– in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 am on 14 March 2017.
Before we start the formal business, I welcome you all to the first sitting of the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill Committee. I want to establish a few ground rules. First, I tend towards the more traditional form of chairing, so anyone seen drinking coffee or speaking into the telephone will be ticked off roundly. I do not really mean it; I sound more ferocious than I really am, but none the less I will be ferocious about it all and take such things incredibly seriously.
We have two or three formal matters to consider, and then we will go into the business of allocating questions before we bring the public in. Technically speaking, we have to bring the public in and throw them out again, but that seems to me to be a bit back to front, so we will try to avoid that. Let us crack on with the formal motions.
Ordered,
That—
(1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 9.25 am on Tuesday 14 March) meet—
(a) at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 14 March;
(b) at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 16 March;
(c) at 9.25 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 21 March;
(d) at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 23 March;
(2) the Committee shall hear oral evidence on Tuesday 14 March in accordance with the following Table:
TABLE
Time
Witness
Until no later than 10.25 am
Automated Driving Insurers Group; Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders; RAC Foundation; TRL
Until no later than 11.25 am
National Grid; UK Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Association; Quentin Willson, motoring journalist
Until no later than 3.00 pm
The Institute of the Motor Industry; Downstream Fuel Association; Association of Convenience Stores
Until no later than 3.45 pm
Association of British Insurers; Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Until no later than 4.30 pm
Civil Aviation Authority; Association of British Travel Agents
Until no later than 5.30 pm
British Airlines Pilots Association; Metropolitan Police; National Police Air Services; UK Flight Safety Committee
(3) proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 16; Schedules 1 and 2; Clause 17; Schedules 3 and 4; Clauses 18 to 24; Schedule 5; Clauses 25 to 27; new Clauses; new Schedules; remaining proceedings on the Bill;
(4) the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 pm on Thursday 23 March.—