The week in Westminster: December 5th – December 9th
The economy pervades this week's topics for debate in parliament.
Chancellor George Osborne will be in the Commons chamber on Tuesday for Treasury questions before a more general debate takes place later in the afternoon.
He'll then be facing a more forensic grilling from MPs on the Treasury select committee on Wednesday.
We can expect a lot of interest on Monday in a backbench debate on UK extradition arrangements – with the case of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon in everyone's minds.
This week also sees some more odd subjects up for debate – including those pesky cyclists who use pavements rather than the road, who will be raised in the Lords on Thursday.
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – communities and local government
Backbench business – motion relating to ministerial statements, motion relating to UK extradition statements
Adjournment debate – Bonn conference and women in Afghanistan
Tuesday
Questions – Treasury
Ten minute rule motion – registration of commercial lobbying interests
Debate – the economy
Adjournment debate – disposal of short-life homes in Lambeth
Wednesday
Questions – international development
PMQs
Motion – appointment of chairman of National Audit Office
Motion – membership of the Speaker's Committee on the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
Motion – to approve a European document relating to European Sales Law
Adjournment debate – experimentation on animals
Thursday
Questions – business, innovation and skills
Business statement – leader of the House
Opposition day debate from SNP/Plaid Cymru
Adjournment debate – extending use of low-dose Naltrexone
LORDS
Monday
Questions – Nazi and Communist-stolen property in Poland, Palestinian statehood, HM Young Offender Institution Feltham, aerospace industry
Legislation – Remembrance Sunday (closure of shops) bill
Legislation – devolution (time) bill
Legislation – health and social care bill
Short debate – impact of digital technologies on the mind
Tuesday
Questions – phone-hacking, repatriation of powers from the EU, oral cancer detection
Legislation – protection of freedoms bill
Short debate – environmental and economic impact of feeding food waste to livestock
Wednesday
Questions – corporate governance, immigration, local authority cuts and the arts
Legislation – health and social care bill
Short debate – ensuring that the quality of teaching of school-age sport increases the levels of participation in sport in later life
Thursday
Questions – child language difficulties, Kosovo and Serbia, cyclists on pavements
Debate – development and retention of manufacturing industry in the UK
Debate – support available for persons with neurological conditions
Short debate – securing the future of the Citizens Advice Bureau in the 'big society'
Friday
Debate – Christians in the Middle East
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
14:15 – Max Mosley, Steve Coogan, Zac Goldsmith and Hugh Grant, before joint committee on privacy and injunctions
16:30 – Prime minister's national security adviser Sir Peter Ricketts, before national security strategy joint committee
Wednesday
14:15 – chancellor George Osborne, before Treasury committee, on: autumn statement
14:30 – defence secretary Philip Hammond, before defence committee
Thursday
10:00 – former parliamentarian Tony Benn, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: Mapping the path to codifying—or not codifying—the UK's constitution
