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Machinery Of Government Changes: Amendments To Standing Orders

Volume 410: debated on Thursday 11 September 2003

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Ordered,

That—

  • (1) Standing Order No. 94 (Scottish Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) be amended in line 2 by leaving out the second 'Scottish' and inserting 'Scotland',
  • (2) Standing Order No. 103 (Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)) be amended in line 2 by leaving out the second 'Welsh' and inserting 'Wales';
  • (3) Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) be amended in the table in paragraph (6), as follows:
  • (a) in line 5, by leaving out 'Transport, Local Government and the Regions' and inserting 'Transport; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister';
  • (b) in line 12, by leaving out 'Lord Chancellor's Department' and inserting 'Department for Constitutional Affairs (excluding those responsibilities of the Scotland and Wales Offices which fall to European Standing Committee A)';
  • (4) Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended in the Table in paragraph (2), as follows:
  • (a) before item 1 insert
    '1 Constitutional Affairs Department for Constitutional 11'; Affairs (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland)
  • (b) leave out the item relating to the Lord Chancellor's Department inserted on 27th January;
  • (c) in item 16, leave out 'Welsh Office (Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales))' and insert 'Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales)'; and
  • (5) the Order of 5th November 2001 relating to Liaison Committee (Membership) be amended, in paragraph (2), by leaving out 'Lord Chancellor's Department' and inserting 'Constitutional Affairs'.—[Gillian Merron.]