No. 115 1 House of Commons Monday 27 February 2017 Votes and Proceedings The House met at 2.30 pm. PRAYERS. 1 Death of a Member (Father of the House) The Speaker made the following communication to the House: It is with great sadness that I have to report to the House the death of the right hon. Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton. He will be sorely missed by his relatives, by his friends, by his constituents and by his parliamentary colleagues, not to mention very large numbers of people across this country and around the world. Colleagues, before Gerald entered Parliament, and after leaving Leeds Grammar School and Oxford University, Gerald worked as assistant general secretary of the Fabian Society and subsequently as a journalist on the Daily Mirror and for the New Statesman. Thereafter, he was parliamentary press liaison officer for the Labour party, working closely with Harold Wilson. He entered this House, as colleagues will know, in June 1970, as the Member of Parliament for Manchester, Ardwick, which constituency he represented until 1983. Thereafter, and following boundary changes, he represented Manchester Gorton from 1983 without interruption. He was, as we know, the Father of the House. He served in this place diligently, with principle and utter dedication, for well over 46 years. Under Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, Gerald served as a Minister with responsibility for the environment and subsequently with responsibility for industry. In opposition, he was a long-serving and distinguished member of Labour’s shadow Cabinet, serving as shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, as shadow Home Secretary and, indeed, as shadow Foreign Secretary. Many people will know that he was a prolific writer and the author of several books, not least, and perhaps most memorably, a book entitled “How to be a Minister”. After he ceased to serve on the Front Bench, Gerald chaired, initially, the Select Committee on National Heritage for, if memory serves me correctly, a full Parliament, and then, when the Committee took its new form—the Culture, Media and Sport Committee—Gerald chaired that Committee for two whole Parliaments. Since 2010, Gerald has been the longest serving Labour Member of Parliament, and since 2015 he has, of course, been Father of the House. In more recent years, I have been privileged to be supported by Gerald on the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, of which he was, if I can put it this way, a highly distinguished ornament. Gerald was, of course, a passionate, eloquent, relentless, indefatigable campaigner for social justice at home and abroad. I will not pretend that he was always the easiest of colleagues. If you were lauded or praised by Gerald, you doubtless took delight in the experience; if you were attacked or denounced by Sir Gerald, you could be in no doubt on the matter. But there was that fidelity to principle, that commitment to causes and that insistence on doing his duty by his constituents, by his party and by his country. Gerald will be mourned very widely indeed, and in expressing, I hope on behalf of the House, our condolences to his relatives and friends, I should perhaps just take this opportunity to say to the House that colleagues will have a chance to pay tribute to Sir Gerald later this week. 2 Votes and Proceedings: 27 February 2017 No. 115 2 Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 3 Introduction of new Member Gareth Snell, Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central, made the Affirmation required by law. 4 Urgent Question: Loss of confidential correspondence by NHS Shared Business Services (Secretary Jeremy Hunt) 5 Estimates Day (Standing Order No. 54(1) and Resolution, 21 February) (2nd allotted day) (1) Supplementary Estimate 2016–17: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Subject for debate: Future flood prevention Motion made and Question proposed, That, for the year ending with 31 March 2017, for expenditure by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: (1) further resources, not exceeding £420,838,000 be authorised for use for current purposes as set out in HC 946, (2) further resources, not exceeding £61,363,000 be authorised for use for capital purposes as so set out, and (3) a further sum, not exceeding £100,109,000 be granted to Her Majesty to be issued by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund and applied for expenditure on the use of resources authorised by Parliament.—(Graham Stuart.) Debate concluded and Question deferred until tomorrow (Standing Order No. 54(4)). (2) Supplementary Estimate 2016–17: Department of Health Subject for debate: Health and social care Motion made and Question proposed, That, for the year ending with 31 March 2017, for expenditure by the Department of Health: (1) further resources, not exceeding £8,716,216,000 be authorised for use for current purposes as set out in HC 946, (2) the resources authorised for use for capital purposes be reduced by £1,193,967,000 as so set out, and (3) the sum authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund be reduced by £1,038,424,000.—(Chris Heaton-Harris.) Debate concluded and Question deferred until tomorrow (Standing Order No. 54(4)). 6 Statutory Instruments: Motions for Approval (1) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Claims in respect of Loss or Damage arising from Competition Infringements (Competition Act 1998 and Other Enactments (Amendment)) Regulations 2017, which were laid before this House on 20 December 2016, be approved.—(Andrew Griffiths.) Question agreed to. (2) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2017, which was laid before this House on 25 January, be approved.—(Andrew Griffiths.) Question agreed to. (3) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017, which were laid before this House on 18 January, be approved.—(Andrew Griffiths.) Question agreed to. No. 115 Votes and Proceedings: 27 February 2017 3 (4) Motion made and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)), That the draft Transport Levying Bodies (Amendment) Regulations 2017, which were laid before this House on 24 January, be approved.—(Andrew Griffiths.) Question agreed to. 7 Adjournment Subject: ICL Boulby Potash Mine (Tom Blenkinsop). Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Andrew Griffiths.) Adjourned at 10.25 pm until tomorrow. _________________ Other proceedings General Committees: Reports 8 First Delegated Legislation Committee Mrs Madeleine Moon (Chair) reported the draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2017. 9 Second Delegated Legislation Committee Joan Ryan (Chair) reported the draft Business Impact Target (Relevant Regulators) Regulations 2017. 10 Third Delegated Legislation Committee David Hanson (Chair) reported the draft Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017. General Committees: Appointments The Speaker appoints the Chair of General Committees and members of Programming Sub- Committees, and allocates Statutory Instruments to Delegated Legislation Committees. The Committee of Selection nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees). 11 Farriers (Registration) Bill Committee Members: Dr Lisa Cameron and Mrs Madeleine Moon discharged and Douglas Chapman and Gerald Jones nominated in substitution. 12 First Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2017) Members: Dr James Davies and John Penrose discharged and Sir Julian Brazier and William Wragg nominated in substitution. 13 Second Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Business Impact Target (Relevant Regulators) Regulations 2017) Members: Patricia Gibson and Mrs Helen Grant discharged and Jo Churchill and Margaret Ferrier nominated in substitution. 14 Third Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017) Members: Dr Paul Monaghan and Alec Shelbrooke discharged and James Duddridge and Roger Mullin nominated in substitution. 4 Votes and Proceedings: 27 February 2017 No. 115 15 Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (Draft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and the draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2017) Members: Karl McCartney and Mrs Maria Miller discharged and Steve Double and Stephen Hammond nominated in substitution. Reports from Select Committees 16 Communities and Local Government Committee Capacity in the home building industry: Oral evidence, to be published (HC 47) (Mr Clive Betts). 17 Public Accounts (Committee of) (1) Integrating health and social care: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 959); (2) Correspondence with Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health relating to an update on the NHS Shared Business Services patient correspondence incident: Written evidence, to be published; (3) Financial sustainability of schools: Written evidence, to be published (HC 890); (4) HMRC’s contract with Concentrix: Written evidence, to be published (HC 998); (5) National Citizen Service: Written evidence, to be published (HC 955); (6) Restoration and renewal: Written evidence, to be published (HC 1005) (Meg Hillier). 18 Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (1)Lessons still to be learned from