Resolution of 28 January 2019, (Pursuant to Resolution Today) (The Speaker)
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No. 241 Monday 28 January 2019 Votes and Proceedings The House met at 2.30 pm. Prayers 1 Questions to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government 2 Urgent Questions: (1) Venezuela (Sir Alan Duncan) (2) Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy (Nick Gibb) 3 Drone (Regulation) (No. 2) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57) Mr Peter Bone, supported by Esther McVey, Gordon Henderson, Jonathan Lord, Philip Davies, Henry Smith and Steve Double, presented a Bill to require drones to be marked and registered and to broadcast certain information electronically; to place restrictions on drone flight near aerodromes; and for connected purposes. Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 8 February, and to be printed (Bill 325). 4 Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Second Reading Motion made and Question proposed, That the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill be read a second time.—(Secretary Sajid Javid.) The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)). Question put. The House divided. Division No. 306 Ayes: 297 (Tellers: Jo Churchill, Wendy Morton) Noes: 234 (Tellers: Sir Alan Campbell, Jessica Morden) Question accordingly agreed to and Bill read a second time. 2 Votes and Proceedings: 28 January 2019 No. 241 5 Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Programme Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Committal (1) The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee. Proceedings in Public Bill Committee (2) Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 7 March. (3) The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets. Proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading (4) Proceedings on Consideration and any proceedings in legislative grand committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which proceedings on Consideration are commenced. (5) Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day. (6) Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading. Other proceedings (7) Any other proceedings on the Bill may be programmed.—(Mike Freer.) Question agreed to. 6 Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Ways and Means Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)), That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, it is expedient to authorise any fees or charges arising by virtue of the Act.—(Mike Freer.) Question agreed to. 7 Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Money Queen's Recommendation signified. Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)), That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of: (1) any expenditure incurred by a Minister of the Crown, a government department, a person holding office under Her Majesty or any other public authority by virtue of the Act; and (2) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable by virtue of any other Act out of money so provided.—(Mike Freer.) Question agreed to. No. 241 Votes and Proceedings: 28 January 2019 3 8 Business of the House Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 15), That, at this day’s sitting, the Motion in the name of Andrea Leadsom relating to the Business of the House (Today) may be entered upon, though opposed, at any hour; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply.—(Mike Freer.) Question agreed to. 9 Business of the House (Today) Ordered, That, at today’s sitting, the Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of the Motions in the name of Andrea Leadsom relating to Proxy Voting not later than one hour after the start of proceedings on this Motion; such questions shall include the questions on any amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; proceedings may continue, though opposed, after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply.—(Andrea Leadsom.) 10 Proxy Voting (Implementation) Motion made and Question proposed, That this House:— (1) reaffirms its resolution of 1 February 2018 on baby leave for Members of Parliament; (2) endorses the Fifth Report of the Procedure Committee, HC 825, on Proxy voting and parental absence; (3) accordingly directs the Speaker to prepare a pilot scheme governing the operation of proxy voting for Members absent from the House by reason of childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, pursuant to the recommendations in the Committee’s report, this resolution and the temporary Standing Order (Voting by proxy for parental absence); (4) directs that a scheme prepared in accordance with this resolution and the temporary Standing Order (Voting by proxy for parental absence) shall be signed by the Speaker and the leaders of the three largest parties in the House before it is published, and that it shall enter into effect for a period of 12 months when the Speaker takes the chair on the sitting day after the day of publication; (5) directs that any amendment of a scheme in effect by virtue of paragraph (4) above shall take effect when the Speaker takes the Chair on the sitting day after a proposal signed by the Speaker and the leaders of the three largest parties in the House is published; and (6) directs the Procedure Committee to review proxy voting arrangements within 12 months of the commencement of a scheme established by virtue of this order.—(Andrea Leadsom.) The Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)). Question put and agreed to. 4 Votes and Proceedings: 28 January 2019 No. 241 11 Proxy Voting (Temporary Standing Order) Motion made and Question proposed, That the following change to Standing Orders be made: Voting by proxy for parental absence (Temporary Standing Order) (1) A Member may, by reason of absence from the precincts of the House for childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, arrange for their vote to be cast in accordance with this order by another Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote). (2) A proxy vote may be cast: (a) in a division in the House, in Committee of the whole House, or in any legislative grand committee, in relation to the business specified in paragraph (3) below; (b) on business specified in paragraph (3) below recorded in a division under Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions), and (c) in a ballot cast in an election under Standing Order No. 1B (Election of Speaker by secret ballot), Standing Order No. 2A (Election of the Deputy Speakers) and Standing Order No. 122B (Election of select committee chairs). (3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, a proxy vote may be cast on all public and private business of the House. (4) No proxy vote shall be cast in a division on any motion in the form specified in section 2(2) of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. (5) No proxy vote shall be reckoned in the numbers participating in a division for the purposes of (a) Standing Order No. 41(1) (Quorum), and (b) Standing Order No. 37 (Majority for closure or for proposal of question). (6) A proxy vote may be cast only if the Speaker has certified that the Member for whom the vote is to be cast is eligible under the terms of this order and the Resolution of the House of Monday 28 January and if that certificate, including the name of the Member nominated as a proxy, has been published in the Votes and Proceedings. (7) A vote cast by a proxy shall be clearly indicated as such in the division lists published under the authority of the House. (8) This Standing Order shall lapse upon the expiry of the proxy voting scheme established under the terms of this order and the Resolution of the House of Monday 28 January.—(Andrea Leadsom.) Amendment (d) proposed, after paragraph (7), insert: '(7A) The Speaker may also make provision for the exercise of a proxy vote for Members who have suffered a miscarriage'.—(Philip Davies.) Amendment made. Main Question, as amended, agreed to. Ordered, That the following change to Standing Orders be made: Voting by proxy for parental absence (Temporary Standing Order) (1) A Member may, by reason of absence from the precincts of the House for childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, arrange for their vote to be cast in accordance with this order by another Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote). (2) A proxy vote may be cast: (a) in a division in the House, in Committee of the whole House, or in any legislative grand committee, in relation to the business specified in paragraph (3) below; (b) on business specified in paragraph (3) below recorded in a division under No. 241 Votes and Proceedings: 28 January 2019 5 Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions), and (c) in a ballot cast in an election under Standing Order No.