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Wednesday 21 April 2021 Order Paper No.203: Part 1 SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER 11.30am Prayers Afterwards Oral Questions: Northern Ireland 12 noon Oral Questions: Prime Minister Up to 20 minutes Ten Minute Rule Motion: Fur Trade (Prohibition) (Taiwo Owatemi) Up to 90 minutes Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (Motion for approval) No debate Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Programme (No. 2) (Motion) Up to three hours* Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments *(if the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Programme (No. 2) motion is agreed to) Until any hour** Business of the House (Today) (Motion) **(if the 7.00pm Business of the House Motion is agreed to) Up to 90 minutes Confidentiality in the House’s Standards System (Motion) after the commencement ***(if the Business of the House (Today) Motion is agreed to) of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) Motion*** Up to 90 minutes Sanctions in respect of the Conduct of Members (Motion) after the commencement ***(if the Business of the House (Today) Motion is agreed to) of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) Motion*** 2 Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 Up to 90 minutes Sanctions in respect of the Conduct of Members (ICGS Cases) after the (Motion) commencement of proceedings on ***(if the Business of the House (Today) Motion is agreed to) the Business of the House (Today) Motion*** Up to 90 minutes Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Motion) Until 7.30pm or for Adjournment Debate: Carbon monoxide safety, testing and half an hour awareness (Stephanie Peacock) WESTMINSTER HALL 9.25am UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership 11.00am Health inequalities and the covid-19 outbreak in West Yorkshire (The sitting will be suspended from 11.30am to 2.30pm) 2.30pm Support for children with SEND 4.05pm Promotion of electric vehicle usage 4.50pm National Stroke Programme and aftercare and rehabilitation services for stroke patients Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 CONTENTS 3 CONTENTS PART 1: BUSINESS TODAY 4 Chamber 11 Westminster Hall 12 Written Statements 13 Committees Meeting Today 17 Committee Reports Published Today 18 Announcements 21 Further Information PART 2: FUTURE BUSINESS 24 A. Calendar of Business 30 B. Remaining Orders and Notices Notes: Item marked [R] indicates that a member has declared a relevant interest. 4 Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 BUSINESS Today: CHAMBER BUSINESS TODAY: CHAMBER Virtual participation in proceedings will commence after Prayers. 11.30am Prayers Followed by QUESTIONS 1. Northern Ireland 2. Prime Minister The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS 12.30pm Ministerial Statements (if any) BUSINESS OF THE DAY 1. FUR TRADE (PROHIBITION): TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23) Taiwo Owatemi That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the import, export, purchase and sale of fur and fur products; and for connected purposes. Notes: The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to 10 minutes. 2. PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM Up to 90 minutes (Standing Order No. 16(1)) Secretary Priti Patel That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2021, which was laid before this House on 19 April, be approved. Notes: The Instrument has not yet been considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 BUSINESS Today: CHAMBER 5 3. OVERSEAS OPERATIONS (SERVICE PERSONNEL AND VETERANS) BILL: PROGRAMME (NO. 2) No debate (Standing Order No. 83A(7)) Secretary Ben Wallace That the following provisions shall apply to the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Order of 23 September 2020 (Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill (Programme)): Consideration of Lords Amendments (1) Proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion three hours after their commencement. Subsequent stages (2) Any further Message from the Lords may be considered forthwith without any Question being put. (3) The proceedings on any further Message from the Lords shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour after their commencement. 4. OVERSEAS OPERATIONS (SERVICE PERSONNEL AND VETERANS) BILL: CONSIDERATION OF LORDS AMENDMENTS Up to three hours (if the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill: Programme (No. 2) motion is agreed to) Notes: For Lords Amendments and motions relating to them, see separate papers (also available on the documents webpage for the Bill). If the Programme (No. 2) motion is agreed to, proceedings in relation to the Lords Amendments must be brought to a conclusion no later than three hours after their commencement. None of the Lords Amendments engages Commons financial privilege. Relevant Documents: Seventeenth Report of the Defence Committee, Session 2017-19, Drawing a line: Protecting veterans by a Statute of Limitations, HC 1224, and the Government Response, Second Special Report of the Committee Session 2019-21, HC 325 Oral evidence taken before the Defence Committee on 22 April 2020 on introductory Session with the Defence Secretary, HC 295, and on 7 July 2020 on work of the Chief of the Defence Staff, HC 594 Defence Committee correspondence with the Defence Secretary in relation to the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill, dated 6 May and 14 July 2020, and the Department’s reply dated 18 September 2020 The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. 5. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY) Until any hour (if the 7.00pm Business of the House motion is agreed to) Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That, at this day’s sitting, the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the three Motions in the name of Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg relating to the 6 Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 BUSINESS Today: CHAMBER Committee on Standards’ recommendations on confidentiality in the House’s standards system and sanctions in respect of the conduct of Members not later than 90 minutes after the commencement of proceedings on the motion for this Order; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments to the Motions selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; these Motions may be proceeded with, though opposed, at any hour; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply. BUSINESS TO BE TAKEN AT 7.00PM BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE No debate (Standing Order No. 15) The Prime Minister That, at this day’s sitting, proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg relating to Business of the House (Today) may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour, and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply. BUSINESS OF THE DAY 6. CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE HOUSE’S STANDARDS SYSTEM Up to 90 minutes after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) motion (if agreed to) Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That– (1) this House reaffirms its commitment to the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) and to tackling bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct on the part of anyone who works for or with Parliament; reasserts the importance of confidentiality within the ICGS in order to protect the vulnerable and encourage victims to come forward; notes the concerns expressed by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, as set out in the Appendix to the Sixth Report of the Committee on Standards, Confidentiality in the House’s standards system (HC 474), about the operation of certain aspects of the confidentiality regime set up by the House in its decisions of 19 July 2018; agrees to the recommendations specified in paragraph 22 of the Committee’s Twelfth Report, Sanctions and confidentiality in the House’s standards system: revised proposals (HC 1340); and notes that nothing in these recommendations undermines the key ICGS principle of confidentiality; (2) Standing Order No. 150 is amended as follows: in paragraph 12, line 8, to leave out “statistical” before “information” and to add “and matters under investigation” after “received”. Wednesday 21 April 2021 OP No.203: Part 1 BUSINESS Today: CHAMBER 7 7. SANCTIONS IN RESPECT OF THE CONDUCT OF MEMBERS Up to 90 minutes after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) motion (if agreed to) Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That– (1) this House notes the Seventh Report of the Committee on Standards, Sanctions in respect of the conduct of Members (HC 241) and the Committee’s Twelfth Report, Sanctions and confidentiality in the House’s standards system: revised proposals (HC 1340); endorses the Committee’s approach to creating a revised regime of sanctions for breaches of the Code of Conduct in relation both to Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) cases and non-ICGS cases; notes that the two reports propose which sanctions will be available to be imposed by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) in ICGS cases, by the Committee on Standards in non-ICGS cases, and by the House itself, with tables showing ICGS and non- ICGS sanctions as
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