Previous business
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Commons: Main Chamber   See this day →

• Vehicle Fuel Receipts (Transparency of Taxation) Bill - First reading – Robert Halfon Legislation
• Deputy Prime Minister, including Topical Questions; Attorney General Oral Questions; 11:30 am
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage Legislation
• Election of Chair of the Procedure Committee Speaker's Statement
• Extradition Statement
• Vehicle Fuel Receipts (Transparency of Taxation) – Robert Halfon Ten Minute Rule Motion
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage Legislation
• Miscalculations of former spouses' armed forces pensions – John Glen Adjournment debate

Lords: Main Chamber   See this day →

• Infrastructure (Financial Assistance) Bill - First reading – Lord Newby Legislation
• Unemployment amongst older women – Baroness Thornton Oral Questions; 2:30 pm
• Trade and investment successes achieved as a result of the Olympic and Paralympic Games – Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Oral Questions
• Recommendations of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel on building character and personal resilience – Baroness Tyler of Enfield Oral Questions
• Protecting consumers from rising energy costs – Lord Kennedy of Southwark Oral Questions
• Extradition – Lord Taylor of Holbeach Statement
• Local Government Finance Bill - Report stage (Day 2) – Baroness Hanham Legislation
• National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Regulations 2012 – Motion – Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Short Debate
• Estimated Rising Time; 10:00 pm

Commons: Westminster Hall   See this day →

• Effect on rural incomes of abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board – Jamie Reed 9:30 am – 11:00 am
• Scottish separation and the future of the BBC – Anas Sarwar 11:00 am – 11:30 am
• Sentencing of female offenders – Philip Davies 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
• Tonbridge hospital & Edenbridge hospital – John Stanley 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
• Tendering process for sale of Remploy factories – William Bain 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Commons: General Committees

• First Delegated Legislation Committee: Draft Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012 8:55 am; Room 11, Palace of Westminster
• Small Charitable Donations Bill Committee 8:55 am; The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House

Commons: Select Committees

Public Administration: Regulation of the Charitable Sector and the Charities Act 2006 9:15 am; Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE, leader of Government Review of the Charities Act 2006

Health: Annual accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council 9:30 am; Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Mark Addison CB, Chair, and Jackie Smith, Chief Executive and Registrar

Justice: Youth Justice 9:30 am; The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Debbie Pippard, Vice Chair, Transition to Adulthood Alliance, Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner and Claire Moser, Policy Officer, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists; Hugh Thornberry, Director of Business Development, Action for Children, Clare Hobbs, Manager, Wessex Dance Academy, Ian Langley, Strategic lead, Supporting Troubled Families Programme and Dr Becky Morland, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Senior Manager of Health and Family Intervention Team, Peterborough Youth Offending Service

Business, Innovation and Skills: Progress on Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and the Regional Growth Fund 9:30 am; The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Treasury: Macroprudential tools 10:00 am; The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Anthony Browne, Chief Executive Officer, British Bankers' Association, Adrian Coles OBE, Director General, Building Societies Association and Paul Smee, Director General, Council of Mortgage Lenders

Energy and Climate Change: Inclusion of international aviation and shipping emissions in carbon budgets 10:15 am; Room 17, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change; Andrew Herdman, Board Member, Air Transport Action Group, Dr Andy Jefferson, Programme Director, Sustainable Aviation, David Balston, Director of Safety and Environment, UK Chamber of Shipping, Dr Keith Allott, Head of Climate Change, WWF-UK and David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change; Gregory Barker MP, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change and Department for Transport

Culture, Media and Sport: Channel 4 Annual Report 2011 10:30 am; Room 5, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Lord Burns, Chairman, Channel 4, David Abraham, Chief Executive, Channel 4 and Anne Bulford, Chief Operating Officer, Channel 4

Human Rights: Equality and Human Rights Commission Pre-appointment hearing 10:30 am; Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

Welsh Affairs: Cross-border Road and Rail Connectivity 11:15 am; Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Jim Steer, Director, Greengauge 21 and Mark Barry, Consultant; Rt Hon Simon Burns MP, Minister of State, Department for Transport and Stephen Hammond MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport

Scottish Affairs: Blacklisting in Employment 11:30 am; Room 19, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: David Smith, Deputy Information Commissioner and David Clancy, Investigations Manager, Information Commissioner’s Office

Human Rights: The Justice and Security Bill 2:15 pm; Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: David Anderson QC

Foreign Affairs: The foreign policy implications of and for a separate Scotland 2:30 pm; The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Dr Jo Eric Murkens and Professor Robert Hazell, Professor of British Politics and Government, and Director of the Constitution Unit, University College London; Sir Jeremy Greenstock, GCMG and Professor Matthew Craven, Dean, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, SOAS

Home Affairs: Hillsborough Independent Panel Report 2:45 pm; Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: David Crompton, Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police ; Sheila Coleman, Hillsborough Justice Campaign; Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC and Margaret Aspinall, Jenni Hicks and Trevor Hicks, Hillsborough Family Support Group

Home Affairs: Independent Police Complaints Commission 3:45 pm; Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Lawrence Kershen QC and Bill Wood QC

Back Bench Business: Proposals for backbench debates 3:00 pm; Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Members of Parliament

Draft Communications Data Bill: Draft Communications Data Bill 3:00 pm; 4A

Witnesses: Sir Paul Kennedy, Interception of Communications Commissioner, Interception of Communications Commission and Joanna Cavan, Chief Inspector, Interception of Communications Commission; Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, ICO

Home Affairs: Leadership and standards in the police service 4:15 pm; Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: Keith Bristow QPM, Director General, National Crime Agency

Lords: Select Committees

Public Service and Demographic Change: Public Service and Demographic Change 9:30 am; Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 10.00am) Caroline Abrahams, Director of External Affairs, Age UK; Baroness Greengross, President and Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre; John Kennedy, Director of Care Services, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust; Professor Pat Thane, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, King’s College London and Fellow of the British Academy; and (at 11.15am) Professor Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology and Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University; Professor Philip Rees FRGS FBA CBE, Emeritus Professor, School of Geography, University of Leeds; and Simon Ross, Chief Executive, Population Matters.

Adoption Legislation: Adoption Legislation 10:00 am; Room 3A, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 10.15am) Gill Haworth, Chief Executive, and Naomi Angell, Legal Advisor, Intercountry Adoption Centre; and (at 11.15am) Lynn Charlton, Chief Executive, After Adoption.

Human Rights Joint Committee 10:00 am; Room 15, Palace of Westminster; Private meeting

Witnesses: (at 10.30am) Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve. Subject: Pre-Appointment hearing with the Government’s preferred candidate for the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Economic and Financial Affairs (EU Sub-Committee A): Reform of the EU Banking Sector 10:30 am; Room 3, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 10.45am) Mark Harding, Group General Counsel, Barclays; and Richard Kibble, Group Director, Strategy and Corporate Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland.

Science and Technology 10:30 am; Room 4, Palace of Westminster; Private meeting

Witnesses: (at 11.00am) Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office; and Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport. Subject: public procurement as a tool to stimulate innovation.

Human Rights Joint Committee: The Justice and Security Bill 2:00 pm; Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 2.15pm) David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of the Government’s terrorism legislation.

Draft Communications Data Bill Joint Committee: Draft Communications Data Bill 2:30 pm; Room 4A, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 3.00pm) Sir Paul Kennedy, Interception of Communications Commissioner, and Joanna Cavan, Chief Inspector, Interception of Communications Commission; and (at 4.00pm) Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner.

Communications: Private meeting 3:15 pm; Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Economic Affairs: The Economic Implications for the United Kingdom of Scottish Independence 3:30 pm; Room 1, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 3.35pm) Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.