Home Energy Conservation Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:30 am on 24 January 2002.

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Photo of Desmond Turner Desmond Turner Labour, Brighton, Kemptown 9:30, 24 January 2002

I beg to move,

That, if proceedings on the Home Energy Conservation Bill are not concluded at today's sitting, the Committee do meet on Tuesday 5th February at half-past Ten o'clock and half-past Four o'clock.

As members of the Committee will observe, there are a considerable number of amendments, and that implies that more time will be needed to consider them than is available in a short morning sitting. The sittings motion allows us to reconvene on 5 February, with morning and afternoon sittings available.

I am not aware that anyone has departed from the political consensus on the Bill on Second Reading, which was fairly remarkable by the standards of private Members' Bills. The Committee will try to resolve drafting problems.