Tuesday, 24 January 2023
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps he is taking to ensure that ambulance services continue to operate during strikes.
If he will bring forward a plan to increase (a) retention and (b) recruitment of NHS staff.
What recent steps he has taken to implement the women’s health strategy for England.
What steps he is taking to help improve access to GPs.
What steps he is taking to improve access to NHS dentistry.
What steps his Department is taking to increase the number of NHS beds available in the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of excess deaths in 2022.
What recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK’s departure from the EU on recruitment in the health and social care sector.
What recent progress he has made on tackling the covid-19 backlog in elective care.
If he will make an assessment of the adequacy of GP appointment availability in (a) Chesterfield constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary if she will make a statement on what steps she is taking to find missing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and to keep them safe.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Second Church Estates Commissioner if he will make a statement on the outcome of the meeting of Church of England bishops on equal marriage in the Church of England.
Before I call the Minister, I point out that, with regard to the forthcoming statement, I understand that an appeal against sentence has been made in the case of Jordan McSweeney. That means that...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Nadia Whittome, supported by Philip Dunne, Mr Robin Walker, Darren Jones, Greg Clark, Caroline Lucas, Layla Moran, Mhairi Black, Rebecca...
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
Ordered, That the Order of 13 October 2022 (Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill: Programme) be varied as follows: (1) Paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Order shall be omitted. (2)...
Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee [Relevant documents: the Eleventh Report of the Treasury Committee of Session 2021-22, Economic crime, HC 145, and the Government...
“(1) Section 3 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (disqualification for persistent breaches of companies legislation) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1), for the...
“(1) Section 5 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (disqualification on summary conviction) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1), for the words from ‘provision...
“(1) The Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3150 (N.I. 4)) is amended as follows. (2) In Article 6 (disqualification for persistent breaches of...
“(1) Article 8 of the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3150 (N.I. 4)) (disqualification on summary conviction) is amended as follows. (2) In...
“(1) Regulation 2 of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1773) (interpretation) is amended as follows. (2) In paragraph (1)— (a) at the end of...
“After section 26 of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 (inserted by section 138 of this Act) insert— ‘26A Removal of limited partnership from index of names (1) The registrar...
“(1) The Secretary of State must— (a) prepare reports on the implementation and operation of Parts 1 to 3, and (b) lay a copy of each report before Parliament. (2) The first report...
‘(1) The Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 is amended as follows. (2) After Clause 5A (Disqualification for certain convictions abroad) insert— “5B Person convicted...
“(1) Within six months of the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must publish a report on the authorisation of foreign corporate service providers. (2) The report in...
“(1) The registrar must ensure that information set out in the register prior to the provisions of this Act coming into force is accurate, up to date, and meets the requirements set out in...
Amendments made: 1, page 3, line 22, leave out from “1110A)” to end of line 28. This amendment and Amendments 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 52, 53 and 55 remove...
Amendment made: 3, page 13, line 11, at end insert— “(4) In section 1081 (annotation of the register), in subsection (6), after ‘subsection (2)’ insert...
Amendments made: 4, page 27, line 13, leave out from “1110A)” to end of line 1600. See Member’s explanatory statement for Amendment 1. Amendment...
Amendment made: 7, page 28, line 29, leave out clause 41.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) This amendment leaves out clause 41, the effects of which are incorporated in NC8 and NC9.
Amendment made: 8, page 29, line 17, leave out clause 42.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) This amendment leaves out clause 42, the effects of which are incorporated in NC10 and NC11.
Amendment made: 9, page 46, line 24, leave out “to 1110C” and insert “and 1110B”.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) See Member’s explanatory statement...
Amendment made: 10, page 53, line 29, leave out clause 64.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) See Member’s explanatory statement for Amendment 1.
Amendments made: 11, page 57, line 32, at end insert— “(4A) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring a statement delivered to the...
Amendment made: 13, page 70, line 17, at end insert— “(c) to a person of a description, and for a purpose, specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State...
Amendment made: 14, page 75, line 17, leave out from “1110A)” to end of line 20.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) See Member’s explanatory statement for Amendment 1.
Amendment made: 15, page 78, line 27, leave out clause 102.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) This amendment leaves out clause 102, the effects of which are incorporated in NC8 and NC9.
Amendment made: 16, page 79, line 8, leave out clause 103.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) This amendment leaves out clause 103, the effects of which are incorporated in NC10 and NC11.
Amendments made: 17, page 85, line 16, after “Act” insert “(for the only circumstances in which a firm can cease to be registered as a limited partnership...
Amendments made: 19, page 95, line 3, leave out from “8K(1)(a)” to end of line 7 and insert “to (c).” This amendment and Amendments 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,...
Amendments made: 26, page 102, line 20, leave out from “8K(1)(a)” to end of line 24 and insert “to (c).” See Member’s explanatory statement for...
Amendments made: 28, page 113, line 40, at end insert— “(1A) In section 4 (definition and constitution of limited partnership)— (a) in subsection (2), after...
Amendments made: 30, page 115, line 23, at end insert— “(1A) Where it appears to the Scottish Ministers that it is expedient in the public interest for a limited...
Amendment made: 32, page 116, leave out lines 2 and 3 and insert “any of the following— (a) the Secretary of State; (b) the Scottish Ministers, but only if the limited...
Amendment made: 33, page 117, leave out lines 17 to 22 and insert— “(c) so much of any statement delivered to the registrar under any of the following provisions as is...
Amendments made: 34, page 118, line 34, at end insert “or deregistered under section 26”. This amendment and Amendments 35, 36 and 37 mean that after 20 years the...
Amendment made: 38, page 122, leave out lines 11 to 41 and insert— “(1) A person who is a general partner in a limited partnership at a time when it is dissolved must notify...
Amendment made: 39, page 125, line 6, at end insert— “(3A) Notes entered on the register of limited partnerships in accordance with subsection (3)(a) are part of...
Amendments made: 40, page 129, leave out lines 39 to 41 and insert— “(a) a statement under section 8A(1C) may name the person as a proposed general partner’s proposed...
Amendment made: 42, page 131, line 11, leave out from “under” to end of line 14 and insert “any Act, whenever passed or made.”—(Kevin...
Amendment made: 43, page 132, line 24, leave out from “2006)” to end of line 26.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) Clause 147(1)(b) confers power to require a partner of a...
Amendments made: 52, page 172, line 16, leave out from “1110A)” to end of line 19. See Member’s explanatory statement for Amendment 1. Amendment...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) (Amendment) Order 2023, which was laid before this House on 7 December 2022, be approved.—(Fay Jones.) Question agreed to. Motion...
That the draft Environmental Targets (Biodiversity) (England) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 19 December 2022, be approved.—(Fay Jones.) The Deputy Speaker’s...
That the draft Environmental Targets (Water) (England) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 19 December 2022, be approved.—(Fay Jones.) The Deputy Speaker’s opinion...
That the draft Environmental Targets (Marine Protected Areas) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 19 December 2022, be approved.—(Fay Jones.) Question agreed to. Motion...
That the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2022, dated 14 December 2022, which were laid before this House on 15 December 2022, be approved.—(Fay Jones.)...
Ordered,
That Gareth Davies, Felicity Buchan and Harriett Baldwin be discharged from the Finance Committee and Craig Mackinlay, Nigel Mills and Mary Robinson be added.—(Sir Bill Wiggin, on behalf of...
That James Davies, John Lamont and Sir Robert Syms be discharged from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and Damien Moore, Gareth Johnson and Maggie Throup be added.—(Sir Bill...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Fay Jones.)
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