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[2nd Allocated Day] - (Clauses 63 to 68 and 83 to 86, schedule 13, and any new clauses or new schedules relating to the subject matter of those clauses and schedules)

Finance (No. 2) Bill – in the House of Commons at 3:45 pm on 13 January 2026.

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Further considered in Committee (Progress reported, 12 January)

[Caroline Nokes in the Chair]

Photo of Caroline Nokes Caroline Nokes Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art, Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art, Deputy Speaker (Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means)

I remind Members that in Committee, they should not address the Chair as Deputy Speaker. I ask them please to use our names when addressing the Chair. Madam Chair, Chair, and Madam Chairman are also acceptable.

Deputy Speaker

The Deputy speaker is in charge of proceedings of the House of Commons in the absence of the Speaker.

The deputy speaker's formal title is Chairman of Ways and Means, one of whose functions is to preside over the House of Commons when it is in a Committee of the Whole House.

The deputy speaker also presides over the Budget.