Today's List(s)

 

TODAY’S LISTS

MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 2024

[Notes about this document are set out at the end]

 

Business in the Chamber at 2.30pm

Prayers by the Bishop of Leicester (5 minutes)

 

Oral Questions (40 minutes)

* Lord Sandhurst to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent criminals who have been released under the prisoner early release scheme from reoffending.  (Lord Timpson, MoJ)

* Baroness Barran to ask His Majesty’s Government whether they plan to publish the main findings of Sir David Bell’s review of early years provision, commissioned by the Labour Party in October 2023.  (Baroness Smith of Malvern, DfE)

* Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to build capacity in councils and housing associations within the next three months to increase the building of new social homes.  (Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, MHCLG)

* Lord Hacking to ask His Majesty’s Government what estimates they have made of the pupil migration arising out of the proposed VAT on independent school fees, and what is the exact basis of such estimates.  (Lord Livermore, HMT)

 

Questions on an Oral Statement made in the House of Commons on Thursday 17 October (40 minutes)

‘Government’s Childcare Expansion’ – Baroness Smith of Malvern (Department for Education)

 

Main Business

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill – Committee (day 1 of 2) – Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill

• All members opening or winding are expected to keep remarks within 15 minutes, with the exception of ministers winding up who are expected to keep within 20 minutes.
• Other speakers within each group are expected to keep within 10 minutes.
• Members' speeches should not summarise or repeat at length points made by others, and if speaking more than once a Member should not repeat points they have already made.
• Members pressing or withdrawing an amendment should normally be brief.

Target for the day:  to complete the group beginning with amendment 11

Grouping of amendments:

A1, 2, 21, 22, 26, 45, 48A

1, 30, 48

3, 4, 5, 10, 14, 15, 28, 29, 35

6, 40, 41

7, 9

8

11, 18, 49

12, 13, 16, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 46, 50

17, 38, 39

19, 20, 23, 25

24, 27

42, 44

47

 

Dinner break business – at a convenient time after 7.30pm

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2024 – Debate and Approval Motion – Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

• Regret Motion – Baroness Brinton

 

Estimated rising time

The House is expected to rise at around 10pm.

 

 

Business in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3.45pm

 

Lord Davies of Brixton to move that the Grand Committee takes note of the draft Pensions Regulator’s Defined Benefit Funding Code of Practice 2024, laid before the House on 29 July.   (2nd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee)

 

Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2024 – Consideration in Grand Committee – Baroness Chapman of Darlington

 

Iran (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 – Consideration in Grand Committee – Baroness Chapman of Darlington

 

Estimated Rising Time

The Grand Committee is expected to rise at around 5pm.

 

Notes:

• This document sets out the matters for the day’s business which the Government Whips’ Office coordinates: Speakers’ Lists (Companion 4.26), ministerial statements (Companion 6.02) and the grouping of amendments (Companion 8.70). It is not the formal order paper, which is produced by the Clerk of the Parliaments and is available from the Printed Paper Office and https://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/
• Time estimates are best endeavours: there is no certainty other than for formally time-limited business. It is the duty of individual members to observe the rules on attendance at debate (Companion 4.32) and, in particular, to ensure that they are present for the start of business in which they wish to take part.
• The number of sessions shown for a stage of a bill represents the Government’s assessment of reasonable time given the balance of bills and remaining days to the likely end of the session. Progress remains in the hands of the House. Report stage is usually half the length of Committee.
• The grouping of amendments is informal. Although every effort is made to secure agreement to groupings, any peer may speak to an amendment in its place on the Marshalled List. “g” before an amendment indicates a Government amendment.
• Speaking in debates (Companion 4.34): A member of the House who is taking part in a debate (including general debates and debates on amendments or motions) should attend the start, end and greater part of that debate. In addition, it is considered discourteous for members not to be present for at least the opening speeches, the speeches before and after their own, and for the winding-up speeches.  Ministers may decide not to answer, orally or in writing, points made by a speaker who does not stay to hear the Minister's closing speech. Members who believe that they are unlikely to be able to stay until the end of a debate should not seek to participate in it (and if the debate has a speakers' list, should remove their names from the list).