The Week in Westminster: 21-28 January 2013
Parliamentary Commission on banking standards sub-committee will continue its business this week, as it leaps straight into the good stuff on Monday morning with a panel on miss-selling and cross-selling. The committee was set up to deal with the Libor scandal which is already slipping into the grey sludge of yesterday’s newspapers as we speak.
However, there’s still enough lingering prurient interest in the squalid moral world of banking scandals to distract public attention away from the welfare uprating bill as it goes through the chamber once more, coinciding with a select committee hearing on personal independence payments (PIP), as well. Labour MPs remain trapped between a rock and an increasingly stony hard place over the landmine of benefits, with many of their core voters not only split, but also viewing it as a key issue. However, the Conservatives need to tread carefully; recent polling has shown that welfare cuts are not necessarily the instant vote winner that top sheet polling might suggest to a casual observer.
Look out for the second reading of the Green MP Caroline Lucas’ land value tax bill, a policy once advocated by business secretary Vince Cable, in 2010. Whatever the bill’s ultimate chance of success, the debate could be a refreshing springboard for a much-needed debate about modernising the tax system.
COMMONS
Monday 21 January 2013
Oral Questions – Education, including Topical Questions
Legislation – Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill – Committee of the whole House
Legislation – Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill – Report stage
Legislation – Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill – Third reading
Adjournment- Funding of the East Midlands Ambulance Service – John Mann
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Oral Questions – Foreign and Commonwealth, including Topical Questions
Ten Minute Rule Motion – Unduly Lenient Sentences (Right of Appeal) – Gareth Johnson
Motion – Consideration of an allocation of time motion
Legislation – Succession to the Crown Bill – Second reading
Legislation – Succession to the Crown Bill – Committee of the whole House
Adjournment – Performance of UKTI – Daniel Kawczynski
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Oral Questions – Northern Ireland
Prime Minister's Question Time
Ten Minute Rule Motion – Energy Efficiency (Houses in Multiple Occupation) – Dr Alan Whitehead
Debate – Opposition Day (15th allotted day) – subject to be announced
Adjournment – Access to postgraduate study and Oxford University – Hazel Blears
Thursday 24 January 2013
Oral Questions – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, including Topical Questions; Church Commissioners Public Accounts Commission and the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission
Business Statement – Leader of the House
Backbench Business (i) Reducing the Voting Age to 16 (ii) Holocaust Memorial Day
Adjournment – Capital funding for Worcester FE colleges – Mr Robin Walker
Friday 25 January 2013
Legislation – Offshore Gambling Bill – Second reading – Matthew Hancock
Legislation – Micro Businesses and Energy Contract Roll-Over Bill – Second reading – Caroline Lucas
Legislation – Local Services (Planning) Bill – Second reading – Dr Julian Huppert
Legislation – Land Value Tax Bill – Second reading – Caroline Lucas
Legislation – House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill [HL] – Second reading – Mrs Eleanor Laing
Legislation – Regulation of Bailiffs Bill – Second reading – Mr Jim Cunningham
Legislation – Suicide (Prevention) Bill – Second reading – Dr William McCrea
Adjournment – High Speed 2 (Proposed Marshalling Yard, Birmingham) – Mr Liam Byrne
LORDS
Monday 21 January 2013
Introduction(s) – John Nash
Oral Questions – Tackling global hunger in 2013 and beyond, including at this year’s G8 summit – Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
Changes to government support for onshore wind farms – Baroness Quin
Decision on the Dilnot Commission’s recommendations on capping the cost of adult social care – Lord Warner
Flooding by sewage and storm water at Camp Liberty, and conditions at the camp – Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
Legislation – European Union (Croation Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill – Third reading – Baroness Warsi
Legislation – European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL] – Third reading – Baroness Warsi
Legislation – Public Service Pensions Bill – Committee of the whole House (Day 3) – Lord Sassoon
Short Debate – Security, humanitarian and human right situation on the Korean Peninsula – Lord Alton of Liverpool
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Oral Questions – Representations to the government of Sudan regarding bombardment of civilians and denial of access to humanitarian aid – Baroness Cox
Significant increase in the number of children contacting Childline about suicide and self-harm – Baroness Benjamin
Changing the Bank of England’s target from inflation to nominal gross domestic product – Lord Barnett
Extent of helicopter flights over central London – Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Legislation – Hertfordshire County Council (Filming on Highways Bill – First reading
Legislation – Growth and Infrastructure Bill – Committee of the whole House – Baroness Hanham
Short Debate – Promoting freedom of religion and conscience internationally as a fundamental human right – The Lord Bishop of Guildford
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Oral Questions – Children and young people in the care of the state – Earl of Listowel
Export competitiveness and import substitution in view of the UK’s current trade deficit – Lord Vinson
Ensuring that financial settlements for local government funding are fair – Lord Bishop of LiverpoolLegislation
Electoral Registration and Administration Bill – Report stage – Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Legislation – Electoral Registration and Administration Bill – Third reading – Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Short Debate – Supporting a peace process between India and Pakistan to resolve all outstanding disputes – Lord Ahmed
Thursday 24 January 2013
Oral Questions – Postponing the introduction of the English Baccalaureate in schools – Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Effect of the proposed introduction of the Personal Independence Payment – Lord Alton of Liverpool
Basis for the Government decision not to increase provision for asylum support – Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
Debate – Role of communities, the arts and creative industries in delivering an Olympics legacy – Lord Mawson
Debate – Prospects for multi-lateral nuclear disarmament and the contribution which Britain could make – Lord Ramsbotham
Debate – EU Committee Report on the European Banking Union – Lord Harrison
Orders and Regulations – Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 – Baroness Verma
Friday 25 January 2013
No business has been announced for this day.
