Enterprise Bill
10:30 am
Mr Douglas Alexander (Minister of State (E-Commerce and Competitiveness), Department of Trade and Industry; Paisley South, Labour)
I beg to move,
That the Order of the Committee [16th April] relating to programming be amended as follows:—
for paragraphs (4) and (5) there is substituted—
`(4) the proceedings on Clauses 20 to 66, Schedule 5, Clauses 67 to 81, Schedule 6, Clause 82, Schedule 7, Clauses 83 to 86, Schedule 9, Clauses 87 to 160, Schedule 8, Clauses 161 to 174, Clause 199, Clause 175, Schedule 10, Clauses 176 and 177, Schedule 11, Clauses 178, Schedule12, Clause 12, Schedule 2, Clauses 13 and 14, Schedule 3, Clause 15, Clause 19, Schedule 4, Clauses 227 and 228, Schedule 14, Clauses 229 to 231, Schedule15 and Clauses 232 to 238 shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 7p.m on Tuesday 7th May;';
in paragraph (6), for `5 p.m. on Thursday 9th May', there is substituted `7 p.m. on Tuesday 14th May'; in paragraph (7), for `7 p.m. on Tuesday 14th May' there is substituted `5 p.m. on Thursday 16th May'.
We have agreed to extend the Committee's proceedings by providing an additional two sittings, which will allow for the consideration of the remaining mergers and market investigation clauses. The motion removes the knives that would have fallen today at 1 pm and 7 pm, so as to conclude that portion of the Bill by Tuesday.