Tuesday 23 June 2020 Order Paper No.71: Part 1 SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER 11.30am Prayers Afterwards Oral Questions: Health and Social Care † 12.30pm Ministerial Statements, including on: Covid-19 update (Prime Minister) † Windrush (Home Secretary) † Up to 20 minutes Ten Minute Rule Motion: Desecration of War Memorials (Jonathan Gullis) Until 7.00pm Medicines and Medical Devices Bill: Remaining Stages Until any hour* Business of the House (Today) (Motion) (*If the 7.00pm Business of the House Motion is agreed to) Up to one hour Independent Determination of Complaints of bullying and after the start of harassment (Motion) proceedings on (**If the Business of the House (Today) Motion is agreed to) the Business of the House (Today) Motion** Up to one hour Independent Expert Panel (Motion) (**If the Business of the after the start of House (Today) Motion is agreed to) proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) Motion** Up to one hour Matters raised on motions consequent on the Independent after the start of Complaints and Grievance Scheme (Motion) proceedings on (**If the Business of the House (Today) Motion is agreed to) the Business of the House (Today) Motion** No debate Statutory Instrument (Motion for approval) No debate Presentation of Public Petitions 2 Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 Until 7.30pm or for Adjournment Debate: Windrush day 2020 (Helen Hayes) half an hour † Virtual participation in proceedings Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 CONTENTS 3 CONTENTS PART 1: BUSINESS TODAY 4 Chamber 14 Written Statements 15 Committees Meeting Today 19 Announcements 20 Further Information PART 2: FUTURE BUSINESS 22 A. Calendar of Business 40 B. Remaining Orders and Notices Notes: Item marked [R] indicates that a member has declared a relevant interest. 4 Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER BUSINESS TODAY: CHAMBER Virtual participation in proceedings will commence after Prayers. 11.30am Prayers Followed by QUESTIONS 1. Health and Social Care The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS Ministerial Statements, including Prime Minister on covid-19 update and Secretary of State for the Home Department on Windrush The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. Virtual participation in proceedings will conclude after Urgent Questions and Ministerial Statements BUSINESS OF THE DAY 1. DESECRATION OF WAR MEMORIALS: TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23) Jonathan Gullis That leave be given to bring in a Bill to create the offence of desecrating a war memorial; and for connected purposes. Notes: The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to 10 minutes. 2. MEDICINES AND MEDICAL DEVICES BILL: REMAINING STAGES Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3) and Order of 2 March) Notes: As amended in Public Bill Committee, to be considered. For amendments see separate paper (also available on the documents webpage for the Bill). Proceedings will be taken in accordance with the Programme Order agreed by the House on 2 March: proceedings on Consideration shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 6.00pm, Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 5 and proceedings on Third Reading shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7.00pm. The Northern Ireland Assembly has approved a Legislative Consent Motion relating to this Bill. Copies of the Resolution are available in the Vote Office (also available on the documents webpage for the Bill). The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. BUSINESS TO BE TAKEN AT 7.00PM BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE No debate (Standing Order Nos. 15 and 41(A)) The Prime Minister That, at this day’s sitting, 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. 41(A) (Deferred divisions) will not apply. BUSINESS OF THE DAY 3. 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 motions in the name of Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg relating to the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) one hour after the commencement of proceedings on the motion for this Order; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; the business may be proceeded with, though opposed, after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply. The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. 4. INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION OF COMPLAINTS OF BULLYING AND HARASSMENT Up to one hour after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) if that motion is agreed to Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That 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 is or was a member of the parliamentary community; accepts the recommendation in the report by Dame Laura Cox QC on The Bullying and Harassment of House of Commons Staff that complaints against Members should be determined by an independent body; agrees with the proposal brought forward by the House of Commons 6 Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER Commission to implement this recommendation; accordingly agrees to the establishment of an independent panel of experts which shall operate in accordance with the principles of fairness, transparency and natural justice; and expects all Members of this House to cooperate with the Panel’s work and comply with its decisions. Amendment (a) Mr Alistair Carmichael Jamie Stone Layla Moran Sir Edward Davey Wendy Chamberlain Munira Wilson Tim Farron Daisy Cooper Christine Jardine Wera Hobhouse Sarah Olney Line 9, after ‘justice’ insert ‘confers on the Panel full powers to exercise, in accordance with those principles, the exclusive cognisance of this House over its own membership, including the power to suspend or expel its members;’ Relevant Documents: House of Commons Commission, Independent Expert Panel for considering cases brought under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme: Explanatory Paper, HC 538 The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. 5. INDEPENDENT EXPERT PANEL Up to one hour after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House (Today) if that motion is agreed to Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That the following Standing Orders, amendments to standing orders and amendments to the Code of Conduct be made: A. Independent Expert Panel (1) There shall be a Panel, to be known as the Independent Expert Panel for the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (the “ICGS”), whose members shall be appointed by the House in accordance with Standing Order (Appointment of Independent Expert Panel Members). (2) The Panel shall consist of eight members, of whom a quorum shall be four. (3) The functions of the Panel shall be: (a) to determine the appropriate sanction in ICGS cases referred to it by the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards; (b) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in respect of ICGS cases involving Members of this House; (c) to hear appeals against a sanction imposed under paragraph (a); Tuesday 23 June 2020 OP No.71: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 7 (d) to report from time to time, through the Clerk of the House, on the operation of the ICGS as it relates to Members of this House. (4) The Panel may elect its own Chair. (5) The responsibilities of the Chair shall include: (a) ensuring that the Panel and its sub-panels comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions and standing orders of this House; (b) the appointment of sub-panels to consider individual cases; (c) co-ordinating the work of the Panel with that of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards; (d) referring any report from a sub-panel which determines a sanction that can only be imposed by the House to the Clerk of the House who shall lay it upon the Table of the House; (e) informing the parties concerned of the outcome of any other case reported to the Chair by a sub-panel and ensuring compliance as appropriate with its recommendations; (f) establishing the procedure for an appeal against the findings or determination of a sub-panel in cases referred under (3)(a) above; (g) reporting to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards any case of non- compliance under sub-paragraph (e) above by a Member of this House; (h) ensuring publication of an Annual Report on the functioning of the Panel and its sub-panels by referring the report to the Clerk of the House for laying on the Table. (6) The Panel and any sub-panel shall have power (a) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House; (b) to order the attendance of any Member before it and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of the Commissioner, be laid before it; (c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Panel’s order of reference.