BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
13 - 17 JANUARY 1997

MONDAY 13 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Transport; Lord President of the Council

Madam Speaker's Statement - Use of crowned portcullis emblem

Legislation - Crime (Sentences) Bill, Report stage (New clauses negatived on division. Debate adjourned)

TUESDAY 14 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Defence; Prime Minister

Ten Minute Rule Bill - Bull Bars (Prohibition) (Mr Paul Flynn) (Motion for leave to bring in agreed to, no division)

Legislation - Finance Bill, 2nd Reading (Amendment by Mr Tony Blair, declining to give the Bill a second reading, negatived on division. Motion agreed to on division)

Business Statement

Adjournment Debate - Mr David Lidington on the local government settlement for Buckinghamshire

WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY

The House sat at 9.30 am

Private Members' Debates

Sir Michael Marshall on pay deductions from British prisoners-of-war in Germany and Italy, 1939-45; Mr Kevin McNamara on bus employees' pensions; Mr David Porter on welfare of pensioners; Mr William O'Brien on sustainable waste management; Mr Nigel Evans on tourism in the North West

The sitting was suspended from 2.00- 2.30pm

Oral Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Statement - E. coli (Pennington Report) (Mr Michael Forsyth)

Ten Minute Rule Bill - Overseas Development Co-operation (Mr Hugh Bayley) (Motion for leave to bring in, agreed to, no division)

Legislation - Crime (Sentences) Bill, remaining stages (New clauses negatived on division and withdrawn. Amendment by Mr Llwyd negatived on division. Other amendments withdrawn, agreed to and negatived without division. Motion for Third Reading by Mr Michael Howard agreed to, on division)

Adjournment Debate - Dr John Reid on control of firearms (case of Thomas McIntyre)

THURSDAY 16 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Treasury; Prime Minister

Business Statement

Legislation - Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Bill, remaining stages (Amendments debated and withdrawn. Motion for Third reading by Mr Richard Ottaway agreed to, no division)

Adjournment Debate - Mr Harold Elletson on Government policy towards North Korea

FRIDAY 17 JANUARY

The Bulletin goes to press before the actual proceedings on Friday are known

Death of a Member - Iain Mills Esq, MP (Meriden)

Private Members' Bills

Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse); Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor); United Nations Personnel; Breeding and Sale of Dogs; Police (Property); Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise); Representation of the People (Amendment); Land Registration [HL] (2nd Readings)

Adjournment Debate - Mr Terry Lewis on the criminal justice system in Salford

FORTHCOMING BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
20 - 24 JANUARY 1997

MONDAY 20 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Wales; Attorney General

Legislation - Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill, remaining stages

Adjournment Debate - Mr Michael Alison on coal mining subsidence in North Yorkshire and the work of the Government's subsidence adviser

TUESDAY 21 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Health; Prime Minister

Ten Minute Rule Bill - United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum) (Mrs Teresa Gorman)

Debate - On the state of the National Health Services (3rd allotted Opposition Day)

Delegated Legislation - Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order

Adjournment Debate - Mr William O'Brien on Pinderfields Hospital

WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY

The House will sit at 9.30 am

Private Members' Debates

Mr George Mudie on intensive care bed provision in NHS; (11.00 am) Mr Mark Wolfson on St. Helena; (12.30 pm) Lynne Jones on English House Condition Survey 1991 (Energy Reports); (1.00 pm) Sir Peter Fry on Renegotiation of United States-United Kingdom Air Service Agreement; (1.30 pm) Mr Matthew Taylor on unemployment and poverty in Cornwall.

The sitting will be suspended until 2.30 pm

Oral Questions - Trade and Industry

Ten Minute Rule Bill - Building Societies (Distribution) (Mr Douglas French)

Legislation - Finance Bill (Clauses 40, 62, 68, 82, 92, Schedules 7, 13), consideration in Committee

Adjournment Debate - Mr Allan Stewart on Family Mediation Scotland

THURSDAY 23 JANUARY

Oral Questions - Home Office; Prime Minister

Business Statement

Legislation - Finance Bill, completion of consideration in Committee

Legisaltion - Local Government and Rating Bill, remaining stages

Adjournment Debate - Mr Harry Barnes on closure of Chesterfield Tribune Suite

FRIDAY 24 JANUARY

Private Members' Bills

Consideration of Private Members' Bills may include a lengthy debate on the first-named Bill and sometimes debate also on those named subsequently. These Bills and, without debate, any not reached by 2.30pm may go through the stage named, and further stages, if objections are not made.

Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons); Road Traffic (Reduction); Criminal Evidence (Amendment); General Teaching Council (England and Wales); Policyholders Protection; War Widows and Pensioners (Equal Treatment); Disabled Persons and Carers (Short-Term Breaks); Abortion (Amendment); Companies (Millennium Computer Compliance), Second Readings

Adjournment Debate - Mr Andrew Rowe on accessible housing for disabled and elderly people