Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
I beg to move,
That the Order of the Committee of 3 February be amended as follows:
(1) in paragraph (1) of the Order of the Committee of 3 February, there shall be inserted at the end—
‘(h) at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 10 March;’;
(2) in paragraph (4) of that Order, for ‘4.00 pm on Thursday 5 March’ there shall be substituted ‘10.00 pm on Tuesday 10 March’.
Following discussions through the usual channels with my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham and the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth, the House has agreed to extend the Committee stage of the Bill by a day on Tuesday 10 March. The motion makes the necessary consequential change to the programme order adopted by the Committee at its first sitting. Next Tuesday, we shall sit until 10 pm, and I am convinced that that additional time will be enough to complete the scrutiny of the Bill.