The week in Westminster: June 27th – July 1st
Both Michael Heseltine and Tony Benn are giving evidence to select committees this week. What decade is this again?
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – Home Office
Debate – House of Lords reform
Adjournment debate – community orchards
Tuesday
Questions – justice
Ten minute rule motion – bail (amendment)
Debate – opposition day
Adjournment debate – TBA
Wednesday
Questions – Wales, PMQs
Ten minute rule motion
Adjournment debate – TBA
Thursday
Questions – environment, food and rural affairs
Business statement – leader of the House
Adjournment debate – TBA
LORDS
Monday
Questions – disability hate crime, armed forces, clinical excellence awards, wellbeing education
Debate – report on members leaving the Lords
Debate – report on working practices
Debate – improving corporate governance and accountability with respect to social and environmental issues
Tuesday
Questions – couriers and the Olympics, Europe Day, Parliament Act 1911 centenary
Legislation – localism bill
Orders and regulations – Carbon Budget Order 2011; Climate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2011
Wednesday
Legislation – Transport for London (supplemental toll provisions) bill
Questions – murder of Zahid Mubarek in HM Young Offender Institution Feltham, social welfare law, strategic health improvements in the NHS
Legislation – police reform and social responsibility bill
Thursday
Questions – Northern Rock, Polish EU presidency, Republic of Ireland and the Commonwealth
Legislation – localism bill
Short debate – female genital mutilation in the UK
Friday
Legislation – devolution (time) bill, Remembrance Sunday (closure of shops) bill, Parliament Square (management) bill
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
16:10 – Michael Heseltine, before communities and local government committee, on: Regeneration
Tuesday
10:00 – Bank of England governor Mervyn King, before Treasury committee, on: Bank of England May 2011 Inflation Report
10:30 – Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, before home affairs committee, on: The New Landscape of Policing
Thursday
10:00 – Tony Benn, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: The prospects for codifying—or not codifying—the UK Constitution
