HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Wednesday 26th April 2006
The House met at three o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of Sheffield.
Papers
1. Command Paper—The following paper, having been presented to the House by command of Her Majesty, was ordered to lie on the Table:
Finance—Treasury Minutes on the Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fifth to Twenty-Eighth Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts. (6775)
2. Affirmative Instrument—The following instrument was laid before the House for approval by resolution and ordered to lie on the Table:
Draft National Health Service (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2006, laid under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002, together with an Explanatory Memorandum.
3. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Protection of Wrecks (Designation) (England) (No.1) Order 2006, laid the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973; (1178)
2. Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, laid under the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. (—)
4. Paper not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following paper was laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
Tenth Report of the Independent Monitoring Commission, laid under the Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc) Act 2003.
Select Committee Reports
5. Statutory Instruments—The 24th Report from the Joint Committee was made on certain statutory instruments, including the following affirmative instruments:
Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Disqualification from Office: General) Order 2006;
Draft Planning (Application to the Houses of Parliament) Order 2006;
it was ordered that the Report be printed. (HL Paper 167)
6. Constitution Committee—The 10th Report from the Select Committee, Government Response to a Report on the Government of Wales Bill, was made and ordered to be printed. (HL Paper 168)
7. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform—The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
18th Report, on the following bills:
Company Law Reform Bill [HL]—Government amendment for Committee stage;
Health Bill—Government response;
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]—Government response. (HL Paper 169)
Public Business
8. Planning Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2006—
9. Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006—
10. Terrorism Act 2000 (Revised Code of Practice for the Identification of Persons by Police Officers) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006—
It was moved by the Lord Rooker that the draft Orders laid before the House on 8th, 13th and 15th March be approved en bloc; the motion was agreed to.
11. Animal Welfare Bill—It was moved by the Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton, on behalf of the Lord Bach, that it be an instruction to the Grand Committee to which the Animal Welfare Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order:
Clauses 1 to 13
Schedule 1
Clauses 14 to 50
Schedule 2
Clauses 51 to 61 | Schedule 3
Clause 62
Schedule 4
Clauses 63 to 66; |
the motion was agreed to.12. Violent Crime Reduction Bill—The House resolved itself into a Committee upon the bill; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; amendments were agreed to; an amendment was disagreed to (see division list 1); the House was resumed.
13. Local Government (Boundaries) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006—It was moved by the Lord Rooker that the draft Order laid before the House on 22nd March be approved; then it was moved by the Lord Smith of Clifton, as an amendment thereto, at end to insert “but this House regrets that the arrangements proposed for seven councils will not provide sufficient local identity, engagement, accountability for decisions or accessibility of the public to political representatives, as expressed by the majority of parties in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Local Government Association”; after debate, the amendment was disagreed to (see division list 2); then the original motion was agreed to.
14. Violent Crime Reduction Bill—The House again resolved itself into a Committee upon the bill; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; an amendment was disagreed to (see division list 3); the House was resumed after amendment 79.
The House was adjourned at 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 a quarter before four o’clock.
Childcare Bill—The bill was further considered in the Grand Committee; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; the Committee was adjourned after clause 11 stood part.
The Committee was adjourned at half-past seven o’clock. | 
