The week in Westminster: October 10th – October 14th
The health and social care bill returns for its latest stage of parliamentary scrutiny this week in the Lords, as MPs get back into the swing of the autumn political season after the conferences.
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – defence
Legislation – protection of freedoms bill
Adjournment debate – outsourcing of interpretation services by the Ministry of Justice
Tuesday
Legislation – London local authorities and Transport for London (no 2) bill
Questions – deputy prime minister, attorney-general
Ten minute rule motion – cooperative housing tenure
Legislation – protection of freedoms bill
Adjournment debate – future nuclear power production at Sellafield
Wednesday
Legislation – Transport for London (supplemental toll provisions) bill
Questions – Wales, PMQs
Ten minute rule motion – UK bioethanol industry
Opposition day debate
Adjournment debate – air passenger duty
Thursday
Questions – environment, food and rural affairs
Business statement – leader of the House
Backbench business – motions on handheld electronic devices in parliament, improving parliamentary scrutiny, ministerial statements and general debate on High Speed Two
Adjournment debate – housing for older people and the role of the Anchor Housing Association
Friday
Private members' bills – consumer credit (regulation and advice) bill, planning (grade one agricultural land protection) bill, and others
LORDS
Monday
Questions – changing media ownership rules in UK, tourism, RBS and Lloyds TSB shares, death penalty
Legislation – live music bill, armed forces bill, localism bill
Tuesday
Legislation – health and social care bill
Questions – small businesses, multiculturalism, ensuring that women fleeing gender-based persecution receive fair asylum decisions
Legislation – coinage (measurement) bill
Wednesday
Legislation – health and social care bill
Questions – work of Rural Payments Agency, gas supplies, health charities
Legislation – localism bill
Thursday
Questions – protection of human rights of ethnic Burmese people, multiple sclerosis treatments, UN International Year for People of African Descent
Debate – planning system changes
Debate – impact of government policy on universities
Debate – range of provisions and facilities available for general aviation
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
15:30: Independent Commission on Banking chair Sir John Vickers, before Treasury committee
Tuesday
11:00: Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe, before home affairs committee, on: Policing Large Scale Disorder, The work of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner
14:30: Health secretary Andrew Lansley, before health committee, on: public expenditure
Thursday
10:00: Constitutional reform minister Mark Harper, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: Individual Electoral Registration and Electoral Administration
