FORTHCOMING BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS

17 MARCH - 21 MARCH

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MONDAY 17 MARCH (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Enforcement of regulations for bicycle lights (L. Campbell of Croy); Independent experts employed in connection with the proposed White Paper on privatisation of London Underground (L. Clinton-Davis); Volumes of nuclear reactor waste (L. Jenkins of Putney); Healthcare Rights for Older People: the Ageism Issue report and discrimination in the NHS. (L. Stallard).

Legislation - Police (Property) Bill (committee stage); Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Bill (committee stage); Knives Bill (third reading); Education Bill (report stage - first day); Protection from Harassment Bill (third reading); Welsh Development Agency Bill (second reading).

TUESDAY 18 MARCH (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Civil service time and costs involved in preparation for London Underground privatisation (B. Symons of Vernham Dean); Expenses claims by members of Industrial Tribunals (L. McCarthy); Suspension of the Governor of Parkhurst Prison (L. McIntosh of Haringey); Outcome of the recent European Union Development Council meeting (L. Judd).

Legislation - Consolidated Fund Bill (all stages); Crime (Sentences) Bill (report stage - first day); Police (Health and Safety) Bill (committee stage); Local Government and Rating Bill (report stage).

WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Effects of financial penalty on state retirement pensioners spending up to six weeks in hospital (B. Fisher of Rednal); Forecast for inward investment and effects on unemployment (V. of Oxfuird); Local authority support for young drug addicts and alcoholics hostel (L. Peyton of Yeovil); Effects of award of NAAFI food supply contract to a private company (B. Turner of Camden).

Debates - Youth crime prevention initiatives (L. Elton); Ill health of armed forces and the farming community due to exposure to organophosphates (C. of Mar).

Delegated Legislation - Town and Country Planning (Compensation for Restrictions on Mineral Working and Mineral Waste Depositing) Regulations 1997; Pensions Measure - Motions for Approval.

Unstarred Question - Transport - The Way Forward and the suitability of the present rail links with the Port of Felixstowe for the growing container traffic (L. Marlesford).

ROYAL ASSENT

THURSDAY 20 MARCH (3.00pm)

Oral Questions - Status of Bletchley Park (V. Montgomery of Alamein); Management policies relating to women prisoners (B. Hayman); Overseas Development Administration's Fundamental Expenditure Review (L. Judd).

Legislation - Building Societies (Distributions) Bill (third reading); Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill (committee stage - third day).

Delegated Legislation - Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations etc) Act 1996 (Cessation of Section 3) Order 1997; Northern Ireland (Emergency and Prevention of Terrorism Provisions) (Continuance) Order 1997; Property (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 - Motions for Approval.

FRIDAY 21 MARCH (11.00am)

Legislation - Police (Property) Bill (third reading); Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Bill (report stage); Succession to the Crown Bill [HL] (second reading).

Delegated Legislation - Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) (No. 1) Order 1997; Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) (No. 2) Order 1997; Data Protection (Regulation of Financial Service etc) (Subject Access Exemption) (Amendment) Order 1997; Deregulations (Occasional Permissions) Order 1997; Deregulation (Casinos and Bingo Clubs: Debit Cards) Order 1997 - Motions for Approval.

Unstarred Question - Evidence of pilots' negligence in the Chinook helicopter crash in Scotland in 1994 (L. Chalfont).

PROVISIONAL FUTURE BUSINESS

MONDAY 24 MARCH

Legislation - Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Bill (third reading); National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [HL] (consideration of Commons amendments); Finance Bill (all stages); Education Bill (report stage - second day).

Unstarred Question - State of the law in Northern Ireland applying to the armed forces (L. Trefgarne).

TUESDAY 25 MARCH

Legislation - Police (Health and Safety) Bill (third reading); Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill (report stage - first day).

WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH

Debates - Investment plans and current standards of service of the recently privatised railway companies (B. Thomas of Walliswood).

THURSDAY 27 MARCH

Legislation - Crime (Sentences) Bill (report stage - second day).

HOUSE OF LORDS SELECT COMMITTEES: PUBLIC MEETINGS

Meetings of the following Committees (and their sub-committees) only are listed: Delegated Powers and Deregulation Committee; European Communities; Public Service; Science & Technology.

TUESDAY 18 MARCH

PUBLIC SERVICE, COMMITTEE ON 4.15pm

Evidence: From Sir Richard Wilson, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.

PROVISIONAL FUTURE BUSINESS

TUESDAY 25 MARCH

PUBLIC SERVICE, COMMITTEE ON 4.15pm

Evidence: From Mr Michael Bichard, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education and Employment.