Public Bodies Bill committee stage: day five
22 December 2010
The fifth day of the committee stage – line by line examination – of the Public Bodies Bill took place in the Lords on Tuesday 21 December.
- Watch the debate: Public Bodies Bill committee stage, day five
- Lords Hansard: read a transcript of the debate
Scrutiny of Schedule 1, which lists the bodies and offices that will face being abolished should the Bill become law, continued. Members of the Lords debated proposals to amend Schedule 1 to exclude the following from the list:
- Amendment 27: Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
- Amendment 28: Commission for Rural Communities
- Amendment 29: Committee on Agricultural Valuation
- Amendment 30: Competition Service
The amendments were unsuccessful and the bodies remain part of Schedule 1.
- Fifth Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee as at 17 December 2010
- Supplementary to the Fifth Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee as at 21 December 2010
Public Bodies Bill committee stage: day four
- Watch the debate: Public Bodies Bill committee stage, day four
- Lords Hansard: read a transcript of the debate
- Lords divisions analysis: view the results of the vote
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff introduced amendment 26 to Schedule 1: Power to abolish: bodies and offices. Baroness Finlay said the amendment sought to ensure that the appointment the chief coroner, a post created by the Coroner and Justice Act 2009, was ‘not abandoned.’
The House agreed to the amendment by 277 votes to 165 – the second defeat for the government on this Bill.
Proposals for amendments to a Bill are published in a marshalled list of amendments one day before the Bill stage takes place.
Further information
The Public Bodies Bill grants new powers to allow Ministers to abolish, merge or transfer functions of public bodies.
- Bills before Parliament: Public Bodies Bill
- Passage of a Bill: committee stage (Lords)
- Lords news: Public Bodies Bill committee stage day two
- Lords news: Public Bodies Bill committee stage day one
- Lords news: Public Bodies Bill: second reading
- Lords news: Public Bodies Bill raises serious concerns
- Lords news: Public Bodies Bill grants Ministers ‘inappropriate powers’