The week in Westminster: March 21st – 25th
It’s Budget week.
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first ‘normal’ Budget statement at 12:30 GMT on Wednesday, after prime minister’s questions.
He will have paused from his last-minute preparations by answering questions on Tuesday in the regular Treasury questions session.
But the main event takes place the following day, as the chancellor seeks to move the debate on “from rescue to reform”.
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – education
Legislation – budget responsibility and national audit bill
Motion – members’ salaries
Adjournment debate – Crown Prosecution Service, NHS counter fraud and Cawston Park Hospital
Tuesday
Questions – Treasury
Ten minute rule motion – dangerous and reckless cycling (offences)
Legislation – Scotland bill
Adjournment debate – closure of driving test centres in Girvan and Cumnock
Wednesday
Questions – Northern Ireland, PMQs
Budget statement
Adjournment debate – Cheshunt Urgent Care Centre
Thursday
Questions -energy and climate change
Business statement – leader of the House
Budget debate
Adjournment debate – teaching of citizenship
LORDS
Monday
Questions – pig farmers, HMS Endurance, Somalia, Remploy
Legislation – fixed-term parliaments bill
Orders and regulations – Adoption of draft European Council Decision EUCO 33/10 relating to the stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro
Tuesday
Introduction – Lord Glendonbrook
Questions – sales of tenancy farms, arms trade, Great War centenary
Legislation – national insurance contributions bill
Legislation – European Union bill
Wednesday
Questions – Gary McKinnon, Video Recordings Act 2010, Welsh organ donations
Legislation – public bodies bill
Orders and regulations – Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure; Care of Cathedrals Measure; Mission and Pastoral Measure
Thursday
Questions – English language and integration, NHS reforms, ECHR
Debate – Government policies to promote enterprise, growth and rebalancing of the economy
Debate – European Union Committee report “Adapting to climate change: EU agriculture and forestry”
