Order of Business Thursday 21 June 2012

+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.

House of Commons

Order of Business

Preliminary Business

Notice of Presentation of Bill

† indicates Government Business

† 1 SMALL CHARITABLE DONATIONS [No debate]

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

Bill to provide for the making of payments to certain charities and clubs in respect of certain gifts made to them by individuals; and for connected purposes.

Formal first reading: no debate or decision.

Main Business

Note: at 11.00 am the Speaker may interrupt the proceedings to permit Urgent Questions (if any), the Business Question to the Leader of the House and Ministerial Statements (if any) (Order of 13 June).

2 BACKBENCH BUSINESS [Until 2.30 pm]

WORK OF THE BRITISH-IRISH PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

Mr Laurence Robertson

Paul Murphy

That this House has considered the matter of the work of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly.

MIS-SELLING OF INTEREST RATE SWAP PRODUCTS TO SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES

Guto Bebb

Dr Thérèse Coffey

Mr Marcus Jones

Peter Aldous

Caroline Lucas

Caroline Nokes

Sandra OsborneDamian CollinsMr Graham Brady

Mr David Ruffley

That this House has considered the matter of the mis-selling of interest rate swap products to small and medium-sized businesses; notes the work undertaken by the Financial Services Authority in this respect; and calls for a prompt resolution of the matter.

Debate may continue until 2.30 pm (Order of 13 June 2012).

† 3 DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS DATA BILL (JOINT COMMITTEE)  [No debate after 2.30 pm]

Sir George Young

That this House concurs with the Lords Message of 28 May, that it is expedient that a Joint Committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider and report on any draft Communications Data Bill presented to both Houses.

That a Select Committee of six Members be appointed to join with the Committee appointed by the Lords to consider the draft Communications Data Bill.

That the Committee should report by 30 November 2012.

That the Committee shall have power-

(i) to send for persons, papers and records;

(ii) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House;

(iii) to report from time to time;

(iv) to appoint specialist advisers;

(v) to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom; and

That Mr Nicholas Brown, Michael Ellis, Dr Julian Huppert, Stephen Mosley, Craig Whittaker and David Wright be members of the Committee.

If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 2.30 pm.

(Note: The House will be adjourned no later than 2.30 pm, and there will be no adjournment debate (Order of 13 June).

COMMITTEES

PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEES

Further to consider the Bill.

Further to take evidence on the Bill.

Witnesses: Citizens Advice and Professor Sir John Vickers (Warden, All Souls College, Oxford) (until no later than 9.30 am); Law Society, Law Society of Scotland, Allen & Overy LLP, and Simpson Millar LLP (until no later than 10.25 am); Malcolm Nicholson (Reporting Panel Member, Competition Commission), City of London Law Society, and Professor Catherine Waddams (Professor of Regulation, University of East Anglia) (until no later than 11.25 am); RenewableUK, E3G, and Friends of the Earth (until no later than 12 noon); Local Government Association, Trading Standards Institute, West Yorkshire Joint Services, and British Retail Consortium (until no later than 1.15 pm); Sir David Walker, High Pay Centre, and Adrian Beecroft (until no later than 2.15 pm).

Further to consider the Bill.

DELEGATED LEGISLATION COMMITTEES

To consider the draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Authority to Carry) Regulations 2012.

To consider the draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2012.

SELECT COMMITTEES

Subject: Ensuring Standards in the Quality of Legislation.

Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO and Sir Nicholas Monck KCB, Better Government Initiative; Nat le Roux, Chairman of Trustees, The Constitution Society (at 10.45 am).

Subject: UK Special Representative for Climate Change.

Witness: John Ashton CBE, outgoing UK Special Representative for Climate Change, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Ministerial Statements to be made today

1Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment law.

2Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer: Charitable giving.

3Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer: Ecofin.

4Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer: Statutory residence test and reforms to ordinary residence.

5Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change: Post-Council statement–Energy Council, Luxembourg 15 June 2012.

6Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: New Bovine TB Eradication Advisory Group for England.

7Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Appointment of new judges and advocates general, including a new UK judge, to the European Court of Justice.

8Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Strengthening Britain’s diplomatic network in Latin America and the Caribbean.

9Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Agenda of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO).

General Committee Notices

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 10.30 am and 4.30 pm further to consider the Finance Bill (except Clauses 1, 4, 8, 189 and 209, Schedules 1, 23 and 33 and certain new clauses and new schedules).

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm and Thursday 28 June at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm further to consider the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm further to consider the Defamation Bill.

European Committee B will meet on Monday 25 June at 4.30 pm to consider European Union Documents No. 10834/12, relating to the Commission Communication: Action for Stability, Growth and Jobs, No. 10557/12 and Addendum, relating to the draft Council Recommendation on the United Kingdom’s 2012 national reform programme and delivering a Council opinion on the United Kingdom’s convergence programme for 2012–2017 and No. 10846/12, relating to the Commission Staff Working Document: In Depth Review for the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No. 1176/2011 on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances.

European Committee B will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 4.30 pm to consider the proposed draft Directive, deposited on 6 December 2011 by the Ministry of Justice, establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and repealing Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA.

European Committee B will meet on Wednesday 27 June at 8.55 am to consider European Union Documents No 14879/11 and Addenda 1 to 3, relating to the Commission Report on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests: Fight against fraud - Annual Report 2010, together with two unnumbered Reports from the European Court of Auditors dated 10 November 2011, relating to the Annual Report on the Activities Funded by the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth European Development Funds in the financial year 2010, and the Annual Report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2010.

The First Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 4.30 pm to consider the draft British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 and the draft Inland Waterways Advisory Council (Abolition) Order 2012.

The Second Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Tuesday 26 June at 4.30 pm to consider the draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Elections Order 2012.

The Third Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Wednesday 27 June at 2.30 pm to consider the draft Office of Qualifications and Examination Regulation (Determination of Turnover for Monetary Penalties) Order 2012.

The Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Thursday 28 June at 8.55 am to consider the draft Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (Abolition) Order 2012.

The Ninth Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Monday 25 June at 4.30 pm to consider the draft Statutory Auditors (Amendment of Companies Act 2006 and Delegation of Functions etc) Order 2012.