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Tuesday 18 May 2021 Order Paper No.4: Part 1 SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER 11.30am Prayers Afterwards Oral Questions: Justice 12.30pm Urgent Questions, including on: Enforcement of the Ministerial Code and the publication of the register of Ministers’ interests (Minister for the Cabinet Office) Afterwards Ministerial Statements, including on: Ten Point Plan – six months on (Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) Until 7.00pm Queen’s Speech (Motion for an Address) (proposed subject for debate: Affordable and safe housing for all) No debate after Delegated Legislation (Motions to refer) 7.00pm No debate Statutory Instruments (Motions for approval) No debate Adjournment (Whitsun and Summer) (Motion) No debate Presentation of Public Petitions Until 7.30pm or for Adjournment Debate: Future of the Anderson School, Chigwell half an hour (Mr Gagan Mohindra) 2 Tuesday 18 May 2021 OP No.4: Part 1 CONTENTS CONTENTS PART 1: BUSINESS TODAY 3 Chamber 12 Written Statements 13 Committees Meeting Today 17 Committee Reports Published Today 18 Announcements 22 Further Information PART 2: FUTURE BUSINESS 24 A. Calendar of Business 33 B. Remaining Orders and Notices Notes: Item marked [R] indicates that a member has declared a relevant interest. Tuesday 18 May 2021 OP No.4: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 3 BUSINESS TODAY: CHAMBER Virtual participation in proceedings will commence after Prayers. 11.30am Prayers Followed by QUESTIONS 1. Justice The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS Urgent Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on enforcement of the Ministerial Code and the publication of the register of Ministers’ interests (Angela Rayner) Ministerial Statements, including Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on Ten Point Plan – six months on The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. BUSINESS OF THE DAY 1. QUEEN’S SPEECH (MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS): ADJOURNED DEBATE [17 MAY] Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3)) Proposed subject for debate: Affordable and safe housing for all That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. 4 Tuesday 18 May 2021 OP No.4: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER Amendment (a) Caroline Lucas Barry Gardiner Ed Davey Tommy Sheppard Liz Saville Roberts Colum Eastwood Ms Diane Abbott Tonia Antoniazzi Paula Barker Ian Byrne Dr Lisa Cameron Dan Carden Wendy Chamberlain Douglas Chapman Jeremy Corbyn Geraint Davies Stephen Farry Andrew Gwynne Claire Hanna Helen Hayes Wera Hobhouse Kim Johnson Ben Lake Clive Lewis Tony Lloyd Rebecca Long Bailey Kenny MacAskill Layla Moran Grahame Morris Sarah Olney Bell Ribeiro-Addy Lloyd Russell-Moyle Alyn Smith Jamie Stone Zarah Sultana Claudia Webbe Mick Whitley Dr Philippa Whitford Nadia Whittome Hywel Williams Munira Wilson Beth Winter Barbara Keeley Debbie Abrahams Dame Diana Johnson Richard Burgon Jonathan Edwards Daisy Cooper Kate Osamor Neale Hanvey At end add ‘but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech did not include sufficient measures to address the climate and ecological emergencies and achieve the goal in the Paris Agreement 2015 to limit the rising global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; note with alarm that global temperatures have already increased by 1.2 degrees Celsius, and that according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction; acknowledge that the UK was the first country in the world to commit to Net Zero by 2050, but that this target does not reflect the UK’s global responsibility and relies heavily on costly and uncertain negative emissions technologies, and that the UK is currently off-track to meet the Fourth and Fifth Carbon Budgets, which are based on an 80 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2050; therefore call on the Government to bring forward a Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill to provide an evidence-based statutory framework which would fairly fulfil the UK’s international climate and nature responsibilities, take a joined-up approach to addressing the climate and ecological emergencies, deliver a just and fair transition to a zero-carbon society, and demonstrate genuine leadership as host of the forthcoming G7 and COP26 summits; and further call on the Government to make time available for that Bill to progress and be debated in Parliament.’ Tuesday 18 May 2021 OP No.4: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 5 Amendment (b) Zarah Sultana Kate Osborne Jeremy Corbyn Daisy Cooper Jamie Stone Caroline Lucas Clive Lewis Apsana Begum John McDonnell Mary Kelly Foy Nadia Whittome Claudia Webbe Ian Lavery Dawn Butler Rebecca Long Bailey Ian Byrne Richard Burgon Kim Johnson Dan Carden Mick Whitley Wera Hobhouse George Howarth Tony Lloyd At end add ‘but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech does not adequately address the ownership of Premier League and English Football League clubs; note the opposition of football fans across the country to the European Super League proposal; believe that football is nothing without the fans; and therefore call on the Government to bring forward a People’s Football Bill, with a 50 per cent plus one share ownership system, modelled on the German Football League, empowering fans with majority control at Premier League and English Football League clubs.’ Amendment (c) Zarah Sultana Apsana Begum Jeremy Corbyn Rebecca Long Bailey John McDonnell Bell Ribeiro-Addy Claudia Webbe Ms Diane Abbott Richard Burgon Ian Byrne Lloyd Russell-Moyle Nadia Whittome Kate Osborne Ian Lavery Mick Whitley Tahir Ali Grahame Morris Clive Lewis Beth Winter Jon Trickett At end add ‘but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech fails to include measures to address unemployment, poverty, and the intensifying climate crisis; note that the climate emergency poses a grave threat to public health and living standards in the UK and across the world; further note that the Government is currently set to miss its Fourth and Fifth Carbon Budgets; believe that, as the host of COP26, the UK must provide leadership in tackling the climate emergency; further believe that there should be no return to the deeply unequal, pro-privatisation economic model that preceded the covid-19 pandemic; therefore call on Government to bring forward a People’s Green New Deal Bill to provide a state-led programme of economic 6 Tuesday 18 May 2021 OP No.4: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER transformation, with a green jobs revolution to create millions of well-paid, unionised jobs, including by bringing energy, water, transport and mail into public ownership, investing in green technologies, expanding and electrifying public transport and expanding international rail, retrofitting homes, creating a National Care Service, providing universal free broadband, repealing anti-trade union laws and increasing workers’ rights, a just transition away from polluting industries with a comprehensive re-training programme and green jobs guarantee, and public procurement in line with global justice in supply chains; and call on the Government to tackle inequality by raising taxes on the richest 5 per cent of earners and large corporations, while introducing a windfall tax on corporations who have made excessive profits during the covid-19 pandemic and a crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion.’ Amendment (d) Neale Hanvey Kenny MacAskill At end add ‘but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech does not adequately address the demonstrated will of the Scottish people so expressed during the recent Scottish Parliamentary election, that is to progress the cause of Scottish Independence.’ Amendment (e) Chris Bryant Christina Rees Mr Barry Sheerman Tonia Antoniazzi Dame Diana Johnson Debbie Abrahams Andrew Gwynne Clive Efford Lilian Greenwood At end add ‘but respectfully regret that measures to reduce the incidence of brain injury, ensure research on prevention and treatment of brain injury including for men and women suffering from concussion in sport, foetal alcohol syndrome, hypoxia and carbon monoxide poisoning, ensure shared protocols on concussion in sport across all sports and improve access to rehabilitation services were not included in the Gracious Speech; recognise that the Government has proposed a new Health and Care Bill to enable patients to receive care closer to home; note that the effects of a brain injury can be wide ranging, varied in severity and may be temporary or long term therefore requiring a co-ordinated response by Government and agencies; further note that children from poorer families are more likely to suffer a brain injury before their fifth birthday; therefore call on the Government to ensure the provision of adequate funding for services, guidance and treatment for every UK citizen with an assessed brain injury; and further call on the Government to ensure training in the education and criminal justice system on supporting those with an acquired brain injury, and to ensure that such provision does not interfere with decisions made by the devolved elected chambers in
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