House of Commons SESSIONAL RETURNS Session 2003–04 26 November 2003–18 November 2004 RETURNS to Orders of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated November 2004—(The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) HOUSE, COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, STANDING COMMITTEES AND SELECT COMMITTEES HC 1 House of Commons SESSIONAL RETURNS Session 2003–04 26 November 2003–18 November 2004 RETURNS to Orders of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated November 2004—(The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) HOUSE, COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, STANDING COMMITTEES AND SELECT COMMITTEES Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 30 November 2004 HC 1 Published on 25 January 2005 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 INTRODUCTORY NOTE The Sessional Returns were first published in consolidated form for Session 1986– 87. Returns of: i. Closure of debate in the House and in Standing Committees dating back to 1887 and 1907 respectively; ii. 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SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 1 Contents Sessional Return Page 1 Business of the House 5 A Questions 5 B Notices of Motions for an Early Day 5 C Disciplinary Powers of the Chair 5 D Public Petitions 5 2 Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time 6 A Closure of Debate 6 B Power of Chair to Propose Question 8 C (1) Allocation of Time 8 C (2) Allocation of Time (Programme Motions) 9 C (3) Allocation of Time (Business of the House Motions) 21 C (4) Procedure Motions 22 3 Sittings of the House 23 A Days and hours of sitting in the House 23 B Days and hours of sitting in Westminster Hall 32 C Distribution of time on the floor of the House between principal types of business 37 D Distribution of time in Westminster Hall between applicable types of business 39 4 Private Bills and Private Business 40 A Private Bills, Private Business and Special Procedure Orders: General 40 B Dates of the House’s consideration of the several stages of Private Bills 41 C Opposed Bill Committees 42 D Committee on Unopposed Bills 42 E Bills to confirm Orders under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936 43 F Court of Referees 43 G Standing Orders Committee 44 H Special Procedure Orders 45 I Joint Committees 45 5 Public Bills 46 A General Summary 46 B Bills which received the Royal Assent 47 C Bills which did not receive the Royal Assent 48 D House’s consideration of the several stages of Public Bills 53 E Consideration of Bills in Committee of the whole House 64 F Consideration of Bills in Standing Committee 64 6 Delegated Legislation and Deregulation Orders 75 A Instruments laid before the House 75 2 SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 B Instruments considered by the Joint and Select Committees on Statutory Instruments 76 C Consideration in the House and in Standing Committee 77 D Chairmen and Members of Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation 86 E Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Proposals and draft Orders 89 F Remedial Orders under the Human Rights Act 1998 91 7 European Legislation, etc. 93 A Consideration by the European Scrutiny Committee 93 B Consideration on a Motion on the floor of the House and in European Standing Committees 93 8 Grand Committees, Standing Committee on Regional Affairs, and the Standing Committee on the Intergovernmental Conference 97 A Northern Ireland Grand Committee 97 B Welsh Grand Committee 98 C Standing Committee on Regional Affairs 98 D Standing Committee on the Intergovernmental Conference 99 9 Chairmen’s Panel 100 10 Select Committees 102 A MEMBERS SERVING ON SELECT COMMITTEES 102 1 Alphabetical list of Members 102 2 Number of Members Serving on Select Committees 110 B SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC 111 1 Accommodation and Works 111 2 Administration 113 3 Broadcasting 115 4 Catering 116 5 Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) 117 6 Constitutional Affairs 119 7 Culture, Media and Sport 125 7A Maritime Heritage and Historic Ships Sub-Committee 131 8 Defence 132 9 Draft Charities Bill (Joint Committee) 139 10 Draft Disability Discrimination Bill (Joint Committee) 141 11 Draft Gambling Bill (Joint Committee) 143 12 Draft Gambling Bill (Regional Casinos) (Joint Committee) 146 13 Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee) 148 14 Education and Skills 151 15 Environmental Audit 158 15A Environmental Crime Sub-Committee 165 16 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 167 16A Cetacean By-catch Sub-Committee 175 16B Draft Animal Welfare Bill Sub-Committee 177 16C Environmental Directives Sub-Committee 180 16D Food Information Sub-Committee 182 16E The Future for UK Fishing Sub-Committee 184 SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 3 16F GM Planting Regime Sub-Committee 186 16G Government's Rural Delivery Strategy Sub-Committee 188 16H Milk Pricing Sub-Committee 190 16I Reform of the Sugar Regime Sub-Committee 192 16J Sites of Special Scientific Interest Sub-Committee 194 16K Toxins in Shellfish Sub-Committee 196 16L Water Pricing Sub-Committee 198 17 European Scrutiny 200 18 Finance and Services 207 19 Foreign Affairs 209 20 Health 216 21 Home Affairs 221 22 Human Rights (Joint Committee) 227 23 Information 233 24 International Development 235 25 Liaison 242 25A Liaison Sub-Committee 244 26 Modernisation of the House of Commons 245 27 Northern Ireland Affairs 248 27A Northern Ireland Affairs Sub-Committee 254 28 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 258 28A Urban Affairs Sub-Committee 264 29 Procedure 267 30 Public Accounts 270 31 Public Administration 283 32 Regulatory Reform 288 33 Science and Technology 292 34 Scottish Affairs 301 35 Selection 305 36 Standards and Privileges 306 37 Statutory Instruments 308 38 Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) 310 39 Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) 313 40 Trade and Industry 315 41 Transport 321 42 Treasury 329 42A Treasury Sub-Committee 335 43 Welsh Affairs 338 44 Work and Pensions 344 44A IT Sub-Committee 349 C GENERAL STATISTICS ON SELECT COMMITTEES 351 1 Printing Costs and Page Count 351 1A Page Count and Costs: Financial Year 2003–04 351 1B Page Count and Costs: Session 2003–04 353 2 Select Committee Expenses 354 2A Financial Year 2003–04 354 2B Session 2003–04 358 3 Select Committee Staff 362 4 SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 5 1 Business of the House Information and statistics relating to Questions; Notices of Motions for an Early Day; the exercise of disciplinary powers by the Chair and by order of the House; and Public Petitions. A Questions Number of Questions which appeared on the Order Paper: for written answer on a named day 8,712 for ordinary written answer 46,163 Total for written answer 54,875 for oral answer 3,687 number reached for answer in the House 2,060 Total number of Questions 59,855 Number of Urgent Questions 12 Number of days upon which replies to Questions for oral answer were given in the House 141 Number of days upon which replies to Questions for oral answer were given in 2 Westminster Hall Number of Questions reached for oral answer in Westminster Hall 19 B Notices of Motions for an Early Day Total number of Notices of Motions given for an Early Day 1,941 including the number which were Prayers for the annulment of Statutory Instruments 18 C Disciplinary Powers of the Chair Members ordered to withdraw Number of Members ordered to withdraw from the House under Standing Order No. 43 0 (Disorderly conduct) in the House 0 in Committee of the whole House 0 Total 0 Members suspended from the service of the House Number of Members 0 suspended from the service of the House by order made under Standing Order No. 44 0 (Order in debate) by orders made otherwise 0 Total 0 D Public Petitions Total number of Petitions 128 Number of Petitions presented at the times specified by Standing Order No. 154 (Time and 112 manner of presenting petitions) Number of Petitions on which observations were tabled pursuant to Standing Order No. 82 156 (Printing of petitions and of ministerial replies) 6 SESSIONAL RETURNS 2003–04 2 Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time Information and statistics relating to applications of Standing Order No.