Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Virtual participation in proceedings commenced (Order, 4 June). [NB: [V] denotes a Member participating virtually.]
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps his Department is taking to support businesses during the covid-19 outbreak.
What steps he is taking to support sub-postmasters affected by the Horizon post office scandal.
What support he plans to provide to the aerospace sector.
What support his Department is providing to (a) the beauty sector and (b) other sectors that remain fully or partially locked down as a result of social distancing measures.
What support his Department is providing to the retail and hospitality sectors as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
What steps his Department is taking to ensure a (a) green and (b) resilient economic recovery from the covid-19 outbreak.
What steps he has taken to ensure that the indoor air quality of offices, shops, restaurants and bars is adequate to help prevent the spread of covid-19 among workers and customers.
What steps his Department is taking to encourage home working; and if he will make a statement.
What recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing support for businesses in Scotland.
What steps he is taking to increase the level of investment in research and development throughout the UK.
What steps he is taking to help the events sector recover from the covid-19 pandemic.
What steps he is taking to secure the future of UK research and development.
What assessment he has made of the effect of winding down the coronavirus job retention scheme on employment levels.
What steps his Department is taking to support (a) vaccine manufacturing and (b) UK life sciences.
What support his Department is providing to businesses to help them operate in a covid-secure way.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on changes to the licence fee exemptions, programming and job losses at the BBC.
With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the progress on the Windrush lessons learned review. As I have said in this House on a number of occasions, the Windrush scandal...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 16 June, the UK and US Governments signed a draft US-UK technology safeguards agreement, and on 18 June, I asked the Government when they would...
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee.
“(1) Within 18 months of enactment, the Secretary of State must commission a review and publish a report on the impact of the provisions in the Act on the National Probation Service. (2) A...
“(1) The Secretary of State must commission a review and publish a report on the effectiveness of current strategies to deal with lone terrorists. (2) A review under subsection (1) must be...
Amendment proposed: 30, page 5, line 35, at end insert— “(7) The pre-sentence report must — (a) take account of the offender’s age; (b) consider whether options other than...
Amendment made: 6, page 8, line 12, at end insert— “(ea) the court does not make an order for lifelong restriction,”.—(Robert Buckland.) This amendment provides that a...
Amendment made: 7, page 11, line 38, after “is” insert “making an order for lifelong restriction to which section 205ZB applies in respect of an offender or”....
Amendment made: 8, page 13, line 11, at end insert “, or (ii) makes an order for lifelong restriction in respect of the person.” —(Robert Buckland.) This amendment requires the...
Amendments made: 9, page 20, line 8, after “convicted” insert “on indictment”. This amendment provides that the new terrorism sentence may be imposed only when an offender...
Amendment made: 17, page 38, line 2, at end insert— “(2) In section 17 of that Act (jurisdiction in relation to decisions under the Act), in subsection (3), after paragraph (c)...
Amendments made: 18, page 38, line 40, at end insert— “(3A) Regulations under sub-paragraph (2) may make— (a) different provision for different purposes or different areas; (b)...
Amendments made: 20, page 42, line 31, leave out sub-paragraph (iv) and insert— “(iv) paragraphs 45 and 46;”. This amendment corrects a drafting error and provides for the...
Amendments made: 23, page 115, line 24, at end insert— “Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1908 (N.I. 27)) 33A In Article 6 of the Rehabilitation of...
Consideration of Lords amendments
I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 41A(3)), That, at this day’s sitting, Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply to the Motions in the name of...
With the leave of the House, we shall take motions 4 to 8 together. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I., 2020, No. 684), dated 3 July 2020, a copy of which was laid before this House on 3 July, be...
That the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (S.I., 2020, No. 680), dated 5 July 2020, a copy of which was laid before this House on 6 July, be approved.
That the draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, which were laid before this House on 6...
British Airways staff have been renowned for decades for their commitment to first-class customer service, and long before lockdown and furlough, BA was in receipt of public funding, not least...
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the lives of many in our country, not least mothers on maternity leave. They have been unable to avail themselves of normal health visitor support or...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(David T. C. Davies.)
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