Sentencing (Pre-Consolidation Amendments) Bill

Nigel Evans Excerpts

3rd reading & Committee stage & 3rd reading: House of Commons & Committee: 1st sitting & Committee: 1st sitting: House of Commons
Thursday 4th June 2020 Commons Chamber

Mr Nigel Evans in the Chair

[The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. I should explain, as was explained yesterday, that although the Chair of the Committee would normally sit in the Clerk’s chair during Committee stage, in these exceptional circumstances, and in order to comply with social distancing requirements, I will remain in the Speaker’s Chair, although I will be carrying out the role not of Deputy Speaker, but of Chairman of the Committee.

Clause 1

Consolidation of sentencing legislation: amendment of law for old offences

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

[The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means]

With this it will be convenient to consider clauses 2 to 5 stand part, and schedules 1 and 2 stand part.