Today's List(s)

 

TODAY’S LISTS

WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2024

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

 

Business in the Chamber at 11am

Prayers by the Bishop of Leeds (5 minutes)

 

Main Business

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill – Second Reading – Baroness Smith of Basildon

For the list of speakers, see below

 

It is expected that the House will adjourn at a convenient point around 1pm.

 

Oral Questions at 3pm (40 minutes)

* Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask His Majesty’s Government how many individuals have been prescribed anti-depressants by the NHS in England in the past 10 years, at what cost, and what assessment they have made of the risks and ramifications.  (Baroness Merron, DHSC)

* Lord Addington to ask His Majesty’s Government how they will ensure state-funded schools are better able to identify those with special educational needs and better able to meet those needs.  (Baroness Smith of Malvern, DfE)

* Lord Rooker to ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 11 September (HL Deb col 1562), whether it remains their intention to lay regulations before Parliament to amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 in 2024.  (Baroness Merron, DHSC)

* Lord Sikka to ask His Majesty’s Government what logistical and supply chain barriers they have identified to the possibility of building 1.5 million new homes by 2029.  (Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, MHCLG)

 

Main Business

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill – Second Reading – Baroness Smith of Basildon

Advisory backbench speaking time:  5 minutes

Speakers:

B Smith of Basildon

L True

L Newby

E Kinnoull

5          L Falconer of Thoroton

L Strathclyde

L Wallace of Tankerness

L Burns

B Goldie

10        L Grocott

L Wakeham

L Birt

L Lilley

B Smith of Llanfaes

15        L Mancroft

D Wellington

L Forsyth of Drumlean

L Brady of Altrincham  (Maiden)

L Dobbs

20        B Quin  (Valedictory) 

L Foulkes of Cumnock

L Blencathra

L Parkinson of Whitley Bay

L Beith

25        L Howard of Rising

B Hooper

L Morse

L Moylan

B Whitaker

30        L Hamilton of Epsom

B Laing of Elderslie

L Strathcarron

L Cromwell

L Norton of Louth

35        V Goschen

B Lister of Burtersett 

L Lucas

B Meyer

L Rennard

40        L Roberts of Belgravia

B Fox of Buckley

L Reay

L Hacking

V Astor

45        L Keen of Elie

L Moore of Etchingham

L Ashcombe

L Northbrook

L Sikka

50        L Bellamy

E Caithness

V Bridgeman

B Watkins of Tavistock

E Liverpool

55        L Vaizey of Didcot

B Burt of Solihull

L Horam

L Leigh of Hurley

B Mobarik

60        L Kerr of Kinlochard

L Magan of Castletown

E Shrewsbury

L Verdirame

L Rooker

65        L Murray of Blidworth

V Trenchard

V Eccles

L de Clifford

L Swire

70        B Miller of Chilthorne Domer

L Glenarthur

E Devon

L Borwick

E Dundee

75        L Hampton

L Colgrain

B Symons of Vernham Dean

L Bethell

L Hogan-Howe

80        L Harlech

L Inglewood

L Hannan of Kingsclere

V Thurso

L Wrottesley

85        L Wolfson of Tredegar

B O'Loan

 

L Wallace of Saltaire

B Finn

B Smith of Basildon

 

• commitment motion – Baroness Smith of Basildon

 

Estimated rising time

The House is expected to sit late.

Business in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 4.15pm

 

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] – Committee (day 4) – Lord Leong

• 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 committee stage

Grouping of amendments:

52, 53, 79

54, 55, 56 - already debated

57, 58, 59

60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 - already debated

68, 69, 90, 91, 92, 107

70, 71 - already debated

72, 73

74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80 - already debated

81

82, 103, 104, 104B

83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 104A, 105
     - already debated

106, 108

109 - already debated

110, 111, 112

113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 124A, 125, 126, 127, 128,
     129, 130, 131, 132, 133 - already debated

134

 

Estimated Rising Time

The Grand Committee is expected to rise at around 9.15pm.

 

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.
• 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).