Thursday, 10 March 2022
The following Act was given Royal Assent: Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to mitigate the impact on women of the rising cost of living; and in particular, the impact on single mothers in poorer households.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the detention of political prisoners, (2) the attacks on journalists, and (3) the constitutional referendum, in...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the annual numbers of care home residents (1) evicted, (2) threatened with eviction, or (3) facing a visiting ban,...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking, if any, to support the provision of the BBC World Service to the people of Ukraine.
Relevant documents: 13th Report from the Constitution Committee, 5th Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, 21st Report from the Delegated Powers Committee Clause 14: Strategy and...
Baroness Meacher: Moved by Baroness Meacher A1: Clause 14, page 21, leave out lines 6 and 7
Lord True: Moved by Lord True 1: Clause 14, page 21, line 13, at end insert—“(3A) The statement must not include provision in relation to elections, referendums and other matters so...
Lord True: Moved by Lord True 2: Clause 14, page 21, line 15, at end insert—“(5) For the purposes of subsection (3A)—(a) the Commission’s “devolved Scottish...
The following Statement was made in the House of Commons on Wednesday 9 March. “With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the situation in Ukraine and Her...
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Home Secretary to an Urgent Question in another place on...
Lord Collins of Highbury: Moved by Lord Collins of Highbury 3: Clause 14, page 21, line 15, at end insert—“(5) This section expires at the end of the period of 12 months beginning...
Lord Collins of Highbury: Moved by Lord Collins of Highbury 4: Clause 14, page 21, line 15, at end insert—“(5) A statement designated under this section must not be published until a...
Lord True: Moved by Lord True 5: Clause 14, page 22, line 14, leave out “Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs” and insert “Levelling Up, Housing and...
Lord Collins of Highbury: Moved by Lord Collins of Highbury 7: Clause 14, page 22, line 18, at end insert—“(f) civil society groups.”Member’s explanatory statementThis...
Lord True: Moved by Lord True 10: Clause 14, page 22, line 34, leave out from beginning to end of line 16 on page 23Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the...
Lord True: Moved by Lord True 15: Clause 14, page 25, line 16, leave out “Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs” and insert “Levelling Up, Housing and...
Baroness Hayman of Ullock: Moved by Baroness Hayman of Ullock 17: Clause 17, page 27, line 33, after “money” insert “greater than a peppercorn”Member’s explanatory...
Lord Rennard: Moved by Lord Rennard 18: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause—“Fines for electoral offences (1) The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil...
The Bill was brought from the Commons, endorsed as a money Bill, and read a first time. House adjourned at 6.52 pm.
Debates in the House of Lords are an opportunity for Peers from all parties (and crossbench peers, and Bishops) to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.
