Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]
12:00 pm
Miss Melanie Johnson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Welwyn Hatfield, Labour)
I beg to move,
That 1. during proceedings on the Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords], the Standing Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 9.05 am on Tuesday 29th June 2004) meet at 2.30 pm on Tuesday 29th June 2004 and at 9.05 am and 2.30 pm on Thursday 1st July 2004;
2. the proceedings shall be taken in the following order:
Clause 1
Schedule 1
Clauses 5 and 6
Clause 8
Schedule 2
Clauses 9 to 11
Schedules 3 and 4
Clauses 12 and 13
Clauses 2 to 4
Clause 7
New Clauses
New Schedules
Any remaining proceedings on the Bill;
3. the proceedings on the Bill (so far as not previously concluded) shall be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 pm on Thursday 1st July 2004.
It will be a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair, Mrs. Adams, but first I propose that the Committee accepts the programme motion. The hon. Member for Westbury (Dr. Murrison) asked me in the Programming Sub-Committee about the time taken in the Lords. The Lords debated the Bill for just under nine and a half hours, and spent just under four and a half hours discussing it in Grand Committee. By comparison, we propose ample time to discuss the Bill, and do not want to insert any knives into the timetable. The Programming Sub-Committee accepted the motion unanimously.
Question put and agreed to.