The week in Westminster: July 18th – July 22nd
The phone-hacking scandal and parliament's clash with the Murdochs means this short final week before the summer recess is packed with incident.
Parliament is sitting for just three days this week before rising for the long summer recess. It will return on September 6th for a couple of weeks, before the three-week conference recess.
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – work and pensions
Motion – relating to national policy statements
Motion – to approve the appointment of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner for England
Adjournment debate – election petitions
Tuesday
Questions – Foreign Office
Ten minute rule motion – betting shops
Backbench business – matters to be raised before the forthcoming adjournment
Adjournment debate – green planting in the urban environment
LORDS
Monday
Legislation – fixed-term parliaments bill
Questions – Thames tunnel, Democratic republic of Congo, financial markets, apprenticeships
Legislation – supply and appropriate (main estimates) bill
Legislation – finance (no 3) bill
Debate – economic affairs committee report on finance bill 2011
Tuesday
Questions – Indonesia and West Papuan operation, southern Sudan, east Jersualem and the West Bank
Legislation – welfare reform bill
Legislation – police reform and social responsibility bill
Legislation – European Union bill
Wednesday
Questions – regional theatre, Lords reform consultation, News International inquiry
Legislation – localism bill
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
15:00 – Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes and higher education minister David Willetts, before business, innovation and skills committee, on: Future of higher education
Tuesday
Time TBC – News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, before culture, media and sport committee
