Summary Agenda Tuesday 17 April 2012

2.30 pm

Prayers.

Afterwards

Private Business (without debate).

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, including at 3.15 pm Topical Questions.

3.30 pm

Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).

Afterwards

Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)-Motion for leave to introduce a Bill under the Ten minute rule (John Healey) (for up to 20 minutes).

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (Programme) (No. 3) (Motion) (without debate).

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill:   Consideration of Lords Amendments (may continue until 10.00 pm).

Statutory Instruments (Motions for approval) (without debate).

European Union Document (Motion) (without debate).

At the end of the sitting

Presentation of Public Petitions (without debate).

Adjournment Debate: Cigarette packaging and contraband cigarettes (Mr Geoffrey Robinson) (until 10.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

Sitting in Westminster Hall

General Debates:

9.30 am

Effect of the Budget on the economy of the North East (Ian Mearns).

11.00 am

Government support for rural communities (Simon Hart).

12.30 pm

Death in service inheritance tax and the case of Nigel Lawrence Thomas (Mr David Hanson).

1.00 pm

Modernisation of railway stations in small towns and cities (Stephen McPartland).

1.30 pm

Safety of looped blind cords (Paul Flynn) (until 2.00 pm).