Banking Bill
10:30 am
Jimmy Hood (Lanark and Hamilton East, Labour)
Before we begin, I have a few preliminary announcements. Members may, if they wish, remove their jackets during Committee meetings. Will all Members please ensure that all mobile phones, pagers and other electronic devices are turned off or on to silent mode? If something goes off while on silent mode, I ask Members to switch it off or, if they are going to answer it, to leave the Committee Room.
There is a money resolution and a Ways and Means resolution in connection with the Bill, and copies are available in the room. I remind hon. Members to give adequate notice of amendments. As a general rule, my fellow Chairmen and I do not intend to call starred amendments, including any starred amendments that may be reached during an afternoon sitting of the Committee.
First, the Committee will consider the programme motion on the amendment paper, for which debate is limited to half an hour. We will then proceed to a motion to report written evidence, and then to a motion to permit the Committee to deliberate in private in advance of the oral evidence sessions. I hope that we can deal with that formally.
Assuming that the second motion is agreed to, the Committee will move into private session. Once the Committee has deliberated, the witnesses and members of the public will be invited back into the room and our oral evidence session will commence. If the Committee agrees to the programme motion, it will hear oral evidence this morning and this afternoon. From Thursday, we will revert to the familiar process of clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Bill.