Business without Debate

2nd reading: House of Commons
Tuesday 26th February 2019 Commons Chamber

Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords]

Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 90(5) and Order of 14 February), That the Bill be now read a Second time.

Question agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and stood committed to a Public Bill Committee (Standing Order No. 63(1).

Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 90(6)),

That the Public Bill Committee to which the Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords] is committed shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Question agreed to.

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)]

For the convenience of the House, we will take motions 12 to 15 together.

Delegated Legislation

Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)),

Exiting the European Union (Atomic Energy and Radioactive Substances)

That the draft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 21 January, be approved.



Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)

That the Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.R. (N.I.), 2019, No. 8), which were laid before this House on 31 January, be approved.



That the Civil Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 147), which were laid before this House on 31 January, be approved.



Northern Ireland

That the draft Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Election Expenses) Order 2019, which was laid before this House on 4 February, be approved.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Question agreed to.



Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6) and Order of 19 February),

That, in pursuance of paragraph 2A of Schedule 3 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, Ms Cindy Butts be appointed as a lay member of the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority for a period of five years from 1 March 2019 to 29 February 2024.—(Rebecca Harris.)

Question agreed to.