Monday 12 July 2021 Order Paper No.31: Part 1 SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER 2.30pm Prayers Afterwards Oral Questions: Home Office 3.30pm Ministerial Statements, including on: Covid-19 update (Secretary of State for Health and Social Care) Until 10.00pm Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill: Second Reading Followed by Motion without separate debate: Programme Ways and Means No debate Statutory Instruments (Motions for approval) No debate after Business of the House (13 July) (Motion) 10.00pm No debate after Delegated Legislation (Motion to refer) 10.00pm Until 10.30pm or Adjournment Debate: Relocation of Public Health England to for half an hour Harlow (Robert Halfon) WESTMINSTER HALL 4.30pm Debate on e-petition relating to research into motor neurone disease 6.15pm Debate on e-petition relating to water safety 2 Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 CONTENTS CONTENTS PART 1: BUSINESS TODAY 3 Chamber 8 Westminster Hall 9 Written Statements 10 Committees Meeting Today 12 Committee Reports Published Today 13 Announcements 17 Further Information PART 2: FUTURE BUSINESS 20 A. Calendar of Business 50 B. Remaining Orders and Notices Notes: Item marked [R] indicates that a member has declared a relevant interest. Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 3 BUSINESS TODAY: CHAMBER Virtual participation in proceedings will commence after Prayers. 2.30pm Prayers Followed by QUESTIONS 1. Home Office The call list for Members participating is available on the House of Commons business papers pages. STATEMENTS 3.30pm Ministerial Statements, including on: Covid-19 update (Secretary of State for Health and Social Care) The call list for Members participating will be made available on the House of Commons business papers pages. BUSINESS OF THE DAY 1. HIGHER EDUCATION (FREEDOM OF SPEECH) BILL: SECOND READING Until 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3)) Keir Starmer Angela Rayner Kate Green Matt Western Thangam Debbonaire Sir Alan Campbell That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, notwithstanding the need to ensure legal protections for freedom of speech and academic freedom, because the Bill is a hate speech protection bill which could provide legal protection and financial recompense to those seeking to engage in harmful and dangerous speech on university campuses, including Holocaust denial, racism, and anti-vaccination messages. 4 Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER Daisy Cooper Ed Davey Wendy Chamberlain Mr Alistair Carmichael Tim Farron Layla Moran Jamie Stone Wera Hobhouse Christine Jardine Sarah Olney Munira Wilson Sarah Green That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill because higher education institutions already operate within a legal and regulatory framework in which they are required to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secured for academic staff, students, employees and for visiting speakers, because the Bill exposes higher education institutions and student unions to unnecessary additional burdens to meet the proposed regulatory duties, including potential civil litigation costs, and because the Bill fails to bring forward meaningful reforms to balance the competing legal obligations already in existence. John McDonnell Bell Ribeiro-Addy Apsana Begum Ian Lavery Ian Mearns Zarah Sultana Claudia Webbe Ms Diane Abbott Jeremy Corbyn Kate Osamor Lloyd Russell-Moyle Kate Osborne Jon Trickett Ian Byrne Dawn Butler That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, notwithstanding the importance of protecting freedom of speech and academic freedom in higher education, because the Bill would undermine rather than strengthen those freedoms, because the Bill fails to protect academic freedom and actually narrows the legal definition of it, limiting protections for academic staff, because the Bill fails to address the most serious threats to freedom of speech and academic freedom in the form of endemic casualised employment, attacks on the arts and humanities, insecurity of research funding, and the Government’s own policies such as the Prevent duty, because the Bill fails to offer protections to staff who are targeted for redundancy by management because of their research, and because the Bill fails to secure the ability of staff to speak out against their employers, and would empower the Office for Students to politically interfere in university and academic life, seriously imperilling academic freedom and democratic norms. Relevant Documents: Fourth Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2017-19, Freedom of Speech in Universities, HC 589/ HL 111 Eighth Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2017-19, Freedom of Speech in Universities: Responses, HC 1279/ HL 162 Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 5 Letter from the Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights to Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP, Secretary of State for Education, regarding the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, dated 24 June 2021 Letter from Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP, Secretary of State for Education, to the Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, regarding the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, dated 7 July 2021 The call list for Members participating will be made available on the House of Commons business papers pages. 2. HIGHER EDUCATION (FREEDOM OF SPEECH) BILL: PROGRAMME No debate (Standing Order No. 83A(7)) Secretary Gavin Williamson That the following provisions shall apply to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) 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 23 September 2021. (3) The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets. Proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading (4) Proceedings on Consideration 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 Third Reading. Other proceedings (7) Any other proceedings on the Bill may be programmed. 3. HIGHER EDUCATION (FREEDOM OF SPEECH) BILL: WAYS AND MEANS No debate (Standing Order 52(1)(a)) Jesse Norman That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the charging of fees. 6 Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 4. PUBLIC HEALTH No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)) Secretary Sajid Javid That the draft Coronavirus Act 2020 (Early Expiry) Regulations 2021, which were laid before this House on 21 April, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved. Notes: If this item is opposed after 10.00pm, the division will be deferred. 5. CRIMINAL LAW No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)) Secretary Brandon Lewis That the draft Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of Duration of Non-jury Trial Provisions) Order 2021, which was laid before this House on 26 April, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved. Notes: If this item is opposed after 10.00pm, the division will be deferred. 6. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)) Secretary Alister Jack That the draft Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance, Young Carer Grants, Short-term Assistance and Winter Heating Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2021, which was laid before this House on 17 May, be approved. Notes: If this item is opposed after 10.00pm, the division will be deferred. 7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (13 JULY) No debate after 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6)) Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That, at the sitting on Tuesday 13 July– (1) the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg relating to English votes for English laws not later than one hour after their commencement; (2) such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments to that Motion selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; (3) the business on that Motion may be entered upon and proceeded with at any hour, though opposed; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply. Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: CHAMBER 7 8. DELEGATED LEGISLATION (CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS) No debate after 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6)) Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg That the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 161), dated 18 February 2021, a copy of which was laid before this House on 19 February 2021, in the last Session of Parliament, be referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee. ADJOURNMENT DEBATE Until 10.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7)) Relocation of Public Health England to Harlow: Robert Halfon 8 Monday 12 July 2021 OP No.31: Part 1 BUSINESS TOday: WESTMINSTER HALL BUSINESS TODAY: WESTMINSTER HALL ORDER OF BUSINESS The sitting will start at 4.30pm and finish at 7.45pm with a 15 minute suspension at 6.00pm. (Standing Order No. 10(1) and Orders of 25 March and 16 June) The call list for Members participating will be made available on the House of Commons business papers pages. 4.30pm That this House has considered e-petition 564582, relating to research into motor neurone disease: Martyn Day, on behalf of the Petitions Committee 6.15pm That this House has considered e-petition 576563, relating to water safety: Catherine McKinnell, on behalf of the Petitions Committee Notes: The subjects for these debates were determined by the Petitions Committee.