Business without Debate
Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)
With the leave of the House, we shall take motions 7 and 8 together.
Immigration
Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2015, which were laid before this House on 15 January, be approved.
That the draft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2015, which was laid before this House on 2 February, be approved. —(Harriett Baldwin.)
Question accordingly agreed to.
European Union Documents
Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 119(11),
European Semester
That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 15985/14, a Commission Communication: Annual Growth Survey 2015, No. 15953/14 and Addendum, a draft Joint Employment Report from the Commission and the Council, accompanying the Commission Communication on the Annual Growth Survey 2015, No. 15988/14 and Addendum, a Commission Report: Alert Mechanism Report 2015 (prepared in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EU) No. 1176/2011 on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances), and an unnumbered Document, European Economic Forecast Autumn 2014; and acknowledges the priorities identified in the Annual Growth Survey of boosting investment and renewing commitment to structural reform and fiscal responsibility, and the contents of the Alert Mechanism Report. —(Harriett Baldwin.)
Question agreed to.
Sittings of the house (Westminster Hall) (16 March)
Ordered,
That the Backbench Business Committee may determine that a sitting should take place in Westminster Hall on Monday 16 March to consider a petition which a Member of the House has requested be debated; and paragraphs (1) and (5) of the Standing Order No. 10 (Sittings in Westminster Hall) shall have effect as if the phrase “e-petition or e-petitions” and the word “e-petition”, wherever they occurred, were replaced by the word “petition”. —(Harriett Baldwin.)