– in a Public Bill Committee at on 5 September 2023.
George Howarth
Labour, Knowsley
9:25,
5 September 2023
Before we begin, I have a couple of preliminary announcements. Hansard colleagues would be grateful if Members could email their speaking notes to hansardnotes@parliament.uk. Please switch electronic devices to silent. Tea and coffee are not allowed during sittings.
We will first consider the programme motion on the Amendment paper. We will then consider a motion to enable the reporting of written evidence for publication, and a motion to allow us to deliberate in private about our questions before the oral evidence session. In view of the time available, I hope we can take those matters formally, without debate.
I call the Minister to move the programme motion standing in her name, which was discussed yesterday by the Programming Sub-Committee.
Ordered,
That—
(1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 9.25 am on Tuesday 5 September) meet—
(a) at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 5 September;
(b) at 11.30 am on Thursday 7 September;
(c) at 9.25 am and 2 pm on Tuesday 12 September;
(d) at 11:30am and 2 pm on Thursday 14 September;
(2) the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following Table:
TABLE
Date
Time
Witness
Until no later than 9.55 am
Local Government Association; Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board
Until no later than 10.25 am
Jewish Leadership Council; Board of Deputies of British Jews
Until no later than 10.55 am
Councillor Bob Deering; Councillor James Jamieson
Until no later than 11.10 am
Yachad
Until no later than 11.25 am
Conservative Friends of Israel
Until no later than 2.30 pm
Henry Jackson Society; Free Speech Union
Until no later than 2.45 pm
World Uyghur Congress
Until no later than 3.00 pm
Stephen Cragg KC
Until no later than 3.45 pm
Francis Hoar; Professor Andrew Tettenborn; Professor Adam Tomkins
Until no later than 4.00 pm
Balfour Project
Until no later than 4.30 pm
UNISON; Scottish Trades Union Congress
Until no later than 12.00 pm
UK Lawyers for Israel; Steven Barrett
Until no later than 12.30 pm
Human Rights Watch; Friends of the Earth; Amnesty International
Until no later than 12.45 pm
Richard Hermer KC
Until no later than 1.00 pm
Melanie Phillips
(3) proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 3; the Schedule; Clauses 4 to 17; 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 14 September.—
George Howarth
Labour, Knowsley
Copies of written evidence that the Committee receives will be made available in the Committee Room and circulated to Members by email. We will now go into private session to discuss lines of questioning.
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