Public Bill Committees

Previously called Standing Committees, Public Bill Commitees study proposed legislation (Bills) in detail, debating each clause and reporting any amendments to the Commons for further debate.

There are at least 16 MPs on a Committee, and the proportion of parties reflects the House of Commons, so the government always has a majority.

  • Bribery Bill [Lords]

    1st sitting · Tuesday, 16 March 2010 · 11 speeches

    [Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair]

    • Clause 1

      81 speeches

      Offences of bribing another person

    • Clause 6

      7 speeches

      Bribery of foreign public officials

  • Bribery Bill [Lords]

    2nd sitting · Tuesday, 16 March 2010 · 1 speech

    [Joan Walley in the Chair] BR 01 Transparency International UK

    • Clause 6

      47 speeches

      Bribery of foreign public officials

    • Clause 7

      66 speeches

      Failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery

    • Clause 8

      14 speeches

      Meaning of associated person

    • Clause 9

      36 speeches

      Guidance about commercial organisations preventing bribery

  • Bribery Bill [Lords]

    3rd sitting · Thursday, 18 March 2010 · 1 speech

    [Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] BR 02 City of London Corporation

    • Clause 13

      9 speeches

      Defence for certain bribery offences: legitimate purposes

  • Bribery Bill [Lords]

    4th sitting · Thursday, 18 March 2010

    [Joan Walley in the Chair]

    • Clause 13

      34 speeches

      Defence for certain bribery offences: legitimate purposes

    • Clause 14

      6 speeches

      Offences under sections 1, 2 and 6 by bodies corporate etc.

    • Clause 15

      16 speeches

      Offences under section 7 by partnerships

    • Clause 19

      2 speeches

      Commencement and transitional provision etc.

    • New Clause 1

      21 speeches

      Annual strategy report ‘The Secretary of State shall make provision for the publication of an annual report to be issued by the Government which shall set out as a minimum— (a) the...

    • New Clause 2

      47 speeches

      Advisory service ‘(1) The relevant government department shall make provision for a service which shall respond to specific enquiries from any commercial organisation on a without prejudice...

  • Bribery Bill [Lords]

    5th sitting · Tuesday, 23 March 2010 · 2 speeches

    [Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] 

All bills in this session

Committee membership and attendance (out of 5)

Chairpersons

  • Joan Walley (2)
  • Nicholas Winterton (3)

Members

  • Ann Cryer (4)
  • Evan Harris (1)
  • Oliver Heald (5)
  • Keith Hill (4)
  • Helen Jones (5)
  • Peter Kilfoyle (4)
  • Tom Levitt (5)
  • Robert Syms (5)
  • Claire Ward (5)
  • Lord Wills (4)
  • Jonathan Djanogly (5)
  • Kitty Ussher (4)
  • David Howarth (5)
  • Jeremy Wright (5)
  • John Howell (5)
  • William Bain (5)

[ Committee memberships can change partway through ]