HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Monday 7th November 2005
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle.
1. Oath—Dafydd Elystan Lord Elystan-Morgan took and subscribed the oath pursuant to statute.
Judicial Business
2. Stack (Petitioner) v. Dowden (Respondent)—The petition of Barry Stack praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee (lodged 15th August).
3. Helena Housing Limited (Respondents) v. Pinder (FC) (Petitioner) and others—The petition of Karen Pinder praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee. The petitioner’s certificate of public funding was lodged (lodged 4th November).
4. In re Windsor Securities Limited (Petitioners) (Northern Ireland)—The petition of Windsor Securities Limited praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee (lodged 3rd November).
5. Januzi (FC) (Petitioner) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)—It was ordered that the time for lodging the petition of appeal be extended to 9th January.
6. BMBF (No. 24) Limited (Appellants) v. Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inland Revenue (Respondents)—The petition of the appellants was presented praying that the appeal be withdrawn on the terms agreed between the parties (the agents for the respondents consenting thereto); and it was ordered as prayed.
7. Fayed and others (Appellants) v. Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inland Revenue (Respondents) (Scotland)—The petition of the appellants was presented praying that the appeal be withdrawn on the terms agreed between the parties (the agents for the respondents consenting thereto); and it was ordered as prayed.
Papers
8. Statutory Instruments (Standing Order 71)—The following negative instruments, having been laid before the House on 4th November, were ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Meat (Official Controls Charges) (England) Regulations 2005— (2983)
(ii) Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (England) Regulations 2005— (2991)
(iii) Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) Regulations 2005— (3049)
(iv) Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2005— (3050)
laid under the European Communities Act 1972;
2. Personal Injuries (Civilians) (Amendment) (No. 3) Scheme 2005, laid under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939; (3031)
3. War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 2005, laid under the Social Security Act 1989; (3032)
4. Civil Partnership (Treatment of Overseas Relationships) Order 2005, laid under the Civil Partnership Act 2004; (3042)
5. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, laid under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. (3071)
9. Command Papers—The following papers, having been presented to the House by command of Her Majesty on the dates shown, were ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Corruption—United Nations Convention against Corruption; (4th November) (6686)
2. European Communities—Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and Switzerland to combat Fraud and any other Illegal Activity to the Detriment of their Financial Interests; (4th November) (6688)
3. Courts—Report on the Magistrates’ Courts; (7th November) (6681)
4. Finance—Treasury Minutes on the Nineteenth and Twenty-seventh Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2004-05. (7th November) (6682)
10. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. (i) Water Supply (Exceptions from Supply System Prohibitions) Regulations 2005— (3075)
(ii) Water Supply Licence (New Customer Exception) Regulations 2005— (3076)
(iii) Water Supply Licence (Prescribed Water Fittings Requirements) Regulations 2005— (3077)
laid under the Water Industry Act 1991;
2. Films (Exclusivity Agreements) (Revocation) Order 2005, laid under the Fair Trading Act 1973; (3098)
3. Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005, laid under the Civil Partnership Act 2004. (—)
11. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following paper was laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
Report and Accounts for 2004-05 of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Fund, laid under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993.
Select Committee Report
12. Human Rights—The 2nd Report of the Joint Committee, Deaths in Custody: Further Government Response to the Third Report from the Committee of Session 2004-05, together with Appendices, was made and ordered to be printed. (HL Paper 60)
Public Business
13. Road Safety Bill [HL]—It was moved by the Lord Davies of Oldham that the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order:
Clauses 1 to 4
Schedule 1
Clauses 5 to 8
Schedule 2
Clause 9
Schedule 3
Clauses 10 to 23 | Schedule 4
Clauses 24 to 32
Schedule 5
Clauses 33 to 45
Schedule 6
Clauses 46 to 49; |
the motion was agreed to.14. Identity Cards Bill—It was moved by the Lord Davies of Oldham, on behalf of the Baroness Scotland of Asthal, that it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Identity Cards Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order:
Clauses 1 to 3
Schedule 1 | Clauses 4 to 45
Schedule 2; |
the motion was agreed to.15. Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill—It was moved by the Lord Bach that the bill be now read a second time; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
16. Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2005—It was moved by the Lord Evans of Temple Guiting that the draft Order laid before the House on 10th October be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
17. New Opportunities Fund (Specification of Initiatives) (No. 2) Order 2005—It was moved by the Lord Davies of Oldham that the draft Order laid before the House on 11th October be approved; after debate, the motion was agreed to.
1. 18. Special advisers—The Baroness Wilcox asked Her Majesty’s Government whether they propose to make any changes in the number and role of special advisers involved in Government decision making; after debate, the question was answered by the Lord Bassam of Brighton.
The House was adjourned at twenty-nine minutes past nine o’clock
till tomorrow, half-past two o’clock.
PAUL HAYTER
Clerk of the Parliaments | 
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