Previous business
Thursday, 25 October 2012

Commons: Main Chamber   See this day →

• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, including Topical Questions; Church Commissioners Public Accounts Commission and the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission Oral Questions; 9:30 am
• Leader of the House Business Statement
• (i) International Development Select Committee, Publication of report on DFID’s work in Afghanistan (20 minutes) (ii) Debate on a motion relating to the badger cull Backbench Business
• Birmingham City Council Housing Department (case of Nicola Shipley) – Roger Godsiff Adjournment debate

Lords: Main Chamber   See this day →

• Consultation on the workings of the Blue Badge Scheme for the disabled – Lord Harrison Oral Questions; 11:00 am
• Why is the Car and Despatch Agency car allocated to BIS not manufactured in the UK – Lord Hoyle Oral Questions
• Rationale for the reduction of the local overseas allowance (LOA) in relation to Operation Kipion – Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe Oral Questions
• Removal of hospital equipment and the review into children’s congenital heart services in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland – the Bishop of Leicester Oral Questions
• Relationship between media standards and media regulation - Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve Debate
• Standards of service for looked-after children and response to changes in residential childcare in the light of recent child protection failures – the Earl of Listowel Debate
• Treatment of homosexual men and women in the developing world – Lord Lexden Short Debate
• Estimated Rising Time; 6:00 pm

Commons: Westminster Hall   See this day →

• Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people, 7th Report of the Work and Pensions Committee, Session 2010-12, HC 1493 and the Government response, Session 2012-13, HC 105 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Commons: General Committees

• Small Charitable Donations Bill Committee 11:30 am; Room 9, Palace of Westminster

Commons: Select Committees

Welsh Affairs: Support for Armed Forces Veterans 9:15 am; National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff

Witnesses: Richard Hunt Foundation; Welsh Government and Welsh Local Government Association

Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards: Banking Standards 10:15 am; The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Mr Martin Wheatley CB, Managing Director of the Consumer and Markets Business Unit, FSA

Lords: Select Committees

Economic Affairs: The Economic Implications for the United Kingdom of Scottish Independence 9:00 am

Witnesses: Committee visit to Scotland.

Draft Communications Data Bill Joint Committee: Draft Communications Data Bill 9:00 am

Witnesses: Committee visit to Everything Everywhere offices.

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Small and Medium Sized Enterprises 10:30 am; Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses: (at 10.40am) Emerson Roberts, Sales and Marketing Director, Brompton; Andy Mears, Group Sales Director, Deltex Medical Limited; and (at 11.40am) Steve Box, Head of Trade, Receivables Finance Europe, HSBC; Stephen Pegge, Director SME & Corporate Communications, Lloyds Banking Group; Simon Nicholson, Head of International and Trade, Barclays Business; and Peter Ibbetson, Chairman of Small Business, Royal Bank of Scotland.