# articles

chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083P
current_num: 83P
root_num: 307
text:
The Speaker shall-[NEWLINE](a) consider every instrument to which this order applies, and[NEWLINE](b) certify any such instrument which, in the Speaker's opinion-[NEWLINE](i) relates exclusively to England or to England and Wales, and[NEWLINE](ii) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]An instrument-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence;[NEWLINE](b) relates exclusively to England and Wales and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England and Wales and is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (2) to (4), (6) and (7) of Standing Order No. 83J apply for the purposes of this order; and as so applied those paragraphs have effect as if-[NEWLINE](a) references to a bill were to an instrument, and[NEWLINE](b) references to a clause or schedule were to a provision of an instrument.[NEWLINE]In deciding whether to certify an instrument under this order the Speaker may consult two members of the Panel of Chairs who are appointed for this purpose by the Committee of Selection on a session by session basis.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall announce any decision under this order to the House.[NEWLINE]This order applies to any instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament where the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) meets any of conditions A to C, and[NEWLINE](b) is not a report within paragraph (1)(a) to (c) of Standing Order No. 83R.[NEWLINE]Condition A is that the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) stands referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee pursuant to paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees), or[NEWLINE](b) does not stand so referred because sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph applies to it.[NEWLINE]Condition B is that a member has given notice of a motion of the kind mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 in relation to the instrument and the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) stands referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee, or[NEWLINE](b) has been set down for consideration in the Chamber on a particular day.[NEWLINE]Condition C is that the Regulatory Reform Committee has made a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2) of Standing Order No. 18 (Consideration of draft legislative reform orders etc.) in relation to the instrument.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083Q
current_num: 83Q
root_num: 308
text:
This order applies to the following motions-[NEWLINE](a) a motion to approve a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](b) a motion of the kind mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 in relation to a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](c) a motion to disagree with a report of the Regulatory Reform Committee that contains a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 18 in relation to a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](d) an amendment to a motion within sub-paragraph (a) or (b).[NEWLINE]If a division is held on a motion to which this order applies, the motion shall be agreed to only if, of those voting in the division-[NEWLINE](a) a majority of Members, and[NEWLINE](b) a majority of Members representing qualifying constituencies,[NEWLINE]vote in support of the motion.[NEWLINE]In this order-[NEWLINE](a) "a certified instrument" means an instrument which has been certified under Standing Order No. 83P as relating exclusively to England or to England and Wales;[NEWLINE](b) "qualifying constituencies" means constituencies in the part of the United Kingdom to which the instrument has been certified as relating exclusively.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083R
current_num: 83R
root_num: 309
text:
This order applies to the following motions-[NEWLINE](a) a motion to approve-[NEWLINE](i) a report which has been laid before the House under paragraph 5 of Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (local government finance report) and which contains a determination under section 78 of that Act (revenue support grant), or[NEWLINE](ii) a report which has been laid before the House under section 84A of that Act (revenue support grant: amending report);[NEWLINE](b) a motion to approve a report which has been laid before the House under section 52ZD of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (referendums relating to council tax increases: principles);[NEWLINE](c) a motion to approve a report which has been laid before the House under section 46 of the Police Act 1996 (police grant);[NEWLINE](d) a motion for a resolution under section 26(2)(b)(ii) of the Higher Education Act 2004 (student fees);[NEWLINE](e) an amendment to a motion within sub-paragraph (d).[NEWLINE]If a division is held on a motion to which this order applies, the motion shall be agreed to only if, of those voting in the division-[NEWLINE](a) a majority of Members, and[NEWLINE](b) a majority of Members representing qualifying constituencies,[NEWLINE]vote in support of the motion.[NEWLINE]In this order "qualifying constituencies" means-[NEWLINE](a) in the case of a motion within paragraph (1)(a), (b), (d) or (e), constituencies in England;[NEWLINE](b) in the case of a motion within paragraph (1)(c), constituencies in England or Wales.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083S
current_num: 83S
root_num: 310
text:
In their application in relation to a bill within paragraph (2), Standing Orders Nos. 83J to 83N shall have effect with the modifications in paragraphs (3) to (5).[NEWLINE]A bill is within this paragraph if-[NEWLINE](a) it is a Finance Bill, or[NEWLINE](b) it is a bill which, before second reading, only contained provision which would be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill (or would be if the provision was to take effect in the current financial year).[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83J-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) in paragraph (2) after "Wales" (in both places) insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](c) after paragraph (4) insert-[NEWLINE]"(4A) A clause or schedule which relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland is within devolved legislative competence if it would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament to make any corresponding provision for Scotland in an Act of that Parliament.";[NEWLINE](d) in paragraph (5) after sub-paragraph (b) insert ";[NEWLINE](c) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence if every clause and every schedule of it relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence";[NEWLINE](e) in paragraph (6) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland"; and[NEWLINE](f) after paragraph (11) insert-[NEWLINE]"(12) The test in paragraph (3)(a), (4)(a) or (4A) is also met if the clause or schedule concerned sets a rate of income tax in respect of any kind of income for a person who is resident in the United Kingdom for tax purposes but is not a Scottish taxpayer where the corresponding rate for a Scottish taxpayer may be set by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament under Chapter 2 of Part 4A of the Scotland Act 1998 (and the reference in paragraph (7) to the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament includes a reference to that Chapter)".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83L, in paragraph (2)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83M-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1) after "Wales" (in each place) insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) for paragraph (4) substitute-[NEWLINE]"(4) If a Minister of the Crown indicates his or her intention to move Consent Motions which are to be passed by more than one legislative grand committee-[NEWLINE](a) the order in which the Consent Motions are to be considered is:[NEWLINE](i) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England, Wales and Northern Ireland),[NEWLINE](ii) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales), and[NEWLINE](iii) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England),[NEWLINE](b) the House shall forthwith resolve itself into the legislative grand committee which is to consider the first Consent Motion,[NEWLINE](c) on moving that motion, the Minister shall also inform the committee of the terms of any other Consent Motion to be moved in any other legislative grand committee,[NEWLINE](d) any debate in the first legislative grand committee may also relate to any other Consent Motion to be moved in any other legislative grand committee,[NEWLINE](e) on conclusion of proceedings in the first legislative grand committee-[NEWLINE](i) the House shall forthwith resolve itself into the legislative grand committee which is to consider the next Consent Motion,[NEWLINE](ii) a Minister of the Crown shall forthwith move that motion, and[NEWLINE](iii) proceedings in the second legislative grand committee shall be brought to a conclusion forthwith, and[NEWLINE](f) on conclusion of proceedings in the second legislative grand committee, sub-paragraphs (e)(i) to (iii) shall apply in relation to any third Consent Motion and a third legislative grand committee as they apply in relation to the second Consent Motion and the second legislative grand committee.";[NEWLINE](c) in paragraph (5) for "(4)(d)(iii)" substitute "(4)(e)(iii) and (f)"; and[NEWLINE](d) in paragraph (6) for "second Consent Motion" substitute "Consent Motions".


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083T
current_num: 83T
root_num: 311
text:
In their application in relation to a financial instrument, Standing Orders Nos. 83P and 83Q shall have effect with the following modifications.[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83P-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (b) insert";[NEWLINE](c) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence"; and[NEWLINE](c) in paragraph (3) for the words from the beginning to "apply" substitute "Paragraphs (2) to (4A), (6), (7) and (12) of Standing Order No. 83J (as modified by Standing Order No. 83S(3))".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83Q(3)(a) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland".[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order an instrument is a "financial instrument" if it is made or proposed to be made in exercise of powers conferred by (and only by)-[NEWLINE](a) an Act which resulted from a Finance Bill;[NEWLINE](b) a provision of an Act which would have been within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083U
current_num: 83U
root_num: 312
text:
This order applies to any founding motion which, if passed, would-[NEWLINE](a) authorise a bill to include provision which would be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill, or[NEWLINE](b) authorise a Finance Bill to include provision which would not be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall-[NEWLINE](a) consider every motion to which this order applies, and[NEWLINE](b) certify any such motion which, in the Speaker's opinion, falls within paragraph (3), (4) or (5).[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England and Wales, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]In deciding whether to certify under this order a motion to which this order applies, the Speaker may consult two members of the Panel of Chairs who are appointed for this purpose by the Committee of Selection on a session by session basis.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall announce any decision under this order to the House.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (2) to (4A), (7) and (12) of Standing Order No. 83J (as modified by Standing Order No. 83S(3)) apply for the purposes of this order; and as so applied those paragraphs have effect as if references to a clause or schedule were to a provision.[NEWLINE]In paragraph (1) "founding motion" means a motion upon which a bill is to be brought in.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083V
current_num: 83V
root_num: 313
text:
If a division is held on a motion which has been certified under Standing Order No. 83U, the motion shall be agreed to only if, of those voting in the division-[NEWLINE](a) a majority of Members, and[NEWLINE](b) a majority of Members representing qualifying constituencies,[NEWLINE]vote in support of the motion.[NEWLINE]In this order "qualifying constituencies" means-[NEWLINE](a) in a case where the motion concerned was certified as falling within paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 83U, constituencies in England;[NEWLINE](b) in a case where the motion concerned was certified as falling within paragraph (4) of that standing order, constituencies in England or Wales;[NEWLINE](c) in a case where the motion concerned was certified as falling within paragraph (5) of that standing order, constituencies in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083W
current_num: 83W
root_num: 314
text:
There shall be-[NEWLINE](a) a Legislative Grand Committee (England),[NEWLINE](b) a Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales), and[NEWLINE](c) a Legislative Grand Committee (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).[NEWLINE]The Legislative Grand Committee (England) shall consist of all Members representing constituencies in England.[NEWLINE]The Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales) shall consist of all Members representing constituencies in England and all Members representing constituencies in Wales.[NEWLINE]The Legislative Grand Committee (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) shall consist of-[NEWLINE](a) all Members representing constituencies in England,[NEWLINE](b) all Members representing constituencies in Wales, and[NEWLINE](c) all Members representing constituencies in Northern Ireland.[NEWLINE]A Deputy Speaker or a Member of the Panel of Chairs may chair a legislative grand committee.[NEWLINE]The functions of the Legislative Grand Committee (England) shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to consider any bills committed or recommitted to the committee in accordance with Standing Order No. 83K, and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any Consent Motions under Standing Order No. 83M which relate to the committee.[NEWLINE]The functions of the Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales) and the Legislative Grand Committee (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) are to consider any Consent Motions under Standing Order No. 83M which relate to them.[NEWLINE]Any Member who is not a member of a legislative grand committee may take part in the deliberations of the committee but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 0083X
current_num: 83X
root_num: 315
text:
The procedure of this House applicable to a committee of the whole House shall, so far as relevant, be applicable to a legislative grand committee.[NEWLINE]Accordingly, references in the standing orders of this House to a committee of the whole House or to the House in committee, or similar references, shall be read as references to the relevant legislative grand committee.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to Standing Order No. 82 (Business Committee).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-22
articleid: 00860
current_num: 86
root_num: 174
text:
Save in the case of-[NEWLINE](a) the Scottish Grand Committee,[NEWLINE](b) the Welsh Grand Committee,[NEWLINE](c) a committee for the consideration of a bill on report, and[NEWLINE](d) a European Committee,[NEWLINE]the Committee of Selection shall nominate not fewer than sixteen nor more than fifty Members to serve on each general committee for the consideration of each bill allocated or referred to it, or for the consideration of instruments (whether or not in draft) referred to it.[NEWLINE]In nominating such Members the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of those Members nominated and to the composition of the House, and shall have power to discharge Members from time to time and appoint others in substitution for those discharged: Provided that-[NEWLINE](i) for the consideration of any public bill certified by the Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland or of a public bill (or part of a public bill) ordered to be considered by a Scottish public bill committee, the committee shall be so constituted as to include not fewer than sixteen Members representing Scottish constituencies;[NEWLINE](ii) for the consideration of any public bill relating exclusively to Wales, the committee shall be so constituted as to include all Members sitting for constituencies in Wales;[NEWLINE](iii) for the consideration of any bill a draft of which, or of parts of which, has been considered by a committee of this House, the Committee of Selection shall treat a Member's membership of that committee as one of the qualifications to which it shall have regard;[NEWLINE](iv) for the consideration of any bill certified by the Speaker under Standing Order No. 83J (or, in the case of recommittal after recertification, Standing Order No. 83L) as relating exclusively to England and being within devolved legislative competence, the Committee of Selection, in nominating Members to a public bill committee, shall have regard to the composition of that part of the House consisting of Members representing constituencies in England; and no Member who does not represent a constituency in England shall be nominated to such a committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-28
articleid: 0148A
current_num: 148A
root_num: 295
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee of Privileges, to consider specific matters relating to privileges referred to it by the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, of whom three shall be a quorum.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees of whom three shall be a quorum, and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) 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 committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees of Privileges and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2015-10-28
articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, but lay members may not move any motion or any amendment to any motion or draft report, and may not vote.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2016-10-11
articleid: 01190
current_num: 119
root_num: 195
text:
There shall be three general committees, called European Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.[NEWLINE]If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]Each European Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of any European Union document which stands referred to it, and the Committee of Selection may nominate the same membership in respect of several documents.[NEWLINE]In nominating the members of a European Committee, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and where practicable it shall nominate at least two members of the European Scrutiny Committee and at least two members of the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) whose responsibilities most closely relate to the subject matter of the document or documents.[NEWLINE]The quorum of a European Committee shall be three, excluding the chair.[NEWLINE]Any Member, though not nominated to a European Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below.[NEWLINE]The European Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and, subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly-[NEWLINE]European Committees | Principal subject matter[NEWLINE] | Matters within the responsibilities of the following Departments-[NEWLINE]A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Communities and Local Government; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.[NEWLINE]B | HM Treasury (including HM Revenue & Customs); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Ministry of Justice (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Committee A); International Trade; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.[NEWLINE]C | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Children, Schools and Families; Culture, Media and Sport; Health.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit a member of the European Scrutiny Committee appointed to the committee under paragraph (4) above to make a brief statement of no more than five minutes, at the beginning of the sitting, explaining that committee's decision to refer the document or documents to a European Committee.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chair may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.[NEWLINE]Following the conclusion of the proceedings under the previous paragraph, the motion referred to therein may be made, to which amendments may be moved; and, if proceedings thereon have not been previously concluded, the chair shall interrupt the consideration of such motion and amendments when the committee shall have sat for a period of two and a half hours, and shall then put forthwith successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the chair; and[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended).[NEWLINE]The chair shall thereupon report to the House any resolution to which the committee has come, or that it has come to no resolution, without any further question being put.[NEWLINE]If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (10) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved;[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended);[NEWLINE]and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]With the modifications provided in this Order, the following Standing Orders shall apply to European Committees- No. 85 (Chair of general committees); No. 88 (Meetings of general committees); and No. 89 (Procedure in general committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2016-10-11
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2016-10-11
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Communities and Local Government | Department for Communities and Local Government | 11[NEWLINE]3 Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]5 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]6 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]7 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]8 Health | Department of Health | 11[NEWLINE]9 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]11 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]12 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


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articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-01-24
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


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versionid: 2017-01-24
articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-03-07
articleid: 0083S
current_num: 83S
root_num: 310
text:
In their application in relation to a bill within paragraph (2), Standing Orders Nos. 83J to 83N shall have effect with the modifications in paragraphs (3) to (5).[NEWLINE]A bill is within this paragraph if-[NEWLINE](a) it is a Finance Bill, or[NEWLINE](b) it is a bill which, before second reading, only contained provision which would be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill (or would be if the provision was to take effect in the current financial year).[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83J-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) in paragraph (2) after "Wales" (in both places) insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](c) after paragraph (4) insert-[NEWLINE]"(4A) A clause or schedule which relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland is within devolved legislative competence if it would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament to make any corresponding provision for Scotland in an Act of that Parliament.;[NEWLINE](4B) In addition, a clause or schedule-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence,[NEWLINE]if it does nothing other than set one or more of the main rates of income tax for a tax year.";[NEWLINE](d) in paragraph (5) after sub-paragraph (b) insert ";[NEWLINE](c) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence if every clause and every schedule of it relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence"; and[NEWLINE](e) in paragraph (6) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83L, in paragraph (2)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83M-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1) after "Wales" (in each place) insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) for paragraph (4) substitute-[NEWLINE]"(4) If a Minister of the Crown indicates his or her intention to move Consent Motions which are to be passed by more than one legislative grand committee-[NEWLINE](a) the order in which the Consent Motions are to be considered is:[NEWLINE](i) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England, Wales and Northern Ireland),[NEWLINE](ii) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England and Wales), and[NEWLINE](iii) any motion to be considered by the Legislative Grand Committee (England),[NEWLINE](b) the House shall forthwith resolve itself into the legislative grand committee which is to consider the first Consent Motion,[NEWLINE](c) on moving that motion, the Minister shall also inform the committee of the terms of any other Consent Motion to be moved in any other legislative grand committee,[NEWLINE](d) any debate in the first legislative grand committee may also relate to any other Consent Motion to be moved in any other legislative grand committee,[NEWLINE](e) on conclusion of proceedings in the first legislative grand committee-[NEWLINE](i) the House shall forthwith resolve itself into the legislative grand committee which is to consider the next Consent Motion,[NEWLINE](ii) a Minister of the Crown shall forthwith move that motion, and[NEWLINE](iii) proceedings in the second legislative grand committee shall be brought to a conclusion forthwith, and[NEWLINE](f) on conclusion of proceedings in the second legislative grand committee, sub-paragraphs (e)(i) to (iii) shall apply in relation to any third Consent Motion and a third legislative grand committee as they apply in relation to the second Consent Motion and the second legislative grand committee.";[NEWLINE](c) in paragraph (5) for "(4)(d)(iii)" substitute "(4)(e)(iii) and (f)"; and[NEWLINE](d) in paragraph (6) for "second Consent Motion" substitute "Consent Motions".


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-03-07
articleid: 0083T
current_num: 83T
root_num: 311
text:
In their application in relation to a financial instrument, Standing Orders Nos. 83P and 83Q shall have effect with the following modifications.[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83P-[NEWLINE](a) in paragraph (1)(b)(i) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland";[NEWLINE](b) in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (b) insert";[NEWLINE](c) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is within devolved legislative competence"; and[NEWLINE](c) in paragraph (3) for the words from the beginning to "apply" substitute "Paragraphs (2) to (4A), (6), and (7) of Standing Order No. 83J (as modified by Standing Order No. 83S(3))".[NEWLINE]In Standing Order No. 83Q(3)(a) after "Wales" insert "or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland".[NEWLINE]For the purposes of this order an instrument is a "financial instrument" if it is made or proposed to be made in exercise of powers conferred by (and only by)-[NEWLINE](a) an Act which resulted from a Finance Bill;[NEWLINE](b) a provision of an Act which would have been within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-03-07
articleid: 0083U
current_num: 83U
root_num: 312
text:
This order applies to any founding motion which, if passed, would-[NEWLINE](a) authorise a bill to include provision which would be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill, or[NEWLINE](b) authorise a Finance Bill to include provision which would not be within the ordinary scope of a Finance Bill.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall-[NEWLINE](a) consider every motion to which this order applies, and[NEWLINE](b) certify any such motion which, in the Speaker's opinion, falls within paragraph (3), (4) or (5).[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England and Wales, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]A motion falls within this paragraph if it would, if passed, only authorise a bill to include provision which-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and[NEWLINE](b) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]In deciding whether to certify under this order a motion to which this order applies, the Speaker may consult two members of the Panel of Chairs who are appointed for this purpose by the Committee of Selection on a session by session basis.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall announce any decision under this order to the House.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (2) to (4B) and (7) of Standing Order No. 83J (as modified by Standing Order No. 83S(3)) apply for the purposes of this order; and as so applied those paragraphs have effect as if references to a clause or schedule were to a provision.[NEWLINE]In paragraph (1) "founding motion" means a motion upon which a bill is to be brought in.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 00100
current_num: 10
root_num: 261
text:
On days on which the House sits there shall also be a sitting in Westminster Hall-[NEWLINE](a) on Mondays beginning at 4.30pm and continuing for up to three hours, if the Petitions Committee has reported its determination that a sitting in Westminster Hall to consider one or more petitions or e-petitions should take place on that day;[NEWLINE](b) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning at 9.30 am, which shall be suspended from 11.30 am till 2.30 pm and may then continue for up to a further three hours; and[NEWLINE](c) on Thursdays beginning at 1.30 pm and continuing for up to three hours.[NEWLINE]The exceptions are as follows:[NEWLINE](a) that there will be no sittings in Westminster Hall until the House has concluded its debate on the Queen's Speech at the commencement of each Session; and[NEWLINE](b) that if the sitting occurs on a Tuesday or Wednesday which is the first day on which the House sits immediately following a periodic adjournment of the House of more than two days, the sitting shall be between 9.30 am and 2.30 pm.[NEWLINE]When a sitting (including the time when a sitting is due to commence or resume), or any part of a sitting, in Westminster Hall coincides with a sitting of the House, the Chair shall suspend the sitting to allow Members to participate in any division called in the House or a committee of the whole House, and the time taken for any such suspensions shall be added to the duration of the sitting in Westminster Hall specified in paragraph (1) of this order and to any time specified by the Chairman of Ways and Means under paragraph (6) of this order.[NEWLINE]Any Member of the House may take part in a sitting in Westminster Hall.[NEWLINE]The quorum at a sitting in Westminster Hall shall be three.[NEWLINE]The business taken at any sitting in Westminster Hall shall be such as the Chairman of Ways and Means shall appoint, and may include oral questions. The Chairman of Ways and Means may specify the finishing time of any business taken at a sitting in Westminster Hall; and the motion under consideration shall lapse at that time if not previously disposed of.[NEWLINE]Notwithstanding paragraph (6), the business taken at any Thursday sitting in Westminster Hall shall be such as the Backbench Business Committee or the Liaison Committee shall determine; and so far as possible the time available at such sittings during a Session shall be divided as nearly as practical equally between those committees, subject to the agreement of the Chairs of those committees.[NEWLINE]If a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown that an order of the day be proceeded with at a sitting in Westminster Hall, the question on it shall be put forthwith, but such motion may be made only with the leave of the House and may not be made on a Friday.[NEWLINE]If any business other than a motion for adjournment or a motion to which Standing Order No. 24B (Amendments to motions to consider specified matters) applies is under consideration at a sitting in Westminster Hall, and not fewer than six Members rise in their places and signify their objection to further proceedings, that business shall not be further proceeded with in Westminster Hall, and the Chair shall report to the House accordingly, and any order under paragraph (8) above relating thereto shall be discharged.[NEWLINE]The Chairman of Ways and Means or a Deputy Chairman may take the chair in Westminster Hall as Deputy Speaker; and any member of the Panel of Chairs may also take the chair at a sitting in Westminster Hall when so requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means.[NEWLINE]If any Member persistently defies the authority of the Chair at a sitting in Westminster Hall, the Chair of that sitting may order the Member to withdraw from that sitting; and if the Member does not do so, the Chair may suspend the sitting and report the conduct of the Member to the House.[NEWLINE]Any resolution come to at a sitting in Westminster Hall (other than a resolution to adjourn) shall be reported to the House by the Deputy Speaker and shall be a resolution of the House.[NEWLINE]If at a sitting in Westminster Hall the opinion of the Chair as to the decision of a question (other than a question for adjournment) is challenged, that question shall not be decided, and the Chair shall report to the House accordingly; and any such question shall be put forthwith upon a motion being made in the House.[NEWLINE]At the end of each sitting in Westminster Hall, unless a question for adjournment has previously been agreed to, the Chair shall adjourn the sitting without putting any question; and proceedings on any business which has been started but not disposed of shall lapse.[NEWLINE]The provisions of Standing Orders No. 29 (Powers of chair to propose question), No. 36 (Closure of debate), No. 37 (Majority for closure or for proposal of question), No. 38 (Procedure on divisions), No. 39 (Voting), No. 40 (Division unnecessarily claimed), No. 41 (Quorum), No. 43 (Disorderly conduct), No. 44 (Order in debate), No. 45 (Members suspended, etc., to withdraw from precincts), No. 45A (Suspension of salary of Members suspended) and No. 163 (Motions to sit in private) shall not apply to sittings in Westminster Hall.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 00120
current_num: 12
root_num: 229
text:
Unless the House otherwise orders, the House shall not sit on any Friday other than those on which private Members' bills have precedence.[NEWLINE]At its rising on the Thursday before a Friday on which the House is not sitting the House shall stand adjourned till the following Monday without any question being put, unless it shall have resolved otherwise.[NEWLINE]Unless the House shall have resolved to adjourn otherwise than from the previous Thursday to the following Monday, the Fridays on which the House does not sit shall be treated as sitting days for the purpose of calculating any period under any order of the House and for the purposes of paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments) and of Standing Order No. 64 (Notices of amendments, etc., to bills); and on such Fridays-[NEWLINE](a) notices of questions may be given by Members to the Table Office, and[NEWLINE](b) notices of amendments to bills, new clauses and new schedules and of amendments to Lords amendments, and notices of Consent Motions under Standing Order No. 83M (Consent Motions for certified England only or England and Wales only provisions) and of motions relating to proceedings on bills committed to a public bill committee, may be received by the Public Bill Office,[NEWLINE]between eleven o'clock and three o'clock.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
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articleid: 0041A
current_num: 41A
root_num: 265
text:
Except as provided in paragraph (2), Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall not apply if, after the time for the interruption of business, the opinion of the Speaker as to the decision on a question is challenged in respect of any question.[NEWLINE]Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall apply (and this order shall not apply) to questions-[NEWLINE](a) on motions or amendments in the course of proceedings on bills or allocating time to or programming such proceedings;[NEWLINE](b) on motions which may be made without notice;[NEWLINE](c) on motions to be disposed of immediately following the disposal of amendments proposed thereto, and on such amendments;[NEWLINE](d) on motions made under-[NEWLINE](i) paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business);[NEWLINE](ii) paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 51 (Ways and means motions);[NEWLINE](iii) sub-paragraph (1)(a) of Standing Order No. 52 (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills);[NEWLINE](iv) paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 54 (Consideration of estimates); and[NEWLINE](v) paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 55 (Questions on voting of estimates, etc.); and[NEWLINE](e) on motions made under paragraph (3) below or to which an order made under that paragraph applies.[NEWLINE]After the moment of interruption and the conclusion of proceedings under any other Standing Order which fall to be taken immediately after it, a Minister of the Crown may make a motion to the effect that this order shall not apply to questions on any specified motions; such motion may be proceeded with, though opposed, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If the opinion of the Speaker is challenged under paragraph (1) of this order, he shall defer the division until half-past eleven o'clock on the next Wednesday on which the House shall sit.[NEWLINE]On any Wednesday to which a division has been deferred under paragraph (4) above-[NEWLINE](a) Members may record their votes on the question under arrangements made by the Speaker;[NEWLINE](b) votes may be recorded for two and a half hours after half-past eleven o'clock, no account being taken of any period during which the House or committee proceeds to a division; and[NEWLINE](c) the Speaker, or the chair, shall announce the result of the deferred division as soon as may be after the expiry of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 00510
current_num: 51
root_num: 198
text:
A ways and means motion may be made in the House without notice on any day as soon as an address has been agreed to in answer to Her Majesty's speech.[NEWLINE]A Minister of the Crown may without notice make a motion for giving provisional statutory effect to any proposals in pursuance of section 5 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968; and the question on such a motion shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]When the question has been decided on the first of several motions upon which a bill is to be brought in for imposing, renewing, varying or repealing any charge upon the people, the question on each such further motion shall be put forthwith or, in the case of a motion to which Standing Order No. 83U (Certification of motions upon which a Finance Bill is to be brought in which would authorise provision relating exclusively to England, to England and Wales or to England, Wales and Northern Ireland) applies, forthwith upon the announcement of the Speaker's decision with respect to the motion under that standing order; and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.


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versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 00540
current_num: 54
root_num: 110
text:
Three days, other than Fridays, shall be allotted in each session for the consideration of estimates set down under the provisions of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee); and not more than one day so allotted may be taken in the form of two half days, not being Fridays.[NEWLINE]On any such day-[NEWLINE](a) consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereto shall stand as first business; and[NEWLINE](b) other business may be taken before the moment of interruption only if the consideration of estimates has been concluded.[NEWLINE]Provided that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply on any day on which time has been allocated pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) of Standing Order No. 24 (Emergency debates).[NEWLINE]On any such half day-[NEWLINE](a) proceedings on consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereto, standing as first business, shall be interrupted at seven o'clock on Monday, four o'clock on Tuesday or Wednesday or two o'clock on Thursday; or[NEWLINE](b) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of this order, consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereto may be set down for consideration at the hour specified in sub-paragraph (a) above and shall be entered upon at that time:[NEWLINE]Provided that on days on which time has been allocated pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) of Standing Order No. 24 (Emergency debates) or the Chairman of Way and Means has set down opposed private business under paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business), proceedings under this sub-paragraph shall not be entered upon until the business in question has been disposed of and may then be proceeded with for three hours, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House).[NEWLINE]On any day or half day allotted under this order, questions necessary to dispose of proceedings (other than a dilatory motion) on the estimates on which debate has been concluded shall be deferred until the day and hour prescribed under paragraph (6) of this order.[NEWLINE]Any estimates on which questions have been deferred to another day in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (4) and (6) of this order, together with any questions so deferred, and all other estimates appointed for consideration on any previous day or half day allotted under this order shall be set down for consideration on the day to which the questions have been deferred.[NEWLINE]On the day to which the provisions of paragraph (2) or (3) of Standing Order No. 55 (Questions on voting of estimates, etc.) apply which falls after or on any day or half-day allotted under this order, the Speaker shall, at the time prescribed in paragraph (1) of that order, put, successively, any questions deferred under paragraph (4) of this order on any previous day or half day allotted under this order, any questions deferred under paragraph (4) of this order on the day and any questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on all other estimates appointed for consideration on any day or half day allotted under this order.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 00630
current_num: 63
root_num: 115
text:
When a public bill (other than a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, or a tax law rewrite bill, or a bill for confirming a provisional order) has been read a second time, it shall stand committed to a public bill committee unless the House otherwise orders.[NEWLINE]A motion-[NEWLINE](a) to commit a bill to a committee of the whole House or to a select committee, or a motion that it is expedient that a bill be committed to a joint committee of Lords and Commons; or[NEWLINE](b) to give a public bill committee to which a bill has been committed under this order power to send for persons, papers and records,[NEWLINE]may be made by any Member and if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time shall not require notice, and, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]A motion to commit a bill to a public bill committee in respect of some of its provisions and to a committee of the whole House in respect of other provisions may be made by the Member in charge of the bill and, if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time, shall not require notice, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. If such a motion is opposed, the Speaker after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes the motion shall, without permitting any further debate, put the question thereon.[NEWLINE]If the question on a motion made under paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of this order is negatived, the Speaker shall forthwith declare that the bill stands committed to a public bill committee.[NEWLINE]In the case of a bill certified by the Speaker under Standing Order No. 83J (Certification of bills etc. as relating exclusively to England or England and Wales and being within devolved legislative competence) as relating exclusively to England and being within devolved legislative competence-[NEWLINE](a) committal under this order is subject to Standing Order No. 83K (Committal and recommittal of certified England only bills), and[NEWLINE](b) committal under this order to a public bill committee is accordingly to a public bill committee to which Standing Order No. 86(2)(iv) (Nomination of general committees) applies.[NEWLINE]Nothing in this order enables a bill to be committed to any legislative grand committee other than to the Legislative Grand Committee (England) in accordance with Standing Order No. 83K (Committal and recommittal of certified England only bills).


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articleid: 0080A
current_num: 80A
root_num: 266
text:
Subject to the following provisions of this order, a Minister of the Crown may give notice of a motion (a 'carry-over motion') that proceedings on a public bill not completed before the end of the Session shall be resumed in the next Session of Parliament; and the Speaker shall put any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on such a motion (other than a motion relating to a bill brought in upon a ways and means resolution)-[NEWLINE](a) forthwith if the motion is made on the day the bill is read a second time; or[NEWLINE](b) not more than one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the motion if the motion is made at any other time.[NEWLINE]A carry-over motion may be proceeded with, though opposed, after the moment of interruption.[NEWLINE]A carry-over motion shall not be made in respect of more than one bill.[NEWLINE]A carry-over motion shall not be made in respect of a bill carried over from a previous Session of Parliament.[NEWLINE]A carry-over motion may be made only in respect of a bill presented by a Minister of the Crown.[NEWLINE]The provisions of this order shall not apply to a carry-over motion made in respect of a bill brought from the Lords.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (8) to (11) of this order shall apply to any bill (other than a bill brought in upon a ways and means resolution) ordered to be carried over to the next Session of Parliament in pursuance of a carry-over motion.[NEWLINE]If proceedings in committee on the bill are begun but not completed before the end of the first Session, the chair shall report the bill to the House as so far amended and the bill and any evidence received by the committee shall be ordered to lie upon the Table.[NEWLINE]In any other case, proceedings on the bill shall be suspended at the conclusion of the Session in which the bill was first introduced.[NEWLINE]If a bill is presented in the next Session in the same terms as the bill reported to the House under paragraph (8) or as it stood when proceedings were suspended under paragraph (9), the bill shall be read the first and second time without question put, shall be ordered to be printed, and-[NEWLINE](a) in the case of a bill reported from a public bill committee under paragraph (8), shall stand committed to a public bill committee in respect of those clauses and schedules not ordered to stand part of the bill in the first Session;[NEWLINE](b) in the case of a bill reported from a committee of the whole House under paragraph (8), shall stand committed to a committee of the whole House in respect of those clauses and schedules not ordered to stand part of the bill in the first Session;[NEWLINE](c) in the case of a bill committed to a public bill committee but on which proceedings on the bill were not begun, shall again stand committed to a public bill committee;[NEWLINE](d) otherwise shall be set down as an order of the day for (as the case may be) committee, consideration, further consideration or third reading.[NEWLINE]Notices of amendments, new clauses and new schedules given in respect of parts of a bill not disposed of in the first Session shall be reprinted as notices in respect of the bill as presented and proceeded with under paragraph (10).[NEWLINE]A programme order relating to a bill which is carried over to the next Session of Parliament shall continue to apply in the next Session.[NEWLINE]Proceedings on a bill ordered to be carried over to the next Session of Parliament shall lapse on the expiry of the period of twelve months from the date of its first reading in this House and the bill shall be laid aside unless the House shall order, in pursuance of a motion under paragraph (14), that proceedings on the bill be extended for a specified period.[NEWLINE]A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown to extend for a specified period proceedings on a bill which would otherwise lapse under paragraph (13), and any such motion-[NEWLINE](a) may contain provisions amending or supplementing a programme order in respect of the bill;[NEWLINE](b) may be proceeded with, though opposed, after the moment of interruption;[NEWLINE]and the Speaker shall put any question necessary to dispose of proceedings on any such motion not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of those proceedings.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 0083I
current_num: 83I
root_num: 275
text:
The provisions of this order apply to proceedings in the House or in committee of the whole House or in legislative grand committee on a bill which is subject to a programme order.[NEWLINE]Paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business) applies to the proceedings for any period after the moment of interruption allocated to them in accordance with the programme order.[NEWLINE]The proceedings may not be interrupted under any Standing Order relating to the sittings of the House.[NEWLINE]If, on a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day, a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 (Emergency debates) would, apart from this order, stand over to seven o'clock, four o'clock or three o'clock-[NEWLINE](a) that motion stands over until the conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion at or before that time; and[NEWLINE](b) the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion after that time is postponed for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.[NEWLINE]If a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day is one to which a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 stands over from an earlier day, the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion on that day is postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.[NEWLINE]No dilatory motion may be made in relation to the proceedings except by a Minister of the Crown; and the question on any such motion is to be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If at any sitting the House is adjourned, or the sitting is suspended, before the expiry of the period at the end of which proceedings are to be brought to a conclusion under a programme order, no notice is required of a motion made at the next sitting by a Minister of the Crown for varying or supplementing the provisions of the programme order.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 0083N
current_num: 83N
root_num: 305
text:
Where a legislative grand committee decides on a Consent Motion under Standing Order No. 83M to withhold consent to a bill or any clause or schedule of a bill or any amendment-[NEWLINE](a) the bill shall be set down for reconsideration unless a Minister of the Crown moves a motion for the bill to be reconsidered (and any such motion may be made without notice, the question on any such motion shall be put forthwith and, if the motion is passed, the House shall proceed forthwith to reconsideration), and[NEWLINE](b) any order for the third reading of the bill shall be discharged.[NEWLINE]Reconsideration of the bill shall be for the sole purpose of considering amendments to the bill to resolve matters in dispute as a result of the withholding of consent.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (2) and (4) to (8) of Standing Order No. 83L, and Standing Order No. 83M, shall apply following reconsideration of a bill in relation to the bill so far as reconsidered as they apply in relation to a bill; but as if-[NEWLINE](a) in Standing Order No. 83L(4)-[NEWLINE](i) the reference to any amendment since second reading were a reference to any amendment made on reconsideration, and[NEWLINE](ii) sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) were omitted, and[NEWLINE](b) in the case of any matter, there were a deemed certification in relation to the area or areas to which any relevant previous certification under Standing Order No. 83L(2) or (4) related if there would not otherwise be a certification in relation to that area or areas.[NEWLINE]If, following reconsideration of a bill and the steps taken by virtue of paragraph (3), a legislative grand committee withholds consent to the whole bill (whether or not amended on reconsideration), the bill may not be given a third reading and shall not pass.[NEWLINE]Paragraph (6) applies if, following reconsideration of a bill and the steps taken by virtue of paragraph (3), a legislative grand committee withholds consent to-[NEWLINE](a) any clause or schedule of the bill (whether or not amended on reconsideration), or[NEWLINE](b) any amendment to the bill,[NEWLINE]but does not withhold consent to the whole bill.[NEWLINE]The bill shall be amended so as to remove any provisions of the bill which are not agreed by the House and any relevant legislative grand committee; and it is the bill as so amended which proceeds to its next stage.[NEWLINE]A Minister of the Crown may move a motion for the bill as so amended to be considered again ("consequential consideration"); and such a motion made be made without notice and the question on any such motion shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If the motion is passed, the House shall proceed forthwith to consequential consideration of the bill as so amended; and any order for the third reading of the bill shall be discharged.[NEWLINE]Consequential consideration of the bill as so amended shall be for the sole purpose of considering minor or technical amendments in consequence of the removal of provisions under paragraph (6).[NEWLINE]Proceedings on reconsideration or consequential consideration, or a motion for reconsideration or consequential consideration, may be proceeded with, though opposed, after the moment of interruption.[NEWLINE]References in the Standing Orders of this House to consideration of a bill on report shall, so far as relevant and subject to paragraph (12), include reconsideration or consequential consideration of a bill under this order.[NEWLINE]In its application by virtue of paragraph (11), Standing Order No. 72 (Consideration of bill as amended in committee of whole House) has effect as if the words ", as amended in a committee of the whole House," were omitted.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-07-04
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Communities and Local Government | Department for Communities and Local Government | 11[NEWLINE]3 Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]5 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]6 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]7 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]8 Health | Department of Health | 11[NEWLINE]9 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]11 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]12 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Women and Equalities | Government Equalities Office | 11[NEWLINE]20 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-09-12
articleid: 01190
current_num: 119
root_num: 195
text:
There shall be three general committees, called European Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.[NEWLINE]If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]Each European Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of any European Union document which stands referred to it, and the Committee of Selection may nominate the same membership in respect of several documents.[NEWLINE]In nominating the members of a European Committee, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and where practicable it shall nominate at least two members of the European Scrutiny Committee and at least two members of the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) whose responsibilities most closely relate to the subject matter of the document or documents.[NEWLINE]The quorum of a European Committee shall be three, excluding the chair.[NEWLINE]Any Member, though not nominated to a European Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below.[NEWLINE]The European Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and, subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly-[NEWLINE]European Committees | Principal subject matter[NEWLINE] | Matters within the responsibilities of the following Departments-[NEWLINE]A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Communities and Local Government; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.[NEWLINE]B | HM Treasury (including HM Revenue & Customs); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Ministry of Justice (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Committee A); International Trade; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.[NEWLINE]C | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Children, Schools and Families; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Health.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit a member of the European Scrutiny Committee appointed to the committee under paragraph (4) above to make a brief statement of no more than five minutes, at the beginning of the sitting, explaining that committee's decision to refer the document or documents to a European Committee.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chair may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.[NEWLINE]Following the conclusion of the proceedings under the previous paragraph, the motion referred to therein may be made, to which amendments may be moved; and, if proceedings thereon have not been previously concluded, the chair shall interrupt the consideration of such motion and amendments when the committee shall have sat for a period of two and a half hours, and shall then put forthwith successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the chair; and[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended).[NEWLINE]The chair shall thereupon report to the House any resolution to which the committee has come, or that it has come to no resolution, without any further question being put.[NEWLINE]If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (10) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved;[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended);[NEWLINE]and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]With the modifications provided in this Order, the following Standing Orders shall apply to European Committees- No. 85 (Chair of general committees); No. 88 (Meetings of general committees); and No. 89 (Procedure in general committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2017-09-12
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Communities and Local Government | Department for Communities and Local Government | 11[NEWLINE]3 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]5 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]6 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]7 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]8 Health | Department of Health | 11[NEWLINE]9 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]11 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]12 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Women and Equalities | Government Equalities Office | 11[NEWLINE]20 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-02-20
articleid: 01190
current_num: 119
root_num: 195
text:
There shall be three general committees, called European Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.[NEWLINE]If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]Each European Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of any European Union document which stands referred to it, and the Committee of Selection may nominate the same membership in respect of several documents.[NEWLINE]In nominating the members of a European Committee, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and where practicable it shall nominate at least two members of the European Scrutiny Committee and at least two members of the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) whose responsibilities most closely relate to the subject matter of the document or documents.[NEWLINE]The quorum of a European Committee shall be three, excluding the chair.[NEWLINE]Any Member, though not nominated to a European Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below.[NEWLINE]The European Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and, subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly-[NEWLINE]European Committees | Principal subject matter[NEWLINE] | Matters within the responsibilities of the following Departments-[NEWLINE]A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Housing, Communities and Local Government; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.[NEWLINE]B | HM Treasury (including HM Revenue & Customs); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Ministry of Justice (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Committee A); International Trade; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.[NEWLINE]C | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Children, Schools and Families; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Health and Social Care.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit a member of the European Scrutiny Committee appointed to the committee under paragraph (4) above to make a brief statement of no more than five minutes, at the beginning of the sitting, explaining that committee's decision to refer the document or documents to a European Committee.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chair may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.[NEWLINE]Following the conclusion of the proceedings under the previous paragraph, the motion referred to therein may be made, to which amendments may be moved; and, if proceedings thereon have not been previously concluded, the chair shall interrupt the consideration of such motion and amendments when the committee shall have sat for a period of two and a half hours, and shall then put forthwith successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the chair; and[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended).[NEWLINE]The chair shall thereupon report to the House any resolution to which the committee has come, or that it has come to no resolution, without any further question being put.[NEWLINE]If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (10) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved;[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended);[NEWLINE]and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]With the modifications provided in this Order, the following Standing Orders shall apply to European Committees- No. 85 (Chair of general committees); No. 88 (Meetings of general committees); and No. 89 (Procedure in general committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-02-20
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Housing, Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-02-20
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Housing, Communities and Local Government | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 11[NEWLINE]3 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]5 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]6 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]7 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]8 Health and Social Care | Department of Health and Social Care | 11[NEWLINE]9 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]11 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]12 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Women and Equalities | Government Equalities Office | 11[NEWLINE]20 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-02-20
articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Housing, Communities and Local Government, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 00820
current_num: 82
root_num: 134
text:
There shall be a committee, to be called the Business Committee, consisting of the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall be chair of the committee, and not more than eight other Members to be nominated by the Speaker, in respect of each bill to which this order applies. The quorum of the committee shall be four. The committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall, in the case of any bill in respect of which an order has been made by the House, allotting a specified number of days or portions of days to the consideration of the bill in committee of the whole House or on report, divide the bill into such parts as it may see fit and allot to each part so many days or portions of a day so allotted as it may consider appropriate; and[NEWLINE](b) shall report its resolution (or resolutions) to the House, and on a motion being made for the consideration of such report the question thereon shall be put forthwith and on consideration of the said report the question 'That this House agrees with the committee in its resolution (or resolutions)' shall be put forthwith and, if that question be agreed to, any such resolution shall have effect as if it were an order of the House.[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this sub-paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 01190
current_num: 119
root_num: 195
text:
There shall be three general committees, called European Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.[NEWLINE]If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]Each European Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of any European Union document which stands referred to it, and the Committee of Selection may nominate the same membership in respect of several documents.[NEWLINE]In nominating the members of a European Committee, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and where practicable it shall nominate at least two members of the European Scrutiny Committee and at least two members of the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) whose responsibilities most closely relate to the subject matter of the document or documents.[NEWLINE]The quorum of a European Committee shall be three, excluding the chair.[NEWLINE]Any Member, though not nominated to a European Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below.[NEWLINE]The European Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and, subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly-[NEWLINE]European Committees | Principal subject matter[NEWLINE] | Matters within the responsibilities of the following Departments-[NEWLINE]A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Housing, Communities and Local Government; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.[NEWLINE]B | HM Treasury (including HM Revenue & Customs); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Ministry of Justice (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Committee A); International Trade; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.[NEWLINE]C | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Education; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Health and Social Care.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit a member of the European Scrutiny Committee appointed to the committee under paragraph (4) above to make a brief statement of no more than five minutes, at the beginning of the sitting, explaining that committee's decision to refer the document or documents to a European Committee.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chair may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.[NEWLINE]Following the conclusion of the proceedings under the previous paragraph, the motion referred to therein may be made, to which amendments may be moved; and, if proceedings thereon have not been previously concluded, the chair shall interrupt the consideration of such motion and amendments when the committee shall have sat for a period of two and a half hours, and shall then put forthwith successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the chair; and[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended).[NEWLINE]The chair shall thereupon report to the House any resolution to which the committee has come, or that it has come to no resolution, without any further question being put.[NEWLINE]If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (10) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved;[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended);[NEWLINE]and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]With the modifications provided in this Order, the following Standing Orders shall apply to European Committees- No. 85 (Chair of general committees); No. 88 (Meetings of general committees); and No. 89 (Procedure in general committees).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Housing, Communities and Local Government, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, but lay members may not move any motion or any amendment to any motion or draft report, and may not vote save as specified in paragraph (5A) of this Order.[NEWLINE]It shall be an instruction to the Committee that before dividing on any motion, the Committee should hold an indicative vote of lay and elected members to ascertain the views on the motion of the Committee as a whole and of each member present; that such a vote should be conducted as if it were a formal division; that, as in a formal division, the Chair should not take part in the initial vote but should have a casting vote in the event of a tie; that after holding such a vote the results should be recorded in the Committees formal minutes, without question put; and that after holding such a vote the Committee may or may not proceed to a formal division of elected Members[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 01500
current_num: 150
root_num: 236
text:
There shall be an Officer of this House, called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who shall be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]The principal duties of the Commissioner shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to maintain the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House, and to make such arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of those registers as are approved by the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](b) to provide advice confidentially to Members and other persons or bodies subject to registration on matters relating to the registration of individual interests;[NEWLINE](c) to advise the Committee on Standards, its sub-committees and individual Members on the interpretation of any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and on questions of propriety;[NEWLINE](d) to monitor the operation of such code and registers, and to make recommendations thereon to the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](e) to investigate, if he thinks fit, specific matters which have come to his attention relating to the conduct of Members and to report to the Committee on Standards or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof, unless the provisions of paragraph (4) apply; and[NEWLINE](f) to consider cases arising from the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme.[NEWLINE]In determining whether to investigate a specific matter relating to the conduct of a Member the Commissioner shall have regard to whether in his view there is sufficient evidence that the Code of Conduct or the rules relating to registration or declaration of interests may have been breached to justify taking the matter further.[NEWLINE]No report shall be made by the Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent, and the Member concerned has taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required within any procedure approved by the Committee for this purpose;[NEWLINE](b) in any case involving parliamentary allowances, or the use of facilities or services, if the Commissioner has with the agreement of the Member concerned referred the matter to the relevant Officer of the House for the purpose of securing appropriate financial reimbursement, and the Member has made such reimbursement within such period of time as the Commissioner considers reasonable; and[NEWLINE](c) in any case arising from the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme where the Commissioner has proposed remedial action within any procedure approved by the Committee with which the Member concerned has complied or, if the remedy is prospective, undertaken to comply.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may at any time in the course of investigating a complaint, and if so requested by the Committee on Standards shall, appoint an Investigatory Panel to assist him in establishing the facts relevant to the investigation.[NEWLINE]An Investigatory Panel shall-[NEWLINE](a) consist of the Commissioner, who shall be Chair of the Panel, and two assessors, one of whom shall be a legally qualified person appointed by the Commissioner and the other shall be a Member, who shall not be a member of the Committee on Standards, appointed by the Speaker; and[NEWLINE](b) meet in private.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) shall determine the procedures of the Panel, subject to the provisions of this order; and[NEWLINE](b) may appoint counsel for the purpose of assisting the Panel.[NEWLINE]Any report that the Commissioner may have made to the Committee on Standards in relation to the complaint before the appointment of the Panel shall be made available to the Panel by the Committee.[NEWLINE]Any Member who is the subject of the complaint under investigation shall, if he so requests, be heard by the Panel; may call witnesses; and may examine other witnesses.[NEWLINE]When the Panel has completed its proceedings-[NEWLINE](a) the Commissioner shall report as in paragraph (2)(e);[NEWLINE](b) the legal assessor shall report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have been consistent with the principles of natural justice; and[NEWLINE](c) the Member assessor may report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have had regard to the customs and practice of the House and its Members.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall report each year to the House on the exercise by him of his functions.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have leave to publish from time to time-[NEWLINE](a) information and papers relating to-[NEWLINE](i) matters resolved in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order; and[NEWLINE](ii) complaints not upheld; and[NEWLINE](b) statistical information about complaints received.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may be dismissed only following a resolution of the House, moved for by a Member of the House of Commons Commission, after the Committee on Standards has reported to the House that it is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold his office or unable to carry out his functions; and any such report shall include a statement of the Committee's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]3 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]5 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]6 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]7 Health and Social Care | Department of Health and Social Care | 11[NEWLINE]8 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]9 Housing, Communities and Local Government | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]11 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]12 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Women and Equalities | Government Equalities Office | 11[NEWLINE]20 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-07-19
articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Housing, Communities and Local Government, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2018-11-27
articleid: 0137A
current_num: 137A
root_num: 259
text:
Any select committee or sub-committee with power to send for persons, papers and records shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to communicate its evidence to any other select committee or sub-committee of either House of Parliament or to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly or to any of their committees; provided that evidence from the National Audit Office shall first have been agreed between that Office and the government department or departments concerned;[NEWLINE](b) to meet concurrently with any committee or sub-committee of either House of Parliament for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence;[NEWLINE](ba) to agree with any other select committee or sub-committee of this House on the exercise of any power which each of those committees, or sub-committees may separately have to appoint specialist advisers, to authorise witnesses to publish written evidence submitted by them, or to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](c) to meet concurrently with any other select committee of this House for the purpose of considering a draft report;[NEWLINE](d) to agree in the choice of a chair for any concurrent meetings; and[NEWLINE](e) to invite members of any other committee to which this order applies to attend any meeting and, at the discretion of the Chair, ask questions of witnesses or otherwise participate in its proceedings; but no member of another committee so invited may move any motion or amendment, vote or count towards the quorum.[NEWLINE]Where two or more select committees have agreed reports to the House in identical terms, those reports may be published as a joint report.[NEWLINE]The Welsh Affairs Committee may invite members of any specified committee of the National Assembly for Wales to attend and participate in its proceedings (but not to vote).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2019-01-07
articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, may move motions and amendments to motions or draft reports, and may vote.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2019-11-05
articleid: 00110
current_num: 11
root_num: 17
text:
Subject to Standing Order No. 12 (House not to sit on certain Fridays), the House shall meet on Fridays at half-past nine o'clock, and will first proceed with private business and motions for unopposed returns. [NEWLINE]Standing Orders No. 9 (Sittings of the House) and No. 15 (Exempted business) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with-[NEWLINE](a) the omission of paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 9; and[NEWLINE](b) the insertion of references to half-past two o'clock as the moment of interruption; and[NEWLINE](c) the substitution of reference to half-past three o'clock for reference to eleven o'clock in relation to proceedings on nomination of members of departmental select committees.[NEWLINE]In the application of Standing Order No. 17 (Delegated legislation (negative procedure)) to the sittings on Fridays there shall be substituted references to four o'clock for references to half-past eleven o'clock.[NEWLINE]At eleven o'clock the Speaker may interrupt the proceedings in order to permit questions to be asked which are in his opinion of an urgent character and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business, statements to be made by Ministers, or personal explanations to be made by Members.[NEWLINE]If the House is in committee at eleven o'clock, on an occasion when the Speaker's intention to permit such questions, statements or explanations has been made known, the occupant of the chair shall leave the chair without putting any question, and report that the committee have made progress and ask leave to sit again.[NEWLINE]The House, when it meets on Friday, shall, at its rising, stand adjourned until the following Monday without any question being put.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 0041A
current_num: 41A
root_num: 265
text:
Except as provided in paragraph (2), Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall not apply if, after the time for the interruption of business, the opinion of the Speaker as to the decision on a question is challenged in respect of any question.[NEWLINE]Standing Order No. 38 (Procedure on divisions) shall apply (and this order shall not apply) to questions-[NEWLINE](a) on motions or amendments in the course of proceedings on bills or allocating time to or programming such proceedings;[NEWLINE](b) on motions which may be made without notice;[NEWLINE](c) on motions to be disposed of immediately following the disposal of amendments proposed thereto, and on such amendments;[NEWLINE](d) on motions made under-[NEWLINE](i) paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business);[NEWLINE](ii) paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 51 (Ways and means motions);[NEWLINE](iii) sub-paragraph (1)(a) of Standing Order No. 52 (Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with bills);[NEWLINE](iv) paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 54 (Consideration of estimates); and[NEWLINE](v) paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 55 (Questions on voting of estimates, etc.);[NEWLINE](vi) paragraph 1 of Standing Order No. 150D (Motions consequent on the ICGS); and[NEWLINE](e) on motions made under paragraph (3) below or to which an order made under that paragraph applies.[NEWLINE]After the moment of interruption and the conclusion of proceedings under any other Standing Order which fall to be taken immediately after it, a Minister of the Crown may make a motion to the effect that this order shall not apply to questions on any specified motions; such motion may be proceeded with, though opposed, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If the opinion of the Speaker is challenged under paragraph (1) of this order, he shall defer the division until half-past eleven o'clock on the next Wednesday on which the House shall sit.[NEWLINE]On any Wednesday to which a division has been deferred under paragraph (4) above-[NEWLINE](a) Members may record their votes on the question under arrangements made by the Speaker;[NEWLINE](b) votes may be recorded for two and a half hours after half-past eleven o'clock, no account being taken of any period during which the House or committee proceeds to a division; and[NEWLINE](c) the Speaker, or the chair, shall announce the result of the deferred division as soon as may be after the expiry of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards except in relation to the conduct of individual cases under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, may move motions and amendments to motions or draft reports, and may vote.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 01500
current_num: 150
root_num: 236
text:
There shall be an Officer of this House, called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who shall be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]The principal duties of the Commissioner shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to maintain the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House, and to make such arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of those registers as are approved by the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](b) to provide advice confidentially to Members and other persons or bodies subject to registration on matters relating to the registration of individual interests;[NEWLINE](c) to advise the Committee on Standards, its sub-committees and individual Members on the interpretation of any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and on questions of propriety;[NEWLINE](d) to monitor the operation of such code and registers, and to make recommendations thereon to the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](e) to investigate, if he thinks fit, specific matters which have come to his attention relating to the conduct of Members and to report to the Committee on Standards or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof, unless the provisions of paragraph (4) apply; and[NEWLINE](f) to oversee investigations and make findings in cases against Members under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to refer such case to the Independent Panel of Experts where a sanction beyond her powers is contemplated; and to assist the Panel and its sub-panels in its work.[NEWLINE]In determining whether to investigate a specific matter relating to the conduct of a Member the Commissioner shall have regard to whether in his view there is sufficient evidence that the Code of Conduct or the rules relating to registration or declaration of interests may have been breached to justify taking the matter further.[NEWLINE]No report shall be made by the Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent, and the Member concerned has taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required within any procedure approved by the Committee for this purpose;[NEWLINE](b) in any case involving parliamentary allowances, or the use of facilities or services, if the Commissioner has with the agreement of the Member concerned referred the matter to the relevant Officer of the House for the purpose of securing appropriate financial reimbursement, and the Member has made such reimbursement within such period of time as the Commissioner considers reasonable.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may at any time in the course of investigating a complaint, and if so requested by the Committee on Standards shall, appoint an Investigatory Panel to assist him in establishing the facts relevant to the investigation.[NEWLINE]An Investigatory Panel shall-[NEWLINE](a) consist of the Commissioner, who shall be Chair of the Panel, and two assessors, one of whom shall be a legally qualified person appointed by the Commissioner and the other shall be a Member, who shall not be a member of the Committee on Standards, appointed by the Speaker; and[NEWLINE](b) meet in private.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) shall determine the procedures of the Panel, subject to the provisions of this order; and[NEWLINE](b) may appoint counsel for the purpose of assisting the Panel.[NEWLINE]Any report that the Commissioner may have made to the Committee on Standards in relation to the complaint before the appointment of the Panel shall be made available to the Panel by the Committee.[NEWLINE]Any Member who is the subject of the complaint under investigation shall, if he so requests, be heard by the Panel; may call witnesses; and may examine other witnesses.[NEWLINE]When the Panel has completed its proceedings-[NEWLINE](a) the Commissioner shall report as in paragraph (2)(e);[NEWLINE](b) the legal assessor shall report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have been consistent with the principles of natural justice; and[NEWLINE](c) the Member assessor may report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have had regard to the customs and practice of the House and its Members.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall report each year to the House on the exercise by him of his functions.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have leave to publish from time to time-[NEWLINE](a) information and papers relating to-[NEWLINE](i) matters resolved in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order; and[NEWLINE](ii) complaints not upheld; and[NEWLINE](b) statistical information about complaints received.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may be dismissed only following a resolution of the House, moved for by a Member of the House of Commons Commission, after the Committee on Standards has reported to the House that it is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold his office or unable to carry out his functions; and any such report shall include a statement of the Committee's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 0150A
current_num: 150A
root_num: 316
text:
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 No. 150C (Appointment of Independent Expert Panel Members).[NEWLINE]The Panel shall consist of eight members, of whom a quorum shall be four.[NEWLINE]The functions of the Panel shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to determine the appropriate sanction in ICGS cases referred to it by the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards;[NEWLINE](b) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in respect of ICGS cases involving Members of this House;[NEWLINE](c) to hear appeals against a sanction imposed under paragraph (a);[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]The Panel may elect its own Chair.[NEWLINE]The responsibilities of the Chair shall include-[NEWLINE](a) ensuring that the Panel and its sub-panels comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions and standing orders of this House;[NEWLINE](b) the appointment of sub-panels to consider individual cases;[NEWLINE](c) co-ordinating the work of the Panel with that of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](f) establishing the procedure for an appeal against the findings or determination of a sub-panel in cases referred under (3)(a) above;[NEWLINE](g) reporting to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards any case of non-compliance under sub-paragraph (e) above by a Member of this House;[NEWLINE](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.[NEWLINE]The Panel and any sub-panel shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 0150B
current_num: 150B
root_num: 317
text:
Cases referred to the Independent Expert Panel under Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) shall be considered by a sub-panel appointed under paragraph (5)(b) of that order.[NEWLINE]A sub-panel shall consist of three members of the Panel and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Sub-panels shall sit in private.[NEWLINE]A sub-panel may request the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to conduct further investigations in respect of a case referred to it and may specify the matters to be covered in that investigation.[NEWLINE]In respect of each case referred to it, a sub-panel shall make a report of its findings to the Chair of the Panel.[NEWLINE]Where an appeal is made against a finding or determination of a sanction by a sub-panel, a new sub-panel shall be established to hear that appeal. No member shall be eligible to hear an appeal against the decision of a sub-panel on which they have served.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 0150C
current_num: 150C
root_num: 318
text:
Members of the Independent Expert Panel shall be appointed by a resolution of the House on a motion made under the provisions of this order and shall remain as members in accordance with the provisions of this order.[NEWLINE]The period of appointment of each member shall be specified in the resolution of the House for appointment and shall not exceed six years. The appointment of a member is not terminated by any dissolution of Parliament.[NEWLINE]No person who has once been a member may be appointed for a further term.[NEWLINE]No person may be appointed as a member if that person is or has been a Member of this House or a Member of the House of Lords; and any person so appointed shall cease to be a member upon becoming a Member of this House or of the House of Lords.[NEWLINE]No person may be appointed as a member unless that person has been selected on the basis of a fair and open competition.[NEWLINE]A person appointed as a member may resign as a member by giving notice to the House of Commons Commission.[NEWLINE]A person appointed as a member shall be dismissed from that position only following a resolution of the House, after the House of Commons Commission has reported that it is satisfied that the person should cease to be a member; and any such report shall include a statement of the Commission's reasons for its conclusion.[NEWLINE]No motion may be made under the provisions of this order unless-[NEWLINE](a) notice of the motion has been given at least two sitting days previously, and[NEWLINE](b) the motion is made on behalf of the House of Commons Commission by a Member of the Commission.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on motions made under the provisions of this order not later than one hour after the commencement of those proceedings.[NEWLINE]Business to which this order applies may be proceeded with at any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-06-23
articleid: 0150D
current_num: 150D
root_num: 319
text:
A motion may be moved by a member of the House of Commons Commission to implement a sanction in respect of an individual ICGS case determined by a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion under paragraph (1) of this order forthwith.[NEWLINE]Business under this order may be proceeded with until any hour, though opposed.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2020-09-23
articleid: 0039A
current_num: 39A
root_num: 320
text:
A Member eligible under paragraph (2) may arrange for their vote to be cast by one other Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote) under a scheme drawn up by the Speaker in accordance with this order and published by him.[NEWLINE]A Member is eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House for childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, subject to the conditions set out in the scheme published under paragraph (1) of this order.[NEWLINE]A proxy vote may be cast-[NEWLINE](a) in any division, including a deferred division, in the House, in Committee of the whole House, or in any legislative grand committee, save as provided in paragraph (4) below; and[NEWLINE](b) 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), Standing Order No. 122B (Election of select committee chairs) and Standing Order No. 122D (Election of Chair of Backbench Business Committee).[NEWLINE]No proxy vote shall be reckoned in the numbers participating in a division for the purposes of-[NEWLINE](a) Standing Order No. 41(1) (Quorum), and[NEWLINE](b) Standing Order No. 37 (Majority for closure of for proposal of question).[NEWLINE](a) 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.[NEWLINE](b) The Speaker shall cause that certificate, including the name of the Member nominated as a proxy, to be entered in the Votes and Proceedings no later than the sitting day on which it takes effect.[NEWLINE]A vote cast by a proxy shall be clearly indicated as such in the division lists published under the authority of the House.[NEWLINE]A Member is also eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House in circumstances where there have been complications relating to childbirth; and the Speaker may make appropriate provision for the exercise of a proxy vote in such circumstances in the scheme drawn up under paragraph (1) above.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-04-21
articleid: 01500
current_num: 150
root_num: 236
text:
There shall be an Officer of this House, called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who shall be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]The principal duties of the Commissioner shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to maintain the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House, and to make such arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of those registers as are approved by the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](b) to provide advice confidentially to Members and other persons or bodies subject to registration on matters relating to the registration of individual interests;[NEWLINE](c) to advise the Committee on Standards, its sub-committees and individual Members on the interpretation of any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and on questions of propriety;[NEWLINE](d) to monitor the operation of such code and registers, and to make recommendations thereon to the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](e) to investigate, if he thinks fit, specific matters which have come to his attention relating to the conduct of Members and to report to the Committee on Standards or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof, unless the provisions of paragraph (4) apply; and[NEWLINE](f) to oversee investigations and make findings in cases against Members under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to refer such case to the Independent Panel of Experts where a sanction beyond her powers is contemplated; and to assist the Panel and its sub-panels in its work.[NEWLINE]In determining whether to investigate a specific matter relating to the conduct of a Member the Commissioner shall have regard to whether in his view there is sufficient evidence that the Code of Conduct or the rules relating to registration or declaration of interests may have been breached to justify taking the matter further.[NEWLINE]No report shall be made by the Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent, and the Member concerned has taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required within any procedure approved by the Committee for this purpose;[NEWLINE](b) in any case involving parliamentary allowances, or the use of facilities or services, if the Commissioner has with the agreement of the Member concerned referred the matter to the relevant Officer of the House for the purpose of securing appropriate financial reimbursement, and the Member has made such reimbursement within such period of time as the Commissioner considers reasonable.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have power to-[NEWLINE](a) instigate informal discussions with a Member to indicate concern about the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct; and[NEWLINE](b) require a Member to attend a formal meeting at which the Commissioner may indicate concern about or give words of advice on the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may at any time in the course of investigating a complaint, and if so requested by the Committee on Standards shall, appoint an Investigatory Panel to assist him in establishing the facts relevant to the investigation.[NEWLINE]An Investigatory Panel shall-[NEWLINE](a) consist of the Commissioner, who shall be Chair of the Panel, and two assessors, one of whom shall be a legally qualified person appointed by the Commissioner and the other shall be a Member, who shall not be a member of the Committee on Standards, appointed by the Speaker; and[NEWLINE](b) meet in private.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) shall determine the procedures of the Panel, subject to the provisions of this order; and[NEWLINE](b) may appoint counsel for the purpose of assisting the Panel.[NEWLINE]Any report that the Commissioner may have made to the Committee on Standards in relation to the complaint before the appointment of the Panel shall be made available to the Panel by the Committee.[NEWLINE]Any Member who is the subject of the complaint under investigation shall, if he so requests, be heard by the Panel; may call witnesses; and may examine other witnesses.[NEWLINE]When the Panel has completed its proceedings-[NEWLINE](a) the Commissioner shall report as in paragraph (2)(e);[NEWLINE](b) the legal assessor shall report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have been consistent with the principles of natural justice; and[NEWLINE](c) the Member assessor may report to the Committee on Standards his opinion as to the extent to which its proceedings have had regard to the customs and practice of the House and its Members.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall report each year to the House on the exercise by him of his functions.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have leave to publish from time to time-[NEWLINE](a) information and papers relating to-[NEWLINE](i) matters resolved in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order; and[NEWLINE](ii) complaints not upheld; and[NEWLINE](b) information about complaints received and matters under investigation.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may be dismissed only following a resolution of the House, moved for by a Member of the House of Commons Commission, after the Committee on Standards has reported to the House that it is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold his office or unable to carry out his functions; and any such report shall include a statement of the Committee's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
articleid: 00180
current_num: 18
root_num: 226
text:
If the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the affirmative procedure should be approved, or has recommended under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order should be approved, and a motion is made by a Minister of the Crown to that effect, the question thereon shall-[NEWLINE](a) if the committee's recommendation was agreed without a division, be put forthwith; and[NEWLINE](b) if the committee's recommendation was agreed after a division, be put not later than one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the motion.[NEWLINE]If the committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the affirmative procedure be not approved, or has recommended under paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order be not approved, no motion to approve the draft order shall be made unless the House has previously resolved to disagree with the committee's report; the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the motion for such a resolution shall be put not later than three hours after their commencement; and the question on any motion thereafter made by a Minister of the Crown that the draft order be approved shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If the committee has recommended under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 141 (Scrutiny of regulatory and legislative reform orders etc.) or paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders) that a draft order subject to the negative resolution procedure should not be made (and that the recommendation is not intended to operate section 16(4) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006), that recommendation shall be deemed to constitute notice of a motion under sub-paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees).[NEWLINE]Motions under paragraphs (1) or (2) of this order may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
articleid: 0083P
current_num: 83P
root_num: 307
text:
The Speaker shall-[NEWLINE](a) consider every instrument to which this order applies, and[NEWLINE](b) certify any such instrument which, in the Speaker's opinion-[NEWLINE](i) relates exclusively to England or to England and Wales, and[NEWLINE](ii) is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]An instrument-[NEWLINE](a) relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence;[NEWLINE](b) relates exclusively to England and Wales and is within devolved legislative competence if every provision of it relates exclusively to England and Wales and is within devolved legislative competence.[NEWLINE]Paragraphs (2) to (4), (6) and (7) of Standing Order No. 83J apply for the purposes of this order; and as so applied those paragraphs have effect as if-[NEWLINE](a) references to a bill were to an instrument, and[NEWLINE](b) references to a clause or schedule were to a provision of an instrument.[NEWLINE]In deciding whether to certify an instrument under this order the Speaker may consult two members of the Panel of Chairs who are appointed for this purpose by the Committee of Selection on a session by session basis.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall announce any decision under this order to the House.[NEWLINE]This order applies to any instrument (whether or not in draft) upon which proceedings may be taken in pursuance of an Act of Parliament where the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) meets any of conditions A to C, and[NEWLINE](b) is not a report within paragraph (1)(a) to (c) of Standing Order No. 83R.[NEWLINE]Condition A is that the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) stands referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee pursuant to paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees), or[NEWLINE](b) does not stand so referred because sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph applies to it.[NEWLINE]Condition B is that a member has given notice of a motion of the kind mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 in relation to the instrument and the instrument-[NEWLINE](a) stands referred to a Delegated Legislation Committee, or[NEWLINE](b) has been set down for consideration in the Chamber on a particular day.[NEWLINE]Condition C is that the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee has made a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1) or (2) of Standing Order No. 18 (Consideration of draft legislative reform orders etc.) in relation to the instrument.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
articleid: 0083Q
current_num: 83Q
root_num: 308
text:
This order applies to the following motions-[NEWLINE](a) a motion to approve a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](b) a motion of the kind mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) of Standing Order No. 118 in relation to a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](c) a motion to disagree with a report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that contains a recommendation of the kind mentioned in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 18 in relation to a certified instrument;[NEWLINE](d) an amendment to a motion within sub-paragraph (a) or (b).[NEWLINE]If a division is held on a motion to which this order applies, the motion shall be agreed to only if, of those voting in the division-[NEWLINE](a) a majority of Members, and[NEWLINE](b) a majority of Members representing qualifying constituencies,[NEWLINE]vote in support of the motion.[NEWLINE]In this order-[NEWLINE](a) "a certified instrument" means an instrument which has been certified under Standing Order No. 83P as relating exclusively to England or to England and Wales;[NEWLINE](b) "qualifying constituencies" means constituencies in the part of the United Kingdom to which the instrument has been certified as relating exclusively.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-05-20
articleid: 01410
current_num: 141
root_num: 227
text:
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee shall be the select committee to examine and report on-[NEWLINE](i) every draft order laid before the House under sections 14 or 18 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 ('the Act'), other than one laid under section 18 of the Act as applied by section 7 of the Localism Act 2011 or by section 5E of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004;[NEWLINE](ii) any subordinate provisions order or draft of such an order made or proposed to be made under sections 1 and 4 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (except those not made by a Minister of the Crown);[NEWLINE](iii) any matter arising from its consideration of such orders or draft orders; and[NEWLINE](iv) matters relating to regulatory reform;[NEWLINE]and to carry out its functions under Standing Order No. 142 (Localism Act 2011, etc.: scrutiny of certain orders and draft orders).[NEWLINE]In the case of every draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) above the committee shall consider the Minister's recommendation under section 15(1) of the Act as to the procedure which should apply to it and shall report to the House any recommendation under the Act that a different procedure should apply.[NEWLINE]In its consideration of draft orders under Part 1 of the Act the committee shall include in each case, in addition to such other matters as it deems appropriate, whether provision in the draft order-[NEWLINE](a) appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated legislation;[NEWLINE](b) serves the purpose of removing or reducing a burden, or the overall burdens, resulting directly or indirectly for any person from any legislation (in respect of a draft order under section 1 of the Act);[NEWLINE](c) serves the purpose of securing that regulatory functions are exercised so as to comply with the regulatory principles, as set out in section 2(3) of the Act (in respect of a draft order under section 2 of the Act);[NEWLINE](d) secures a policy objective which could not be satisfactorily secured by non-legislative means;[NEWLINE](e) has an effect which is proportionate to the policy objective;[NEWLINE](f) strikes a fair balance between the public interest and the interests of any person adversely affected by it;[NEWLINE](g) does not remove any necessary protection;[NEWLINE](h) does not prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which that person might reasonably expect to continue to exercise;[NEWLINE](i) is not of constitutional significance;[NEWLINE](j) makes the law more accessible or more easily understood (in the case of provisions restating enactments);[NEWLINE](k) has been the subject of, and takes appropriate account of, adequate consultation;[NEWLINE](l) gives rise to an issue under such criteria for consideration of statutory instruments laid down in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) as are relevant;[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order laid under section 14 of the Act subject to the negative or affirmative procedure under sections 16 or 17 of the Act, the committee shall report its recommendation whether the draft order should be made (in the case of the negative procedure) or approved (in the case of the affirmative procedure), indicating in the case of the latter whether the recommendation was agreed without a division.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order laid under section 14 of the Act subject to the super-affirmative procedure under section 18 of the Act, the committee shall report its recommendation as to whether-[NEWLINE](a) the draft order should be proceeded with unamended under section 18(3) of the Act; or[NEWLINE](b) a revised draft order should be laid under section 18(7) of the Act; or[NEWLINE](c) no statement under section 18(3) or revised draft order under section 18(7) should be laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order that is subject to the super-affirmative procedure and is being proceeded with under section 18(3) or 18(7) of the Act, the committee shall report its recommendation whether the draft order or revised draft order should be approved, indicating in the case of draft orders which it recommends should be approved whether its recommendation was agreed without a division; and in respect of such draft orders or revised draft orders the committee shall consider in each case all such matters set out in paragraph (3) of this order as are relevant and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.[NEWLINE]It shall be an instruction to the committee considering draft orders referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order and being proceeded with under section 18(3) or 18(7) that it report not more than fifteen sitting days (in the case of an order under section 18(3)) or twenty-five sitting days (in the case of an order under section 18(7)) after the relevant statement is laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order, the committee shall report any recommendation under section 16(4) of the Act that the draft order be not made, or under sections 17(3), 18(5) or 18(9) of the Act that no further proceedings be taken in relation to the draft order.[NEWLINE]In its consideration of any subordinate provisions order under paragraph (1)(ii) of this order, the committee shall in each case consider whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to it on any of the grounds laid down in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)); and if the committee is of the opinion that any such order or draft order should be annulled, or, as the case may be, should not be approved, they shall report that opinion to the House.[NEWLINE]In undertaking functions under this order, the committee and any sub-committee of it shall have the assistance of Counsel to the Speaker.[NEWLINE]In undertaking functions under this order, the committee and any sub-committee of it shall have power to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend meetings at which witnesses are being examined in relation to matters within paragraphs (1)(i) to (iii) and such Members may, at the discretion of the chair, ask questions of those witnesses; but no Member not being a member of the committee shall otherwise take part in the proceedings of the committee or sub-committee, or be counted in the quorum.[NEWLINE]It shall be an instruction to the committee that before reporting on a draft order it shall afford to any government department concerned an opportunity of furnishing orally or in writing to it or to the sub-committee appointed by it such explanations as the department thinks fit, except to the extent that the committee considers that it is not reasonably practicable to do so without risking the opportunity for effective exercise of a function conferred on it under section 15, 16, 17 or 18 of the Act or under section 19 of the Localism Act 2011.


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The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee shall examine and report on-[NEWLINE](i) every draft order laid before the House under or by virtue of section 7 of the Localism Act 2011 or section 5E of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004;[NEWLINE](ii) every draft order laid before the House under section 19 of the Localism Act 2011.[NEWLINE]In the case of every draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) the committee shall consider the Minister's recommendation under section 15(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act') as to the procedure which should apply to it and shall report to the House any recommendation under that Act that a different procedure should apply.[NEWLINE]In its consideration of a draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) the committee shall include, in addition to such other matters as it deems appropriate, whether provision in the draft order-[NEWLINE](a) appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated legislation;[NEWLINE](b) has an effect which is proportionate to the policy objective intended to be secured;[NEWLINE](c) strikes a fair balance between the public interest and the interests of any person adversely affected by it;[NEWLINE](d) does not remove any necessary protection;[NEWLINE](e) does not prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which that person might reasonably expect to continue to exercise;[NEWLINE](f) is not of constitutional significance;[NEWLINE](g) has been the subject of, and takes appropriate account of, adequate consultation;[NEWLINE](h) gives rise to an issue under such criteria for consideration of statutory instruments laid down in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) as are relevant.[NEWLINE]In its consideration of a draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(ii) the committee shall include, in addition to such other matters as it deems appropriate, whether provision in the draft order-[NEWLINE](a) appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated legislation;[NEWLINE](b) gives rise to an issue under such criteria for consideration of statutory instruments laid down in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) as are relevant.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order laid under section 7(2) of the Localism Act 2011 or section 5E(2) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 subject to the negative or affirmative procedure under section 16 or 17 of the 2006 Act, the committee shall report its recommendation whether the draft order should be made (in the case of the negative procedure) or approved (in the case of the affirmative procedure), indicating in the case of the latter whether the recommendation was agreed without a division.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order laid under section 7(2) of the Localism Act 2011 or section 5E(2) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 subject to the super-affirmative procedure under section 18 of the 2006 Act, the committee shall report its recommendation as to whether-[NEWLINE](a) the draft order should be proceeded with unamended under section 18(3) of the 2006 Act; or[NEWLINE](b) a revised draft order should be laid under section 18(7) of the 2006 Act; or[NEWLINE](c) no statement under section 18(3) of the 2006 Act or revised draft order under section 18(7) of the 2006 Act should be laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order that is subject to the super-affirmative procedure and is being proceeded with under section 18(3) or 18(7) of the 2006 Act, the committee shall report its recommendation whether the draft order or revised draft order should be approved, indicating in the case of draft orders which it recommends should be approved whether its recommendation was agreed without a division; and in respect of such draft orders or revised draft orders the committee shall consider in each case all such matters set out in paragraph (3) of this order as are relevant and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.[NEWLINE]It shall be an instruction to the committee considering draft orders referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order and being proceeded with under section 18(3) or 18(7) of the 2006 Act that it report not more than fifteen sitting days (in the case of an order under section 18(3) of the 2006 Act) or twenty-five sitting days (in the case of an order under section 18(7) of the 2006 Act) after the relevant statement is laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(i) of this order, the committee shall report any recommendation under section 16(4) of the 2006 Act that the draft order be not made, or under section 17(3), 18(5) or 18(9) of the 2006 Act that no further proceedings be taken in relation to the draft order.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order laid under section 19 of the Localism Act 2011, the committee shall report its recommendation as to whether-[NEWLINE](a) the draft order should be proceeded with unamended under section 19(3) of that Act; or[NEWLINE](b) a revised draft order should be laid under section 19(7) of that Act; or[NEWLINE](c) no statement under section 19(3) of that Act or revised draft order under section 19(7) of that Act should be laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order being proceeded with under section 19(3) or 19(7) of the Localism Act 2011, the committee shall report its recommendation whether the draft order or revised draft order should be approved, indicating in the case of draft orders which it recommends should be approved whether its recommendation was agreed without a division; and in respect of such draft orders or revised draft orders the committee shall consider in each case all such matters set out in paragraph (4) of this order as are relevant and the extent to which the Minister concerned has had regard to any resolution or report of the committee or to any other representations made during the period for parliamentary consideration.[NEWLINE]It shall be an instruction to the committee considering draft orders being proceeded with under section 19(3) or 19(7) of the Localism Act 2011 that it report not more than fifteen sitting days (in the case of an order under section 19(3) of that Act) or twenty-five sitting days (in the case of an order under section 19(7) of that Act) after the relevant statement is laid.[NEWLINE]In relation to every draft order or revised draft order referred to in paragraph (1)(ii) of this order, the committee shall report any recommendation under section 19(5) or 19(9) of the Localism Act 2011 that no further proceedings be taken in relation to the draft order.[NEWLINE]In undertaking functions under this order, the committee and any sub-committee of it shall-[NEWLINE](a) have the assistance of Counsel to the Speaker, and[NEWLINE](b) have power to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend meetings at which witnesses are being examined in relation to matters within paragraph (1) and such Members may, at the discretion of the chair, ask questions of those witnesses; but no Member not being a member of the committee shall otherwise take part in the proceedings of the committee or sub-committee, or be counted in the quorum.


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articleid: 00120
current_num: 12
root_num: 229
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Unless the House otherwise orders, the House shall not sit on any Friday other than those on which private Members' bills have precedence.[NEWLINE]At its rising on the Thursday before a Friday on which the House is not sitting the House shall stand adjourned till the following Monday without any question being put, unless it shall have resolved otherwise.[NEWLINE]Unless the House shall have resolved to adjourn otherwise than from the previous Thursday to the following Monday, the Fridays on which the House does not sit shall be treated as sitting days for the purpose of calculating any period under any order of the House and for the purposes of paragraph (6) of Standing Order No. 22 (Notices of questions, motions and amendments) and of Standing Order No. 64 (Notices of amendments, etc., to bills); and on such Fridays-[NEWLINE](a) notices of questions may be given by Members to the Table Office, and[NEWLINE](b) notices of amendments to bills, new clauses and new schedules and of amendments to Lords amendments, and notices of motions relating to proceedings on bills committed to a public bill committee, may be received by the Public Bill Office,[NEWLINE]between eleven o'clock and three o'clock.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
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articleid: 0039A
current_num: 39A
root_num: 320
text:
A Member eligible under paragraph (2) may arrange for their vote to be cast by one other Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote) under a scheme drawn up by the Speaker in accordance with this order and published by him.[NEWLINE]A Member is eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House for childbirth or care of an infant or newly adopted child, subject to the conditions set out in the scheme published under paragraph (1) of this order.[NEWLINE]A proxy vote may be cast-[NEWLINE](a) in any division, including a deferred division, in the House, in Committee of the whole House, save as provided in paragraph (4) below; and[NEWLINE](b) 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), Standing Order No. 122B (Election of select committee chairs) and Standing Order No. 122D (Election of Chair of Backbench Business Committee).[NEWLINE]No proxy vote shall be reckoned in the numbers participating in a division for the purposes of-[NEWLINE](a) Standing Order No. 41(1) (Quorum), and[NEWLINE](b) Standing Order No. 37 (Majority for closure of for proposal of question).[NEWLINE](a) 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.[NEWLINE](b) The Speaker shall cause that certificate, including the name of the Member nominated as a proxy, to be entered in the Votes and Proceedings no later than the sitting day on which it takes effect.[NEWLINE]A vote cast by a proxy shall be clearly indicated as such in the division lists published under the authority of the House.[NEWLINE]A Member is also eligible for a proxy vote by reason of absence from the precincts of the House in circumstances where there have been complications relating to childbirth; and the Speaker may make appropriate provision for the exercise of a proxy vote in such circumstances in the scheme drawn up under paragraph (1) above.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
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articleid: 0083I
current_num: 83I
root_num: 275
text:
The provisions of this order apply to proceedings in the House or in committee of the whole House on a bill which is subject to a programme order.[NEWLINE]Paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 15 (Exempted business) applies to the proceedings for any period after the moment of interruption allocated to them in accordance with the programme order.[NEWLINE]The proceedings may not be interrupted under any Standing Order relating to the sittings of the House.[NEWLINE]If, on a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day, a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 (Emergency debates) would, apart from this order, stand over to seven o'clock, four o'clock or three o'clock-[NEWLINE](a) that motion stands over until the conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion at or before that time; and[NEWLINE](b) the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion after that time is postponed for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.[NEWLINE]If a day on which the bill has been set down to be taken as an order of the day is one to which a motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 24 stands over from an earlier day, the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the bill which, in accordance with the programme order, are to be brought to a conclusion on that day is postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that motion.[NEWLINE]No dilatory motion may be made in relation to the proceedings except by a Minister of the Crown; and the question on any such motion is to be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]If at any sitting the House is adjourned, or the sitting is suspended, before the expiry of the period at the end of which proceedings are to be brought to a conclusion under a programme order, no notice is required of a motion made at the next sitting by a Minister of the Crown for varying or supplementing the provisions of the programme order.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
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articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards except in relation to the conduct of individual cases under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary; and[NEWLINE](c) in accordance with Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015) to report to the House recommendations for sanctions to run concurrently with sanctions determined by a sub-panel of the IEP and implemented by the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, may move motions and amendments to motions or draft reports, and may vote.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-10-19
articleid: 0150D
current_num: 150D
root_num: 319
text:
A motion may be moved by a member of the House of Commons Commission to implement a sanction in respect of an individual ICGS case determined by a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel.[NEWLINE]A motion under paragraph (1) of this Order includes a motion to implement a sanction recommended by the Committee on Standards under Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015), or a motion to implement both such a sanction and a sanction determined by a sub-panel of the IEP.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion under paragraph (1) of this order forthwith.[NEWLINE]Business under this order may be proceeded with until any hour, though opposed.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
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articleid: 0150E
current_num: 150E
root_num: 322
text:
The Chair of the IEP shall send to the Chair and Members of the Committee on Standards and to the Clerk of that Committee any report from a sub-panel of the IEP which he has referred to the Clerk of the House under subparagraph (5)(d) of Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) and which contains a determination for a sanction that would, if made by the Committee on Standards, engage the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015.[NEWLINE]Where a report has been sent to the Committee on Standards in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Order the Committee of Standards shall make a report to the House in relation to the Member named in that report, setting out a recommendation for a suspension equal to that recommended by the sub-panel to run concurrently with any sanction imposed as a result of the sub-panel's determination.[NEWLINE]Reports under paragraph (2) must be made no later than on the third sitting day after the report of the IEP sub-panel is sent to members of the Committee on Standards, save that the day on which the report is sent shall not be counted in calculating this period.[NEWLINE]If the Committee on Standards is unable to meet within three sitting days, the Chair shall, if satisfied that the report from the IEP sub-panel has been sent to all members of the Committee, make the report to the House from the Committee required under paragraph (2).


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
articleid: 01190
current_num: 119
root_num: 195
text:
There shall be three general committees, called European Committees, to which shall stand referred for consideration on motion, unless the House otherwise orders, such European Union documents as defined in Standing Order No. 143 (European Scrutiny Committee) as may be recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for further consideration.[NEWLINE]If a motion that specified European Union documents as aforesaid shall not stand referred to a European Committee is made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, the question thereon shall be put forthwith.[NEWLINE]Each European Committee shall consist of thirteen Members nominated by the Committee of Selection in respect of any European Union document which stands referred to it, and the Committee of Selection may nominate the same membership in respect of several documents.[NEWLINE]In nominating the members of a European Committee, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to the qualifications of the Members nominated and to the composition of the House; and where practicable it shall nominate at least two members of the European Scrutiny Committee and at least two members of the select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) whose responsibilities most closely relate to the subject matter of the document or documents.[NEWLINE]The quorum of a European Committee shall be three, excluding the chair.[NEWLINE]Any Member, though not nominated to a European Committee, may take part in the committee's proceedings and may move amendments to any motion made as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below, but such Member shall not make any motion, vote or be counted in the quorum; provided that a Minister of the Crown who is a Member of this House but not nominated to the committee may make a motion as provided in paragraphs (9) and (10) below.[NEWLINE]The European Committees, and the principal subject matter of the European Union documents to be referred to each, shall be as set out below; and in making recommendations for further consideration, the European Scrutiny Committee shall specify the committee to which in its opinion the documents ought to be referred; and, subject to paragraph (2) of this order, the documents shall be referred to that committee accordingly-[NEWLINE]European Committees | Principal subject matter[NEWLINE] | Matters within the responsibilities of the following Departments-[NEWLINE]A | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport; Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Forestry Commission; and analogous responsibilities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices.[NEWLINE]B | HM Treasury (including HM Revenue & Customs); Work and Pensions; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Home Office; Ministry of Justice (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Committee A); International Trade; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by this Order.[NEWLINE]C | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Education; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Health and Social Care.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit a member of the European Scrutiny Committee appointed to the committee under paragraph (4) above to make a brief statement of no more than five minutes, at the beginning of the sitting, explaining that committee's decision to refer the document or documents to a European Committee.[NEWLINE]The chair may permit Ministers of the Crown to make statements and to answer questions thereon put by Members, in respect of each motion relative to a European Union document or documents referred to a European Committee of which a Minister shall have given notice; but no question shall be taken after the expiry of a period of one hour from the commencement of the first such statement: Provided that the chair may, if he sees fit, allow questions to be taken for a further period of not more than half an hour after the expiry of that period.[NEWLINE]Following the conclusion of the proceedings under the previous paragraph, the motion referred to therein may be made, to which amendments may be moved; and, if proceedings thereon have not been previously concluded, the chair shall interrupt the consideration of such motion and amendments when the committee shall have sat for a period of two and a half hours, and shall then put forthwith successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the chair; and[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended).[NEWLINE]The chair shall thereupon report to the House any resolution to which the committee has come, or that it has come to no resolution, without any further question being put.[NEWLINE]If any motion is made in the House in relation to any European Union document in respect of which a report has been made to the House in accordance with paragraph (10) of this order, the Speaker shall forthwith put successively-[NEWLINE](a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved;[NEWLINE](b) the main question (or the main question, as amended);[NEWLINE]and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]With the modifications provided in this Order, the following Standing Orders shall apply to European Committees- No. 85 (Chair of general committees); No. 88 (Meetings of general committees); and No. 89 (Procedure in general committees).


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


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releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
articleid: 01520
current_num: 152
root_num: 190
text:
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies.[NEWLINE]The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:[NEWLINE]Name of Committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum members[NEWLINE]1 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 11[NEWLINE]2 Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11[NEWLINE]3 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 11[NEWLINE]4 Education | Department for Education | 11[NEWLINE]5 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 11[NEWLINE]6 Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11[NEWLINE]7 Health and Social Care | Department of Health and Social Care | 11[NEWLINE]8 Home Affairs | Home Office | 11[NEWLINE]9 International Development | Department for International Development | 11[NEWLINE]10 International Trade | Department for International Trade | 11[NEWLINE]11 Justice | Ministry of Justice (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) | 11[NEWLINE]12 Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 11[NEWLINE]13 Northern Ireland Affairs | Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel) | 13[NEWLINE]14 Science and Technology | Government Office for Science | 11[NEWLINE]15 Scottish Affairs | Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General))| 11[NEWLINE]16 Transport | Department for Transport | 11[NEWLINE]17 Treasury | Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs | 11[NEWLINE]18 Welsh Affairs | Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales) | 11[NEWLINE]19 Women and Equalities | Government Equalities Office | 11[NEWLINE]20 Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 11[NEWLINE]Each select committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.[NEWLINE]Select committees appointed under this order shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) to report from time to time the evidence taken before sub-committees, and the formal minutes of sub-committees;[NEWLINE]and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time their formal minutes, and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2021-11-24
articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-12
articleid: 0039A
current_num: 39A
root_num: 320
text:
A Member eligible under paragraph (2) may arrange for their vote to be cast by one other Member acting as a proxy (a proxy vote) under a scheme drawn up by the Speaker in accordance with this order and published by him.[NEWLINE]A Member is eligible for a proxy vote by reason of (a) childbirth; (b) care of an infant or newly adopted child; and (c) complications relating to childbirth, miscarriage or baby loss, subject to the conditions set out in the scheme published under paragraph (1) of this order.[NEWLINE]A proxy vote may be cast-[NEWLINE](a) in any division, including a deferred division, in the House, in Committee of the whole House, save as provided in paragraph (4) below; and[NEWLINE](b) 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), Standing Order No. 122B (Election of select committee chairs) and Standing Order No. 122D (Election of Chair of Backbench Business Committee).[NEWLINE]No proxy vote shall be reckoned in the numbers participating in a division for the purposes of-[NEWLINE](a) Standing Order No. 41(1) (Quorum), and[NEWLINE](b) Standing Order No. 37 (Majority for closure of for proposal of question).[NEWLINE](a) 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.[NEWLINE](b) The Speaker shall cause that certificate, including the name of the Member nominated as a proxy, to be entered in the Votes and Proceedings no later than the sitting day on which it takes effect.[NEWLINE]A vote cast by a proxy shall be clearly indicated as such in the division lists published under the authority of the House.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 01490
current_num: 149
root_num: 235
text:
There shall be a select committee, called the Committee on Standards-[NEWLINE](a) to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards except in relation to the conduct of individual cases under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to examine the arrangements proposed by the Commissioner for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House; to review from time to time the form and content of those registers; and to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests referred to it by the Commissioner; and[NEWLINE](b) to consider any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and which have been drawn to the committee's attention by the Commissioner; and to recommend any modifications to such code of conduct as may from time to time appear to be necessary; and[NEWLINE](c) in accordance with Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015) to report to the House recommendations for sanctions to run concurrently with sanctions determined by a sub-panel of the IEP and implemented by the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall consist of seven Members, and seven lay members.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to refer to such sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee.[NEWLINE]Lay members may take part in proceedings of the committee and of any sub-committee to which they are appointed and may ask questions of witnesses, may move motions and amendments to motions or draft reports, and may vote.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be three members who are Members of this House and three lay members, and the quorum of any sub-committee shall be three, of whom at least one shall be a Member of this House and at least one a lay member.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to adjourn from place to place;[NEWLINE](b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (8) of this order, to report from time to time;[NEWLINE](c) to appoint legal advisers, and to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters or complexity within the committee's order of reference.[NEWLINE]Any lay member present at a meeting at which a report has been agreed shall have the right to submit a paper setting out that lay member's opinion on the report. The Committee shall not consider a motion that the Chair make a report to the House until it has ascertained whether any lay member present wishes to submit such a paper; and any such paper shall be appended to the report in question before it is made to the House.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to order the attendance of any Member before the committee or any sub-committee and to require that specific documents or records in the possession of a Member relating to its inquiries, or to the inquiries of a sub-committee or of the Commissioner, be laid before the committee or any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to refer to unreported evidence of former Committees on Standards and Privileges and of former Committees on Standards and to any documents circulated to any such committee.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to refuse to allow proceedings to which the public are admitted to be broadcast.[NEWLINE]The Attorney General, the Advocate General and the Solicitor General, being Members of the House, may attend the committee or any sub-committee, may take part in deliberations, may receive committee or sub-committee papers and may give such other assistance to the committee or sub-committee as may be appropriate, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum.[NEWLINE]The committee and any sub-committee shall have power to communicate its evidence and any other information in its possession to a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel in respect of a Code of Conduct case that has been appealed to the Panel.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion to implement a sanction recommended by the Committee (or a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel where it recommends a sanction following an appeal) in respect of a Code of Conduct case forthwith; such a motion may be proceeded with until any hour, though opposed, and no Member shall be eligible to participate in any division on such a motion where it relates to their own conduct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 01500
current_num: 150
root_num: 236
text:
There shall be an Officer of this House, called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who shall be appointed by the House.[NEWLINE]The principal duties of the Commissioner shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to maintain the Register of Members' Financial Interests and any other registers of interest established by the House, and to make such arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of those registers as are approved by the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](b) to provide advice confidentially to Members and other persons or bodies subject to registration on matters relating to the registration of individual interests;[NEWLINE](c) to advise the Committee on Standards, its sub-committees and individual Members on the interpretation of any code of conduct to which the House has agreed and on questions of propriety;[NEWLINE](d) to monitor the operation of such code and registers, and to make recommendations thereon to the Committee on Standards or an appropriate sub-committee thereof;[NEWLINE](e) to investigate, if he thinks fit, specific matters which have come to his attention relating to the conduct of Members and to report to the Committee on Standards or to an appropriate sub-committee thereof, unless the provisions of paragraph (4) apply; and[NEWLINE](f) to oversee investigations and make findings in cases against Members under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme; to refer such case to the Independent Panel of Experts where a sanction beyond her powers is contemplated; and to assist the Panel and its sub-panels in its work.[NEWLINE]In determining whether to investigate a specific matter relating to the conduct of a Member the Commissioner shall have regard to whether in his view there is sufficient evidence that the Code of Conduct or the rules relating to registration or declaration of interests may have been breached to justify taking the matter further.[NEWLINE]No report shall be made by the Commissioner-[NEWLINE](a) in any case where the Member concerned has agreed that he has failed to register or declare an interest, if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the interest involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent;[NEWLINE](b) in any case involving parliamentary allowances, or the use of facilities or services;[NEWLINE](c) in any case relating to the rules for All-Party Parliamentary Groups if it is the Commissioner's opinion that the breach involved is minor, or the failure was inadvertent-[NEWLINE]where the Member concerned has, by agreement, taken such action by way of rectification as the Commissioner may have required.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have power to-[NEWLINE](a) instigate informal discussions with a Member to indicate concern about the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct; and[NEWLINE](b) require a Member to attend a formal meeting at which the Commissioner may indicate concern about or give words of advice on the Member's reported attitude, behaviour or conduct.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall report each year to the House on the exercise by him of his functions.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner shall have leave to publish from time to time-[NEWLINE](a) information and papers relating to-[NEWLINE](i) matters resolved in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order; and[NEWLINE](ii) complaints not upheld; and[NEWLINE](b) information about complaints received and matters under investigation.[NEWLINE]The Commissioner may be dismissed only following a resolution of the House, moved for by a Member of the House of Commons Commission, after the Committee on Standards has reported to the House that it is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold his office or unable to carry out his functions; and any such report shall include a statement of the Committee's reasons for its conclusion.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 0150A
current_num: 150A
root_num: 316
text:
There shall be a Panel, to be known as the Independent Expert Panel, whose members shall be appointed by the House in accordance with Standing Order No. 150C (Appointment of Independent Expert Pane Members).[NEWLINE]The Panel shall consist of eight members, of whom a quorum shall be four.[NEWLINE]The functions of the Panel shall be-[NEWLINE](a) to determine the appropriate sanction in Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) cases referred to it by the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards;[NEWLINE](b) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in respect of ICGS cases involving Members of this House;[NEWLINE](c) to hear appeals against a sanction imposed under paragraph (a);[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](e) to hear appeals against the decisions of the Committee on Standards under Standing Order No. 149(1)(b) in relation to individual cases under the Code of Conduct;[NEWLINE](f) to consider any case of non-compliance by a Member of this House with a sanction imposed under sub-paragraph (a) or any other recommendation made in a report by a sub-panel in relation to an ICGS case; and to determine the appropriate sanction.[NEWLINE]The Panel may elect its own Chair.[NEWLINE]The responsibilities of the Chair shall include-[NEWLINE](a) ensuring that the Panel and its sub-panels comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions and standing orders of this House, and with the Procedural Protocol for Code of Conduct cases;[NEWLINE](b) the appointment of sub-panels to consider individual cases;[NEWLINE](c) co-ordinating the work of the Panel with that of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in relation to ICGS cases and the Committee on Standards in relation to Code of Conduct cases;[NEWLINE](d) referring any report from a sub-panel which determines, or confirms on appeal, a sanction that can only be imposed by the House, and any other report from a sub-panel that the Chair considers should be published, to the Clerk of the House who shall lay it upon the Table of the House;[NEWLINE](e) informing the parties concerned of the outcome of any other ICGS case reported to the Chair by a sub-panel, and ensuring compliance as appropriate with sanctions determined or recommendations made by a sub-panel;[NEWLINE](f) establishing the procedure for an appeal against the findings or determination of a sub-panel in cases referred under (3)(a) above;[NEWLINE](g) 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.[NEWLINE]The Panel and any sub-panel shall have power-[NEWLINE](a) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House;[NEWLINE](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;[NEWLINE](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.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 0150B
current_num: 150B
root_num: 317
text:
Cases referred to the Independent Expert Panel under Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) shall be considered by a sub-panel appointed under paragraph (5)(b) of that order.[NEWLINE]A sub-panel shall consist of three members of the Panel and shall have a quorum of three.[NEWLINE]Sub-panels shall sit in private.[NEWLINE]A sub-panel may request the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to conduct further investigations in respect of an ICGS case referred to it and may specify the matters to be covered in that investigation.[NEWLINE]In respect of a Code of Conduct case a sub-panel may request that the Committee on Standards or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards share specific documents or records in their possession relating to the sub-panel's inquiries.[NEWLINE]In respect of each case referred to it, a sub-panel shall make a report of its findings to the Chair of the Panel.[NEWLINE]Where an appeal is made against a finding or determination of a sanction by a sub-panel in an ICGS case, a new sub-panel shall be established to hear that appeal. No member shall be eligible to hear an appeal against the decision of a sub-panel on which they have served.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 0150D
current_num: 150D
root_num: 319
text:
A motion may be moved by a member of the House of Commons Commission to implement a sanction in respect of an individual ICGS case determined by a sub-panel of the Independent Expert Panel.[NEWLINE]A motion under paragraph (1) of this Order includes a motion to implement a sanction recommended by the Committee on Standards under Standing Order No. 150E (IEP recommendations for sanctions and the Recall of MPs Act 2015), or a motion to implement both such a sanction and a sanction determined by a sub-panel of the IEP.[NEWLINE]The Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on a motion under paragraph (1) of this order forthwith.[NEWLINE]Business under this order may be proceeded with until any hour, though opposed.[NEWLINE]No member shall be eligible to participate in any division on such a motion where it relates to their own conduct.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-10-18
articleid: 0150E
current_num: 150E
root_num: 322
text:
The Chair of the IEP shall send to the Chair and Members of the Committee on Standards and to the Clerk of that Committee any report from a sub-panel of the IEP which he has referred to the Clerk of the House under subparagraph (5)(d) of Standing Order No. 150A (Independent Expert Panel) and which contains a determination for a sanction that would, if made by the Committee on Standards, engage the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015.[NEWLINE]Where a report has been sent to the Committee on Standards in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Order in relation to an ICGS case, or where a sub-panel has determined a sanction different to that recommended by the Committee on Standards in a Code of Conduct case, the Committee of Standards shall make a report to the House in relation to the Member named in that report, setting out a recommendation for a suspension equal to that recommended by the sub-panel to run concurrently with any sanction imposed as a result of the sub-panel's determination.[NEWLINE]Reports under paragraph (2) must be made no later than on the third sitting day after the report of the IEP sub-panel is sent to members of the Committee on Standards, save that the day on which the report is sent shall not be counted in calculating this period.[NEWLINE]If the Committee on Standards is unable to meet within three sitting days, the Chair shall, if satisfied that the report from the IEP sub-panel has been sent to all members of the Committee, make the report to the House from the Committee required under paragraph (2).


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-11-30
articleid: 01450
current_num: 145
root_num: 194
text:
A select committee shall be appointed, to be called the Liaison Committee-[NEWLINE](a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees,[NEWLINE](b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission, and[NEWLINE](c) to report to the House its choice of select committee reports to be debated on such days as may be appointed by the Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (15) of Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall).[NEWLINE]The committee may also hear evidence from the Prime Minister on matters of public policy.[NEWLINE]The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day or half day which may be allotted for that purpose; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House:[NEWLINE]Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time.[NEWLINE]Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to appoint two sub-committees, one of which shall be a National Policy Statements sub-committee.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statements sub-committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of-[NEWLINE](i) those members of the committee who are members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Transport and Welsh Affairs Committees; and[NEWLINE](ii) up to two other members of the committee, one of whom shall be appointed chair of the sub-committee;[NEWLINE](b) shall report to the committee on the use of the committee's powers under paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 152H (Planning: national policy statements); and[NEWLINE](c) may report to the committee on matters relating to national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008.[NEWLINE]Each sub-committee shall have-[NEWLINE](a) a quorum of three; and[NEWLINE](b) power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time.[NEWLINE]The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before any sub-committee.[NEWLINE]The quorum of the committee shall be as provided in Standing Order No. 124 (Quorum of select committees), save that for consideration of a report from a National Policy Statements sub-committee under sub-paragraph (7)(b) the quorum shall be three.


chamberid: ukhoc
releaseid: 2.1.0
versionid: 2022-11-30
articleid: 0152H
current_num: 152H
root_num: 285
text:
Whenever a proposal for a national policy statement is laid before this House under section 9(2) of the Planning Act 2008 ('the Act'), the Liaison Committee shall report either-[NEWLINE](a) that it has designated a select committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or[NEWLINE](b) that it recommends the appointment of a National Policy Statement Committee[NEWLINE]to consider the proposal.[NEWLINE]A National Policy Statement Committee-[NEWLINE](a) shall be composed of not fewer than seven nor more than fourteen members, all of whom shall be, at the time of nomination, members of one or more of the following select committees-[NEWLINE]Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Environmental Audit, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Science and Technology, Transport, Welsh Affairs;[NEWLINE](b) shall have power-[NEWLINE](i) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place within the UK; and[NEWLINE](ii) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference; and[NEWLINE](c) may report from time to time and shall cease to exist when the relevant national policy statement is designated.[NEWLINE]A committee designated or appointed to consider a proposal for a national policy statement shall have power, in the course of its proceedings under this order, to invite Members of the House who are not members of the committee to attend, and, at the discretion of the chair, take part in, its proceedings, but such Members may not move any motion or amendment to any motion or draft report, nor vote nor be counted in the quorum of the committee.


