Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill
9:25 am
Ms Caroline Flint (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (reducing organised and international crime, anti drugs co-ordination and international and European issues), Home Office; Don Valley, Labour)
I beg to move,
That,
(1) during proceedings on the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill, in addition to its first meeting at 9.25 am on Tuesday llth January, the Standing Committee shall meet at—
(a) 2.30 pm on Tuesday llth January, and
(b) 9.25 am and 2.30 pm on Thursday 13th January, Tuesday 18th January and Thursday 20th January;
(2) the Bill be considered in the following order, namely, Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clauses 2 to 50, Schedule 2, Clauses 51 and 52, Schedule 3, Clause 53, Schedule 4, new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 1, Clauses 54 to 74, Schedule 5, Clauses 75 to 90, Schedule 6, Clauses 91 to 100, new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 2, Clauses 101 and 102, Schedule 7, Clauses 103 to 113, Schedules 8 and 9, Clauses 114 and 115, new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 3, Clauses 120 to 122, Clauses 125 to 128, Clauses 134 to 136, Schedule 11, Clause 137, Schedule 12, Clause 138, Schedule 13, Clauses 139 and 140, Schedule 14, Clauses 141 to 147, Schedule 15, Clauses 116 to 119, Schedule 10, Clauses 123 and 124, Clauses 129 to 133, new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Parts 4 and 5, Clauses 148 to 150, Schedule 16, Clauses 151 to 155, remaining new Clauses and new Schedules, remaining proceedings on the Bill;
(3) proceedings on the Bill shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 6.55 pm on Thursday 20th January.
Welcome to the Chair, Dame Marion, and I congratulate you on your damehood. I enjoyed working with you on the Select Committee on Administration, and I am sure that you will bring the same directness and fairness to our proceedings here.
I thank the Opposition Front Bench team for their co-operation on programming the Committee's business. I understand their concern about the amount of time being made available. We think that, in large part, the Bill has the Opposition's support and that eight sittings will suffice, but we are prepared to work later and to consider requests for extensions. I hope that we will have success with the Bill.
I hope that the Committee will bear with me for not attending on 18 January, as I will be involved in the Second Reading of the Drugs Bill. I thank the Committee for its co-operation.