by Robinson College, Cambridge, amending the Statutes of the College, laid under the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923. (—)
13. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Report for 2002-03 of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, laid under the School Inspections Act 1996;
2. Review by the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland of Funding and Management of Three Projects in the Health Sector under the Private Finance Initiative, laid under the Northern Ireland Act 2000.
Select Committee Report
14. Constitution Committee—The 3rd Report from the Select Committee, on the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, was made and ordered to be printed. (HL Paper 27)
Public Business
15. Child Trust Funds Bill—A bill to make provision about child trust funds and for connected purposes was brought from the Commons, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 25)
16. Child Trust Funds Bill—It was ordered that the Explanatory Notes relating to the bill be printed. (HL Bill 25-EN)
17. Hutton Inquiry—It was moved by the Lord Falconer of Thoroton that this House takes note of the Report of the Inquiry by the Lord Hutton into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
The House was adjourned at eleven minutes past ten o’clock
till tomorrow, eleven o’clock.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments
APPENDIX
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND COMMITTEE (IN THE MOSES ROOM)
The Committee met at half-past three o’clock.
Energy Bill [HL]—The bill was further considered in the Grand Committee; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; amendments were agreed to; the Committee was adjourned after amendment 109B.
The Committee was adjourned at twenty-seven minutes past seven o’clock. | 
