Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill - Motion to Refer to Grand Committee

House of Lords, 18 October 2021.

Lord Tyler (Liberal Democrat)

My Lords, can the noble Lord the Chief Whip explain exactly what the procedure will be, as this Bill apparently is to go into Committee before it reaches this House for Second Reading? Can he elucidate on what would happen if the House does not give the Bill a Second Reading?

Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)

It is not going to Committee; it is going to Grand Committee. It will be rather like a statutory instrument. The debate will take place in Grand Committee and then it will come back to the Chamber for a vote to commit the Bill so that if—which I hope is unlikely—a Member wanted to vote on not giving the Bill a Second Reading, they would be able to do it in this Chamber.

Motion agreed.

Sitting suspended.