Tuesday 23rd February 2010
House of Commons
Written Ministerial Statements
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Business, Innovation and Skills).
UK trade and investment spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Business, Innovation and Skills).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Cabinet Office).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10: UK Statistics Authority (Cabinet Office).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10: Charity Commission (Cabinet Office).
Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval: Committee annual summary report 2008-09 (Children, Schools and Families).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10: Changes to departmental expenditure limits and administration costs budgets (Children, Schools and Families).
Government Actuary's Department: Departmental expenditure limits and administration budgets (Treasury).
HM Revenue and Customs: Departmental expenditure limits and administration budgets (Treasury).
HM Treasury resource departmental expenditure limits and administration budget changes (Treasury).
National Savings and Investments: Changes to departmental expenditure limits (Treasury).
Departmental expenditure limit 2009-10: Department for Communities and Local Government (Communities and Local Government).
Departmental expenditure limits and administration budget for 2009-10 (Culture, Media and Sport).
MoD Votes A annual estimate 2010-11 (Defence).
Spring supplementary estimate (Defence).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 changes to departmental expenditure limit and administrative budget (Energy and Climate Change).
Defra's new evidence investment strategy (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
Spring supplementary estimate–Departmental expenditure limit budget changes (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
Six-monthly report on Hong Kong, 1 July to 31 December 2009 (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs).
Update on developments in Sri Lanka (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs).
Consultation on services for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Health).
Department of Health's and the Food Standards Agency’s departmental expenditure limits and administration cost limits for 2009-10 (Health).
Home Office spring supplementary estimate - Departmental expenditure limit (Home Office).
Outcome of the informal meeting of EU Development Ministers, Segovia, Spain, 17 and 18 February 2010 (International Development).
Spring supplementary estimate (International Development).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Justice).
Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Executive changes to departmental expenditure limit funding for 2009-10 (Northern Ireland).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Scotland).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Solicitor General).
Departmental expenditure limit 2009-10 (Transport).
Expenditure limit resulting from the spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Wales).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10: Government Equalities Office (Women and Equality).
Spring supplementary estimate 2009-10 (Work and Pensions).
Main business
2.30pm: Health questions (topical questions at 3.15pm).
Ten minute rule motion – Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards) Bill (Tony Lloyd, Lab, Manchester Central).
Motion to refer the seventh report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights to the Committee on Standards and Privileges.
Remaining stages of the Children, Schools and Families Bill.
Motion to approve the draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order 2010 (no debate).
Motion to approve the draft Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Cap) Order 2010 (no debate).
Motion to approve the draft Child Trust Funds (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (no debate).
Motion to approve the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2010 (no debate).
Motion to approve the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Code of Practice) Order 2010 (no debate).
Motion to approve the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Extension of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) Order 2010 (no debate).
Adjournment Debate
Myalgic encephalopathy (Annette Brooke, LD, Mid Dorset and North Poole).
Westminster Hall
9.30-11.00am: Pensioner poverty (Jo Swinson, LD, East Dunbartonshire).
11.00-12.30pm: Future of the British Pub (Nigel Evans, Con, Ribble Valley).
12.30-1.00pm: Support for UK manufacturing industries (Michael Moore, LD, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk).
1.00-1.30pm: Foreign registered lorries (Austin Mitchell, Lab, Great Grimsby).
1.30-2.00pm: Road traffic accident compensation and sentencing (Rob Wilson, Con, Reading East).
Select Committees
Treasury Committee (9.15am, Grimmond room).
Subject: (i) Bank of England February 2010 Inflation Report (ii) Financial institutions - too important to fail?
Witnesses: (i) Mervyn King, governor, Charles Bean, deputy governor, Spencer Dale, executive director and chief economist, and Professor David Miles and Kate Barker, external members of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England (ii) Alfredo Sáenz, vice chairman and chief executive, Santander (at 10.45am).
Environmental Audit Committee (10.20am, room 8).
Subject: Air quality.
Witness: Jim Fitzpatrick MP, minister of state, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Home Affairs Committee (10.30am, Wilson room).
Subject: The work of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Witnesses: Nick Hardwick, chairman, Independent Police Complaints Commission, and John Crawley.
International Development Committee (1.00pm, Thatcher room).
Subject: DFID’s assistance to Zimbabwe.
Witness: Gareth Thomas MP, minister of state, Department for International Development.
North West Regional Committee (2.15pm, room 6).
Subject: The future of the nuclear industry in the North West.
Witnesses: Julie Maykels, North West regional manager, National Skills Academy for Nuclear, Professor Colin Boxall, University of Lancaster (on behalf of the North West Universities Association), Mike Graham, national secretary, Prospect, and Rupert Steele, director - Regulation, Scottish Power; Fergus McMorrow, chief executive, Copeland Borough Council, David Hayes, energy consultant, Cumbria Vision, and Richard Leafe, chief executive, Lake District National Park (at 3.15pm); Martin Forwood, Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment, and Councillor Ralph Pryke, Nuclear Free Local Authorities England Forum (at 4.00pm).
South East Regional Committee (4.15pm, room 8).
Subject: Housing in the South East.
Witnesses: Partnership for Urban South Hampshire, Gravesham Borough Council, and Oxford City Council; Home Builders Federation, People and Places, and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (at 5.15pm); Campaign to Protect Rural England, South East Housing Coalition, South East Forum for Sustainability, and South East Forum on Ageing (at 6.00pm).
Justice Committee (4.15pm, Wilson room).
Subject: (i) Electoral Commission (ii) Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Civil Law Reform Bill.
Witnesses: (i) Jenny Watson, chair, Electoral Commission (ii) Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and Association of British Insurers (at 5.15pm).
Grand Committee
East of England Regional Grand Committee (9.00am, room 14).
Subject: Priorities for a future regional strategy.
Witnesses: Communities minister Barbara Follett MP
General and Public Bill Committees
European Committee B (4.30pm, room 10).
To consider European Union Documents Nos. 9494/09 and Addenda 1 and 2 and 15162/09 relating to Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Alternative Investment Fund Managers.
Crime and Security Bill Committee (10.30am and 4.00pm, room 12).
Further to consider the Bill.
First Delegated Legislation Committee (10.30am, room 9).
To consider the draft Access to the Countryside (Coastal Margin) (England) Order 2010.
Second Delegated Legislation Committee (10.30am, room 9).
To consider the draft CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010.
Third Delegated Legislation Committee (10.30am, room 5).
To consider the draft Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2010.
Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (4.30pm, room 9).
To consider the draft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.
Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee (4.30pm, room 11).
To consider the draft Jobseeker’s Allowance (Lone Parents) (Availability for Work) Regulations 2010.
Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee (4.30pm, room 14).
To consider the draft Health Protection (Part 2A Orders) Regulations 2010, the draft Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) Regulations 2010 and the draft Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No. 2) Order 2010.
European Committee B (4.30pm, room 10).
To consider European Union Documents Nos. 9494/09 and Addenda 1 and 2 and 15162/09 relating to Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Alternative Investment Fund Managers.
House of Lords
Starred Questions
2.30pm
How they will ensure that all postal ballots can be issued and returned in the 11 days between nominations of candidates and the elections on 6 May (Lord Roberts of Llandudno);
What assessment they have made of the availability and quality of retinopathy screening for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic patients (Lord Harrison);
What action they will take about courts awarding substantial damages against people who have used the official “form 4” obtainable from the HM Courts Service website to complain about a bailiff (Lord Lucas).
Topical question - What representations they have made to the government of Israel about holding up construction materials for United Nations-sponsored projects for social housing and for public sanitation (Baroness Williams of Crosby).
Main business
Motion to refer the following draft orders and regulations to a Grand Committee:
- Electronic Commerce Directive (Hatred against Persons on Religious Grounds or the Grounds of Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2010;
- Data Protection (Monetary Penalties) Order 2010;
- Personal Accounts Delivery Authority Winding Up Order 2010;
- National Employment Savings Trust Order 2010;
- Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010;
- European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Stabilisation and Association Agreement) (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Order 2010;
- Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) Regulations 2010;
- Health Protection (Part 2A Orders) Regulations 2010;
- Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010.
Motion to approve the following draft orders and regulations:
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Directed Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Order 2010;
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2010;
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Extension of Authorisation Provisions: Legal Consultations) Order 2010;
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data) Order 2010;
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Code of Practice) Order 2010.
- Baroness Hamwee has tabled a motion of regret concerning the above orders.
Second reading of the Financial Services Bill.
Grand Committee
3.30pm: Consideration of the Draft Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1).
Lords Committees
Kent County Council (Filming on Highways) Bill [HL] Unopposed Bill Committee (11.00am, room 3).
Subject: To consider the Bill.
London
Business Management and Administration Committee
Location: City Hall
Time: 10.00 am
Confirmation Hearings Committee
Location: City Hall
Time: 3.30 pm
Scotland
In plenary
The Scottish Parliament is not sitting in plenary today.
In committee
European and External Relations Committee (10.00am, room 6)
Subject: Treaty of Lisbon.
Witnesses: Donald Henderson, deputy director Europe and head of SG EU Office, Vanessa Glynn, head of Unit, Europe Division, and Paul Cackette, Scottish Government Law Division, Scottish Government; Sir David Edward.
Subject: EU 2020 Strategy.
Witnesses: Stephen Boyd, assistant secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress; Duncan Botting, executive chair, Scottish European Green Energy Centre; Vivienne Brown, head of Education and Qualifications, Skills Development Scotland; Morag Keith, business manager, West of Scotland Colleges’ Partnership; Peter Kelly, member of Policy Committee, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, and; Donald MacInnes, chief executive, Scotland Europa, Scottish Enterprise.
Justice Committee (10.00am, room 1)
Committee meeting in private to consider the Legal Services (Scotland) Bill.
Equal Opportunities Committee (11.00am, room 2)
Subject: Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill.
Rural Affairs and Environment Committee (1.30pm, Thurso)
Subject: Crofting Reform (Scotland) Bill.
Witnesses: Alistair Maciver, Crofter, Rogart, John MacKenzie, Crofter, Assynt, Nickie May, Crofter, Orkney, Jim McPherson, Crofter, Caithness and Iain Maciver, Estate Factor, The Stornoway Trust; Drew Ratter, convener, Commissioner Northern Isles and Caithness, and Nick Reiter, chief executive, Crofters Commission.
Finance Committee (2.00pm, room 2)
Subject: Financial Memorandum of the Forth Crossing Bill.
Witness: Frazer Henderson, Bill Team Leader, Transport Scotland; David Dow, Finance Team Leader, Transport, Scottish Government; Sharon Fairweather, finance director, Sharon Fitzgerald, Commission procurement and contract advisor, Mike Glover, Commission project manager, and John Howison, interim project director for the Forth Replacement Crossing, Transport Scotland.
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee (2.00pm, room 2)
Subject: The Draft CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010.
Witnesses: Stewart Stevenson MSP, minister for transport, infrastructure and climate change, John Holmes, branch head, Eric Baster, policy manager, climate change, emissions tRosie Telford, policy analyst, climate change Acts: Implementation, and Stuart Foubister, divisional solicitor, Solicitors Food and Environment Division, Scottish Government.
Subject: The A96 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Trunk Road Order 2010, A956 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Special Road Scheme 2010, the A956 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Trunk Road Order 2010, the A90 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) (Craibstone Junction) Special Road Scheme 2010, the A90 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Special Road Scheme 2010, and the A90 (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Trunk Road Order 2010.
Witnesses: Stewart Stevenson MSP, minister for transport, infrastructure and climate change, Caroline Lyon, head of solicitors, Transport, Culture and Procurement Division, Transport Scotland, and Jim Vance, head of design and development, Transport Scotland, Scottish Government; Robert Galbraith, director of operations, and Dr Pete Gilchrist, divisional director, Jacobs UK Ltd.
Subject: Forth Crossing Bill - Stage 1.
Witnesses: Tom Hart, vice president, Scottish Association for Public Transport; Lawrence Marshall, chair, ForthRight Alliance; George Mair, director, Scotland, Confederation of Passenger Transport UK; and Steve Walker, operations director, Stagecoach.
Subordinate Legislation Committee (2.15pm, room 6)
Subject: To consider subordinate legislation.
Wales
In Plenary
1.30pm: Questions to the first minister.
Followed by: Business statement and announcement.
Followed by: Legislative statement by the minister for the environment, sustainability and housing on the proposed Waste (Wales) Measure.
Followed by: Motion to approve the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.
Followed by: Motion to approve the Carbon Reduction Commitment - UK Order in Council.
Followed by: Motion on the Proposed Playing Fields (Community Involvement in Disposal Decisions) (Wales) Measure.
Followed by: Debate on Deep Rural Areas.
Followed by: Debate on Sustainable Development Indicators.
In committee
Petitions Committee (9.00am, room 1)
Subject: Wales Peace Institute.
Witnesses: Lead petitioners.
Subject: P-03-243 Withdraw from the West Cheshire / North East Wales Sub-Regional Strategy.
Witness: Minister for business and budgets.
Subject: P-03-262 Wales Peace Institute.
Witness: Flemish Peace Institute.
Children and Young People Committee (9.30am, room 2)
Subject: Inquiry into safe places to hang out.
Witnesses: Melanie Blake, core development manager, Funky Dragon, Guto Davies, Anglesey Funky Dragon, Tom Childs, Powys Funky Dragon, Jessica Simmons, Conwy Funky Dragon, Victoria Madden, Merthyr Funky Dragon; Chris Llewelyn, director of Lifelong Learning, Leisure and Information and Naomi Alleyne, director of Equalities and Social Justice, Welsh Local Government Association; Huw Jones, chief executive and Anne Hamilton, head of People and Programme Development, Sports Council of Wales.
Northern Ireland
In Plenary
10.30am: Executive Committee Business - Consideration stage of the Budget Bill.
Followed by: Final stage of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill.
Followed by: Motion to approve the Draft CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010.
Followed by: Question time - Environment; Enterprise, Trade and Investment.
Followed by: Committee business - motion to approve the report on the inquiry into public procurement policy and practice in Northern Ireland.
Followed by: Private members' business debate on on dementia research (A Lo, K McCarthy, M O'Neill, J Wells and M Brady).
Followed by: Adjournment debate on race tracks at Nutts Corner (D Kinahan).
In Committee
Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development (13.30pm, room 30) (Full agenda).
Subject: Presentation on the Common Fisheries Policy.
Witnesses: Kenneth Patterson, Adrian Coffee, Dennis Jones and Jim Hill.
Subject: The Foyle and Carlingford Area (Angling) (Amendment No 2) Regulations 2010, the Foyle and Carlingford Area (Conservation of smelt, shad and lamprey) Regulations 2010 and the Foyle Area (Control of Fishing) (Amendment) Regulations 2010.
Witnesses: Paul Moore, principal officer;, Stanley Thorpe, legislation manager, John McCartney, director of conservation and protection and Barry Fox, director of aquaculture, Loughs Agency.
Subject: Re-opening of the Countryside Management and Organic Farming Schemes.
Witnesses: Malcolm Beatty, assistant secretary, Sam Kennedy, senior principal officer and Richard Crowe, agriculture inspector grade 1, DARD.
Committee on Procedures (2.00pm, room 135) (Full agenda).
Subject: Standing orders – Policing and justice
Press Releases, Speeches and Conferences
Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on education, he will pledge to create "chains" of world-class schools as he bids to shift the focus back to policy after the bullying row.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband delivers a speech on 'Empowering government' at Demos.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson holds a meeting of the Regional Economic Council and speaks on government measures to promote economic growth in the regions.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham publishes a chest disease care and treatment strategy.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls is expected to announce the first successful organisations accredited as school groups or providers under the new accreditation system.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn addresses the National Farmers' Union annual conference. Other speakers include shadow environment secretary Nick Herbert and Environment Agency chairman Lord Chris Smith.
Cabinet Office Minister Tessa Jowell and shadow energy secretary Greg Clark are among the speakers at the National Council for Voluntary Organisation annual conference in London.
Scotland Secretary Jim Murphy delivers a Progress lecture.
Wales Secretary Peter Hain is among the speakers addressing the launch of a rally campaigning against the BNP.
Transport Minister Sadiq Khan addresses the Living Streets Active Travel conference in London.
Former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis is among the speakers at the Institute of Directors state of the economy conference.
Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith hosts a Centre for Social Justice seminar on gangs in Britain.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg participates in a question and answer event hosted by the Metro.
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable delivers a keynote speech outlining party plans for the banking and financial services industries.
Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson Tim Farron addresses the National Farmers' Union annual conference as it continues in Birmingham.
Former Prime Minister John Major is guest speaker at a Conservative Party fundraiser for marginal seats.
Richard Curtis and Jeffery Sachs address an RSA event on the case for a financial transaction tax.
Naomi Phillips of the British Humanist Association discusses with ePolitix.com the implications of the Children, Schools and Families Bill ahead of its remaining stages in the Commons.
The Law Commission launches its consultation on adult social care in England and Wales.
The Skills Commission launches its inquiry into teacher training in vocational education.
UK Skills was invited to present evidence to the Skills Commission on its finding and recommendations for buidling the capacity of vocational teachers.
An ICM poll for the Guardian found support for the Conservatives down 3 points, at 37 per cent, while Labour were up 1 point from last month at 30 per cent and the Liberal Democrats were on 20 per cent.
A YouGov survey for the Sun put the Conservatives on 39 per cent, Labour on 33 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 17 per cent.
Reports and Statistics
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes a report on services for people with rheumatoid arthritis.
The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee publishes a report on the future of Britain's energy networks.
The House of Commons Defence Committee publishes a report on the Ministry of Defence's annual report and accounts.
The Commons Business Innovation and Skills Committee publishes its report on broadband.
The All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group publishes a report suggesting Whitehall appears biased against modern tram schemes.
The Skills Commission publishes a report suggesting vocational education must be revamped and its teachers given the respect they deserve.
The Electoral Commission publishes a report on the Glasgow North East by-election, it calls for a review of the rules governing vacancies in the House of Commons after voters in the constituency were left without an MP for more than 100 days
The chief inspector of prisons publishes the annual report on the state of UK prisons.
The United Nations launches its International Drugs Control report is published.
The Francis review into mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is published.
The British Medical Association publishes a poll suggesting four out of 10 junior doctors are working on understaffed rotas.
The British Bankers Association releases figures for secured and unsecured lending during January.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change publishes the weekly fuel prices.
The Welsh Assembly Government publishes statistics on NHS dental services, delayed transfers of care.
Communities and Local Government publishes the English housing survey.
The Scottish Government publishes the Scottish survey of achievement and homicide statistics.
The Information Centre for Health and Social Care publishes NHS dental statistics for England.
The Department for Work and Pensions publishes provider led pathways to work official statistics.
The National Health Service in Scotland publishes statistics on delayed discharges in NHS Scotland, waiting times, ethnic data collection, alcohol and STIs.
The Office for National Statistics publishes statistics public sector net borrowing, financial statistics, quarterly population estimates, deaths figures and pension trends, consumer prices, the economic and labour market review and price index numbers for current cost accounting.
