The week in Westminster: March 19th – 23rd
Parliamentary weeks don't get much busier than this.
In addition to this year's Budget on 2012 and the final push to get the health and social bill through its final legislative stages, the Queen will be addressing both Lords and MPs on Tuesday.
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – Home Office
Legislation – protection of freedoms bill
Motion – waste water national policy statement
Adjournment debate – future of shipbuilding
Tuesday
HM the Queen addresses both Houses of Parliament
Questions – deputy prime minister
Ten minute rule motion – use of powered wheelchairs (weight and age limit)
Legislation – health and social care bill
Adjournment debate – education projects in Nigeria
Wednesday
Questions – Cabinet Office
Prime minister's questions
Budget statement
Adjournment debate – job losses in the pharmaceutical industry
Thursday
Questions – culture, Olympics, media and sport
Business statement – leader of the House
Budget debate
Adjournment debate – electricity transmission in north Somerset
Friday
Budget debate
Adjournment debate – treatment of pancreatic cancer
LORDS
Monday
Questions – quantitative easing, accounting standards, family planning, Libya tribalism
Legislation – health and social care bill
Short debate – enhancing access to proper sanitation and safe water in developing countries
Tuesday
Questions – groceries and supermarkets, food waste, Commonwealth and the Diamond Jubilee
Legislation – legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill
Wednesday
Questions – cancer treatment effects, NHS reforms and HIV/Aids, criminal records bureau
Legislation – Scotland bill
Thursday
Questions – Convention on the Rights of the Child, Maldives, international criminal court
Debate – economy of the UK
Debate – mobility of healthcare professionals in the UK
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
16:30 – employment minister Chris Grayling, before work and pensions committee, on: the work programme
Tuesday
16:15 – Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, before foreign affairs committee, on: British foreign policy and the Arab Spring, the transition to democracy
