HOUSE OF LORDS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Tuesday 2nd May 2006
The House met at half-past two o’clock.
PRAYERS were read by the Lord Bishop of St Albans.
Judicial Business
1. Cook (Petitioner) v. J D Wetherspoon plc (Respondents)—The petition of Emmanuel Cook praying for leave to appeal was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
2. Society of Lloyd’s (Respondents) v. Tropp (Petitioner)—The petition of Richard Abraham Tropp praying for leave to appeal notwithstanding that the time limited by Standing Order II has expired was presented and referred to an Appeal Committee.
3. Hamilton and others (Appellants) v. Allied Domecq plc (Respondents) (Scotland)—The appeal was set down for hearing and referred to an Appellate Committee.
4. R v. Rogers (Appellant) (On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))—The appeal was set down for hearing and referred to an Appellate Committee.
Papers
5. 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. Air Services—Agreement Between the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic concerning Air Services, together with an Explanatory Memorandum; (28th April) (6782)
2. Marine Environment—Protocol of Amendments to the Convention on the International Hydrographic Organization, together with an Explanatory Memorandum; (28th April) (6783)
3. Finance—Central Government Supply Estimates 2006-07: Supplementary Budgetary Information; (2nd May) (6771)
4. Human Rights—Government Response to the First Report of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Human Rights. (2nd May) (6774)
6. Statutory Instruments (Standing Order 71)—The following negative instruments, having been laid before the House on 28th April, were ordered to lie on the Table:
(i) Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2006— (1198)
(ii) Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006— (1200)
laid under the European Communities Act 1972.
7. Affirmative Instrument—The following instrument was laid before the House for approval by resolution and ordered to lie on the Table:
Draft Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) Regulations 2006, laid under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, together with an Explanatory Memorandum.
8. Negative Instruments—The following instruments were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Nursing and Midwifery Council (Practice Committees) (Constitution) Rules Order of Council 2006, laid under the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001; (1199)
2. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (No. 2) Regulations 2006, laid under the European Communities Act 1972. (1228)
9. Papers not subject to parliamentary proceedings—The following papers were laid before the House and ordered to lie on the Table:
1. Report and Accounts for 2004-05 of the Health Professions Council, laid under the Health Professions Order 2001;
2. Treasury Minute dated 2nd May 2006, directing the application of certain amounts as Appropriations in Aid of the Estimates for 2006-07, laid under the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000.
Select Committee Report
10. Merits of Statutory Instruments—The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed:
33rd Report, on the following negative instruments:
School Staffing (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006;
Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006. (HL Paper 170)
Public Business
11. Piped Music and Showing of Television Programmes Bill [HL]—A bill to provide for the Secretary of State to draw up a plan to prohibit piped music and the showing of television programmes in public areas of hospitals and on public transport; and to require the wearing of headphones by persons listening to music in the public areas of hospitals and on public transport was presented by the Lord Beaumont of Whitley, read a first time and ordered to be printed. (HL Bill 100)
12. House Committee—It was moved by the Chairman of Committees that the First Report from the Select Committee be agreed to; then it was moved by the Lord Barnett, as an amendment thereto, at end to insert “except that the annual salary of the Lord Speaker should be the same as the annual salary of the Chairman of Committees (£79,382 at 1st April 2005)”; after debate, the amendment was disagreed to (see division list); then the original motion was agreed to.
13. Northern Ireland Bill—It was moved by the Lord Rooker that the bill be now read a second time; after debate, the motion was agreed to and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
14. Housing (Empty Dwelling Management Orders) (Prescribed Exceptions and Requirements) (England) Order 2006—It was moved by the Baroness Hanham that this House calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to revoke the Order laid before the House on 22nd February (S.I. 2006/367); after debate, the motion was (by leave of the House) withdrawn.
The House was adjourned at eighteen minutes before seven o’clock till tomorrow, a quarter before ten o’clock for judicial business,three o’clock for public business.
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.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]—The bill was considered in the Grand Committee; amendments were moved and (by leave of the Committee) withdrawn; amendments were agreed to; the Committee was adjourned after clause 5 stood part.
The Committee was adjourned at twenty-three minutes before eight o’clock. | 
