The week in Westminster: June 3rd – June 7th
It's all about Monday this week. After that you may as well just pack up and go home. The Commons sees a spat over the energy bill, as Lib Dems kick up a fuss over a missing renewable energy target. Then in the Lords the gay marriage debate kicks off, horrifying liberals and those who believe in the directly elected clout of parliament's lower House… Maybe something to mention in Thursday morning's committee on Lords reform. Remember that?
COMMONS
Monday
Questions – communities and local government
Legislation – energy bill
Adjournment debate – regulation of timeshare contracts
Tuesday
Questions – deputy prime minister
Legislation – energy bill
Adjournment debate – sentencing for assaults on football referees
Wednesday
Questions – Northern Ireland
Prime minister's questions
Opposition day debate – badger cull
Adjournment debate – compensation for victims of the summer 2011 public disorder
Thursday
Questions – energy and climate change
Business statement – leader of the House
Backbench business – student visas, pollinators and pesticides
Adjournment debate – future commissioning arrangements of augmentative and alternative communication services
LORDS
Monday
Questions – student loans, part-time students, legal aid cuts, extremism and Islam
Legislation – marriage (same sex couples) bill
Motion – motion to decline to give the bill a second reading
Tuesday
Questions – East Coast Main Line, "flexibility in the fiscal framework", women's rights, child abuse images
Legislation – marriage (same sex couples) bill
Legislation – Hertfordshire County Council (Filming on Highways) Bill
Legislation – care bill
Short debate – Global fund on HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Wednesday
Questions – degenerative brain diseases, Burma, health and social care outcomes
Legislation – offender rehabilitation bill
Short debate – Burma
Thursday
Questions – abortion, the Order of the Companions of Honour, garden cities
Debate – economic and social consequences of tax evasion and avoidance
Debate – levels of unmet housing need
Debate – EU committee on the EU’s approach to migration and mobility
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Monday
16:30 – Universities and science minister David Willetts, before science and technology committee, on: clinical trials
Wednesday
15:00 – agriculture minister David Heath, before environment, food and rural affairs committee, on: food contamination
Thursday
10:00 – David Steel, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: House of Lords reform – what next?
