Today's List(s)

 

TODAY’S LISTS

WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2024

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

 

Business in the Chamber at 3pm

Prayers by the Bishop of Chichester (5 minutes)

 

Oral Questions (40 minutes)

* Baroness Smith of Llanfaes to ask His Majesty’s Government what recent meetings they have had with Welsh Government Ministers regarding coal tip safety.  (Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, WO)

* Lord Goodman of Wycombe to ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made with their review of the counter-extremism strategy announced in August.  (Lord Hanson of Flint, HO)

* Viscount Stansgate to ask His Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to protect the work of astronomy from the adverse effects of large numbers of satellites.  (Lord Vallance of Balham, DSIT)

* Lord Londesborough to ask His Majesty’s Government, following the speech of the Governor of the Bank of England at Mansion House, what measures they are taking to increase the export of goods to the European Union.  (Lord Livermore, DBT)

 

Business expected to be brief

Statutory Instrument approval motion – Baroness Chapman of Darlington

Two Statutory Instrument approval motions en bloc – Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Statutory Instrument approval motion – Baroness Blake of Leeds

Statutory Instrument approval motion – Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill

 

Questions on an Urgent Question taking place in the House of Commons on Tuesday 19 November (10 minutes)

‘To ask His Majesty’s Government if they will make a statement on the Government’s response to the jailing of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong’ - Baroness Chapman of Darlington (FCDO)

 

Main Business

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill – Lords Consideration of Commons Reasons – 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Grouping of Motions:

A, A1, B

 

Water (Special Measures) Bill – Report – Baroness Hayman of Ullock

• 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:

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 57, 58

3, 43

g12, g13, g14, g15, 15A, g16, g17, g18, g19, g20, g21, g22, g23, g24, g25, g27, g28, g29, g30, g31, g32, g33, g34, g35, g36, g37, g38, g60, g63

26, g42, 44, g48, 49, 55, g61, g62, g64, g65

39, 40, 41

45, 46, 47

50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59

 

Last business

Questions on an Oral Statement made in the House of Commons on Tuesday 12 November (40 minutes)

‘Co-production of National Youth Strategy’ - Baroness Twycross (DCMS)

 

Estimated rising time

The House is expected to rise at around 10pm.

Business in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 4.15pm

 

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] – Committee (day 1 of 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 group starting amendment 5

Grouping of amendments:

1, 8, 33, 40, 41, 80, 113, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133

2, 27

3, 7, 10, 95

4, 6, 9, 15, 17, 36, 37 ,39, 42, 94, 127

5, 28, 30, 50, 115, 125

11, 104A, 124A

12, 13, 18, 19

14, 54, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 99, 100, 101, 114, 116

16, 51

20, 24, 25, 26

21, 22, 32, 45, 48, 71, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124

23, 105

29, 31, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 97, 98, 109

34, 35

38, 43

44, 49, 55, 56

46

47, 93, 96, 102,

52, 53, 79

57, 58, 59

68, 69, 90, 91, 92, 107

72, 73

81

82, 103, 104, 104B

106, 108

110, 111, 112

134, 135

 

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.
• 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).