Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)

Gen Kitchen Excerpts

Committee stage
Wednesday 14th May 2025 Public Bill Committees

[The Chair]

This afternoon, probably, after lunch. [Hon. Members: “Why?”] They are in that sequence on the amendment paper.

[Gen Kitchen (Wellingborough and Rushden) (Lab)]

I know we vote on new clause 104 later. But will we vote on amendments 75 and 82 now?

[The Chair]

If you look at your amendment paper, page 7 has got amendment 75, but we are only on page 2 now.

[Gen Kitchen]

Is it not that they are grouped together, so we vote on them as a group?

[The Chair]

They are grouped for purposes of debate, but the vote comes later.

--- Later in debate ---

[The Chair]

It goes according to the sequence in the amendment paper. At the moment we are at amendment 29, on page 3 of the amendment paper. When will we reach amendment 73, on page 5? How long is a piece of a string? We intend to reach it today, but perhaps not before the sitting is adjourned at 11.25. This was all decided in a Programming Sub-Committee at the beginning of our Committee proceedings; someone put matters in this order.

[Gen Kitchen]

Further to that point of order, Dr Huq. Opposition Members are very interested in their amendments, but I am keenly and acutely interested in Government amendment 48 and schedule 3. Government amendment 48 is on page 10 of the amendment paper. We have been going through the groupings of amendments on the selection list, and in previous sittings, when we have voted on amendments, we have voted on the groupings, rather than following the amendment paper. I am concerned that if we are now following the amendment paper, we should have voted today on amendments 5, 21, 22, 76, 122, 4 and 72.

[Paul Holmes]

We have voted on some of those.

[Gen Kitchen]

But we have not voted on amendment 5.

[Paul Holmes]

Exactly.

[Gen Kitchen]

So therefore we have been going through the groupings, rather than the amendment paper.

[The Chair]

The learned Clerk tells me that he can ventriloquise an explanation but it would be easier for him to explain after the sitting is adjourned.