Motion to Approve the United Kingdom Space Agency (Consolidation and Expansion) (Commencement) Order 2024

That the United Kingdom Space Agency (Consolidation and Expansion) (Commencement) Order 2024 be approved.

The United Kingdom Space Agency (Consolidation and Expansion) (Commencement) Order 2024 can be found here.

This order and motion were written by the Rt. Hon. Dame /u/Faelif CT CB GBE PC MP MLA MSP MS, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Space, Science, Research and Innovation. It is presented on behalf of His Majesty’s 34th Government.

Opening speech by /u/Faelif:

[Deputy] Speaker,

As this statutory instrument is a broadly bureaucratic one I will keep my words brief here, but suffice to say this Order does nothing much more than bringing the United Kingdom Space Agency (Consolidation and Expansion) Act into force. The primary reason it requires parliamentary approval is that it redefines UKSA in previous regulations to match the new definition and that it fixes a minor typo in the original Act. Needless to say, these are required for us to begin the Atalanta programme in full force and I hope that my Hon. and Rt. Hon. friends and colleagues can get behind this Order so we can begin the process of spreading out across the solar system.

[Deputy] Speaker, I commend the motion to the House.

This reading closes at 10PM GMT on Wednesday 7 February 2024.

As this was posted after 10PM, it is open for an extra day.