1st sitting · Tuesday, 25 February 2014 · 3 speeches

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Examination of Witness

  36 speeches

  Richard Jones gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  35 speeches

  Sarah Veale, Hugh Robertson, Jennie Formby and Susan Murray gave evidence.

• Examination of Witness

  27 speeches

  Mike Spicer gave evidence.

• Examination of Witness

  16 speeches

  Richard Hamer gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  41 speeches

  Andrew Tate and Louise Curtis gave evidence.

2nd sitting · Tuesday, 25 February 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair] Written evidence to be reported to the House DB 01 Andy Howard DB 02 John Trevelyan DB 03 NASUWT

• Examination of Witnesses

  18 speeches

  Janet Davis and Sarah Slade gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  32 speeches

  Paul Raynes and Ed Turner gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  20 speeches

  Ian Bauckham and Andy Grace gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  27 speeches

  Mark Hammond and Wendy Hewitt gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  38 speeches

  Sara Higham and Alexander Ehmann gave evidence.

• Examination of Witnesses

  27 speeches

  Alexander Jackman and Professor Julia Black gave evidence.

3rd sitting · Thursday, 27 February 2014 · 3 speeches

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] Written evidence to be reported to the House DB 04 The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) DB 05 Peter McKay

• Clause 1 - Health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons

  83 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 3, in clause 1, page 1, line 4, leav e out subsections (1) and (2) and insert— ‘(1) After section 52 of the Health and Safety at...

4th sitting · Thursday, 27 February 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Clause 1 - Health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons

  74 speeches

  Amendment proposed (this day): 3, in clause 1, page 1, line 4, leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert— ‘(1) After section 52 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974...

• Clause 2 - Removal of employment tribunals’ power to make wider recommendations

  34 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

5th sitting · Tuesday, 4 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] Written evidence to be reported to the House DB06 Professor Löfstedt DB07 Equality and Diversity Forum DB08 R3

• Clause 3 - Apprenticeships: simplification

  105 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 3, page 2, line 16, at end add— ‘(5) The Secretary of State shall report annually on— (a) the implementation...

• Schedule 1 - Approved English apprenticeships

  68 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 7, in schedule 1, page 46, line 15, at end insert— ‘(c) be no lower than National Vocational Qualification Level 3 by 2020.’. Having...

6th sitting · Tuesday, 4 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Schedule 1

  19 speeches

  Approved English apprenticeships

• Clause 4 - English apprenticeships: funding arrangements

  20 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 5 - Driving instructors

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 6 - Motor insurers

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 7 - Shippers etc of gas

  3 speeches

  Question proposed,That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 8 - Suppliers of fuel and fireplaces

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 9 - Sellers of knitting yarn

  11 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 10 - Authorisation of insolvency practitioners

  23 speeches

  Question proposed,That the clause stand part of the Bill.

7th sitting · Thursday, 6 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chopein the Chair]

• Clause 11 - Auditors ceasing to hold office

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 12 - Insolvency and company law: miscellaneous

  9 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 13 - Recorded rights of way: additional protection

  16 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 14 - Unrecorded rights of way: protection from extinguishment

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 15 - Conversion of public rights of way to private rights of way

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 16 - Applications by owners etc for public path orders

  7 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 17 - Extension of powers to authorise erection of gates at owner’s request

  11 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 18 - Applications for certain orders under Highways Act 1980: cost recovery

  12 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 19 - Public rights of way: procedure

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 6 - Ascertainment of rights of way

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Sixth schedule to the Bill.

• Clause 20 - Erection of public statues (London): removal of consent requirement

  7 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

8th sitting · Thursday, 6 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 21 - Reduction of qualifying period for right to buy

  100 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 5, in clause 21, page 17, line 28, leave out ‘three’ and insert ‘two’.

9th sitting · Tuesday, 11 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 22 - Removal of power to require preparation of housing strategies

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 23 - Removal of restrictions on provision of passenger rail services

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 7 - Provision of passenger rail services

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Seventh schedule to the Bill.

• Clause 24 - Reduction of burdens relating to the use of roads and railways

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 8 - Regulation of the use of roads and railways

  14 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 11, in schedule 8, page 111, line 21, at end insert— ‘(8) If an exemption order is made the Secretary of State shall produce a report...

• Clause 25 - Reduction of burdens relating to enforcement of transport legislation

  28 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 26 - Removal of duty to order re-hearing of marine accident investigations

  48 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

10th sitting · Tuesday, 11 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 26 - Removal of duty to order re-hearing of marine accident investigations

  14 speeches

  Question (this day) again proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 27 - Repeal of power to make provision for blocking injunctions

  16 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 28 - Reduction of duties relating to energy and climate change

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 29 - Household waste: de-criminalisation

  19 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 30 - Other Measures relating to animals, food and the environment

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 11 - Other measures relating to animals, food and the environment

  28 speeches

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Eleventh schedule to the Bill.

11th sitting · Thursday, 13 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Clause 31 - Management of child trust funds: looked after children

  18 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 32 - Management of child trust funds: children 16 or over

  2 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 33 - Child trust funds: transfers

  4 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 34 - Child trust funds: safeguards for children’s interests

  12 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 35 - Abolition of office of Chief Executive of Skills Funding

  13 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 12 - Abolition of office of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding

  4 speeches

  Tom Brake rose—

• Clause 36 - Further and higher education sectors: reduction of burdens

  7 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 13 - Further and higher education: reduction of burdens

  29 speeches

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Thirteenth schedule to the Bill.

12th sitting · Thursday, 13 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Clause 37 - Schools: reduction of burdens

  14 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 14 - Schools: reduction of burdens

  35 speeches

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Fourteenth schedule to the Bill.

• Clause 38 - Temporary event notices: increase in maximum number of events per year

  28 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 16, in clause 38, page 28, line 34, l eave out ‘15’ and insert ‘18’.

• Clause 39 - Personal licences: no requirement to renew

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 15 - Amendments consequential on section 39

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the schedule be the Fifteenth schedule to the Bill.

• Clause 40 - Sale of liqueur confectionery to children under 16: abolition of offence

  14 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 41 - Late night refreshment

  7 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 42 - Removal of requirement to report loss or theft of licence etc to police

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 43 - Exhibition of films in community premises

  25 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 15, in clause 43, page 30, line 43, l eave out ‘500 persons’ and insert ‘250 persons for an indoor screening and 1,000...

13th sitting · Tuesday, 18 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Clause 44 - Repeal of Senior President of Tribunals’ duty to report on standards

  42 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 45 - Criminal procedure: written witness statements

  11 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 46 - Criminal procedure: written guilty pleas

  5 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 47 - Criminal procedure: powers to make Criminal Procedure Rules

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 48 - “MAPPA arrangements” to cease to apply to certain offenders

  3 speeches

  Question proposed,That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 49 - Removal of requirement that prison closures be made by order

  9 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

14th sitting · Tuesday, 18 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• Clause 50 - London street trading appeals: removal of role of Secretary of State in appeals

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 51 - Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004: enforcement

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 52 - Reduction in regulation of providers of social work services

  29 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 53 - Access to registers kept by Gas and Electricity Markets Authority

  20 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 54 - Repeal of duty to prepare sustainable community strategy

  18 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 55 - Repeal of duties relating to local area agreements

  2 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 56 - Repeal of provisions relating to multi-area agreements

  7 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 57 - Repeal of duties relating to consultation or involvement

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 58 - Power to spell out dates described in legislation

  7 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 17, in clause 58, page 39, line 15, a t end insert— ‘( ) An order under this section may not amend subordinate legislation made...

• Clause 59 - Ambulatory references to international shipping instruments

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 60 - Legislation no longer of practical use

  2 speeches

  Question proposed,That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Schedule 17 - Legislation no longer of practical use

  79 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 19, in schedule 17, page 143, line 11, at end insert—

15th sitting · Thursday, 20 March 2014 · 1 speech

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 61 - Exercise of regulatory functions: economic growth

  65 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 27, in clause 61, page 40, line 34, l eave out from ‘function’ to end of line 41 and insert— ‘must publish an annual...

16th sitting · Thursday, 20 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 61 - Exercise of regulatory functions: economic growth

  162 speeches

  Amendment proposed (this day): 27, in clause 61, page 40, line 34, leave out from ‘function’ to end of line 41 and insert— ‘must publish an annual report which—...

• Clause 62 - Functions to which section 61 applies

  3 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 63 - Guidance on duty under section 61

  2 speeches

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 64 - Sections 61 to 63: interpretation

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 65 - Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations

  1 speech

  Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.

• Clause 67 - Extent

  0 speeches

  Amendment made: 23, in clause 67, page 43, line 30, a fter ‘paragraphs’ insert ‘23A, 23B, 26A,’.—(James Duddridge.)

17th sitting · Tuesday, 25 March 2014

[Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair]

• Clause 68 - Commencement

  19 speeches

  I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 68, page 43, line 39, a t end insert ‘() section (Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party...

• New Clause 8 - Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party determination

  0 speeches

  ‘Schedule(Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party determination)amends the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 to provide for certain matters arising under the Act...

• New Clause 9 - Private hire vehicles: circumstances in which driver’s licence required

  74 speeches

  ‘(1) Section 46 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (vehicle, drivers’ and operators’ licences) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1)(b), for...

• New Clause 10 - Taxis and private hire vehicles: duration of licences

  0 speeches

  ‘(1) The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 is amended as follows. (2) In section 53 (drivers’ licences for hackney carriages and private hire vehicles)— (a)...

• New Clause 11 - Private hire vehicles: sub-contracting

  0 speeches

  ‘In the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, after section 55 insert— “55A Sub-contracting by operators (1) A person licensed under section 55 who has in a...

• New Clause 12 - Optional building requirements

  0 speeches

  ‘After section 2A of the Building Act 1984 insert— “2B Optional requirements (1) Building regulations made by the Secretary of State may include requirements that apply only if...

• New Clause 13 - Amendment of Planning and Energy Act 2008

  0 speeches

  ‘In the Planning and Energy Act 2008, in section 1 (energy policies), after subsection (1) insert— “(1A) Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to development in England that consists...

• New Clause 18 - Requirements to wear safety helmets: exemption for Sikhs

  8 speeches

  ‘(1) Section 11 of the Employment Act 1989 (exemption of Sikhs from requirements as to wearing of safety helmets on construction sites) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to...

• New Clause 19 - TV licensing: duty to review sanctions

  57 speeches

  ‘(1) The Secretary of State must carry out a review of the sanctions that are appropriate in respect of contraventions of section 363 of the Communications Act 2003 (licence required for...

18th sitting · Tuesday, 25 March 2014

[Mr Jim Hood in the Chair]

• New Clause 19 - TV licensing: duty to review sanctions

  44 speeches

  ‘(1) The Secretary of State must carry out a review of the sanctions that are appropriate in respect of contraventions of section 363 of the Communications Act 2003 (licence required for...

• New Clause 20 - TV licensing: alternatives to criminal sanctions

  0 speeches

  ‘(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument— (a) replace the TV licensing offences with civil monetary penalties payable to the BBC, or (b) amend Part...

• New Clause 3 - Mechanically propelled vehicles on unsealed roads: removal of burdens

  21 speeches

  ‘(1) Within one year of the coming into force of this section the Secretary of State shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a report containing an assessment of the burdens and costs...

• New Clause 4 - Housing revenue account

  17 speeches

  ‘In section 171 of the Localism Act 2011 (which makes provision about limits on indebtedness in relation to local housing authorities’ housing revenue accounts) for subsections (1) to...

• New Clause 5 - Licensing: review of legislation

  25 speeches

  ‘(1) No later than the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must commence a cross-government review of all legislation...

• New Clause 6 - Discount for person exercising right to buy

  19 speeches

  ‘(1) Section 129 of the Housing Act 1985 (which makes provision about discounts to which persons exercising the right to buy are entitled) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection...

• New Clause 15 - Repeal of rules relating to the submission of D1 forms in hard copy

  9 speeches

  ‘(1) Section 3 of The Insolvent Companies (Reports on Conduct of Directors) Rules 1996 is amended in accordance with subsection (2). (2) Leave out subsection (2) of the Rules mentioned in...

• New Clause 16 - Nursery schools: inclusion in schools trusts

  9 speeches

  ‘(1) In section 18 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, omit subsection (4)(f).’.—(Chi Onwurah.)

• New Schedule 1 - ‘Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party determination

  5 speeches

  1 The Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 is amended as follows. 2 In section 2 (restriction on letting agricultural land for less than from year to year), after subsection (4) (determination of...