Today's List(s)

 

TODAY’S LISTS

WEDNESDAY 9 JULY 2025

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

 

Business in the Chamber at 3pm

Prayers by the Bishop of Oxford (5 minutes)

 

Introduction of Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis, CB, CBE, KStJ

Tributes to Sarah Davina Clarke CVO, OBE

 

Oral Questions (40 minutes)

* Lord Murray of Blidworth to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the long-term impact of schemes for early release from prison on public confidence in the justice system.  (Lord Timpson, MoJ)

* Baroness Pidgeon to ask His Majesty’s Government what measures they are taking to prevent the introduction of the European Union’s Entry/Exit System causing transport congestion and disruption to freight.  (Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, DfT)

* Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Fujitsu’s suitability to hold government contracts.  (Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, CO)

* Baroness Lister of Burtersett to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost of abolishing the two-child limit for Universal Credit.  (Baroness Sherlock, DWP)

 

Business expected to be brief

Statutory Instrument approval motion – Baroness Blake of Leeds

Statutory Instrument approval motion – Lord Hanson of Flint

 

Main Business

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill – Report (day 2 of 2) – Baroness Smith of Basildon

• 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.
• No member may speak more than once to an amendment except the mover of the amendment, or a member who has leave of the House.
• Arguments deployed at Committee should not be repeated at length on report.
• 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 Report stage

Grouping of amendments:

13, 13A

14 - already debated

16

17

18

19, 20 - already debated

21

22 - already debated

23

23A

24, 25, 27

26, 28

29, 30, 31 - already debated

32

 

Dinner Break Business - at a convenient point around 7.30pm

A Repeat of an Oral Statement made in the House of Commons on Thursday 3 July (40 minutes)

‘10 Year Health Plan for England’ - Baroness Blake of Leeds (DHSC)

 

Estimated rising time

The House is expected to rise at the conclusion of Report stage of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

 

Business in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 4.15pm

 

The following three motions are expected to be debated together:

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield to move that the Grand Committee takes note of the initial proposed Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy.

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield to move that the Grand Committee takes note of the initial proposed National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure.

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield to move that the Grand Committee takes note of the initial proposed National Policy Statement for Electricity Networks Infrastructure.

There is no official time limit for this debate.  However, as stated in the Companion, backbench contributions should be kept to within 15 minutes

Speakers:

L Wilson of Sedgefield

L Grantchester

L Howell of Guildford

Bp Norwich

5            B Coffey

            B McIntosh of Pickering

 

E Russell

L Offord of Garvel

L Wilson of Sedgefield

 

Estimated Rising Time

The Grand Committee is expected to rise at around 6pm

 

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.
• “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).