Notes:
* indicates a question for oral answer.
[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.
Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer.
Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.
+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
| Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills |
| *1 |
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many grammar schools exist in England and Wales; and what the number was a year ago.
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(
89206
) |
| *2 |
Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of up-front tuition fees on access to higher education.
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|
(
89207
) |
| *3 |
Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action he will take to help reduce teacher shortages in Essex.
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|
|
(
89208
) |
| *4 |
Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps he is taking to tackle poor pupil behaviour.
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|
|
(
89209
) |
| *5 |
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proposals he has to increase funding available for the further and higher education sectors.
|
|
|
(
89210
) |
| *6 |
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the financing of universities.
|
|
|
(
89211
) |
| *7 |
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the impact of pay rates on the scale of migration of teachers between further education and schools.
|
|
|
(
89213
) |
| *8 |
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the role of phonics in the teaching of reading in the Government's English Key Stage 2 literacy strategy.
|
|
|
(
89214
) |
| *9 |
Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has for reviewing standards in LEA areas with selective secondary education systems.
|
|
|
(
89215
) |
| *10 |
Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much the increases in national insurance on teachers' salaries will cost, expressed on a per pupil basis, in the next financial year.
|
|
|
(
89216
) |
| *11 |
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the funding of higher education institutions.
|
|
|
(
89217
) |
| *12 |
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the procedures for satisfying criteria for the grant of university titles to higher education institutions.
|
|
|
(
89218
) |
| *13 |
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the Government's policy regarding university top-up fees.
|
|
|
(
89219
) |
| *14 |
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on university top-up fees.
|
|
|
(
89220
) |
| *15 |
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to change the Government's targets for students entering higher education.
|
|
|
(
89221
) |
| *16 |
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent research he has commissioned into truancy.
|
|
|
(
89222
) |
| *17 |
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on progress with the Sure Start scheme.
|
|
|
(
89223
) |
| *18 |
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on progress with the education and behaviour of children excluded from mainstream schooling.
|
|
|
(
89224
) |
| *19 |
Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the analysis he has made of the degree to which the provision of education and training will match the economic demand for qualifications in the next 10 years.
|
|
|
(
89225
) |
| Oral Questions to the Solicitor General |
| *20 |
Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make a statement on her policy relating to prosecution of offences under the Official Secrets Acts.
|
|
|
(
89226
) |
| *21 |
Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Solicitor General, what plans she has to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service works to secure a higher percentage of prosecutions in cases of alleged incitement to racial hatred.
|
|
|
(
89227
) |
| *22 |
Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of UK legislation against international bribery and corruption.
|
|
|
(
89228
) |
| *23 |
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to publicise the right of (a) victims of crime and (b) members of the public to seek the review of unduly lenient sentences.
|
|
|
(
89229
) |
| *24 |
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Solicitor General, when she next expects to meet representatives of the small firm sector to examine ways of combating fraud perpetrated against businesses.
|
|
|
(
89230
) |
| *25 |
Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Solicitor General, what action she is taking to reduce the number of cases prosecuted but discontinued before trial.
|
|
|
(
89231
) |
| *26 |
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Solicitor General, what measures her Department plans to take to ensure that victims of crime and their relatives are informed of their right to ask the Attorney General to consider the referral of a sentence to the Court of Appeal on the grounds of undue leniency.
|
|
|
(
89232
) |
| *27 |
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Solicitor General, what expertise has been developed in the Crown Prosecution Service for dealing with fraud cases.
|
|
|
(
89233
) |
| At 12.30 p.m. | Private Notice Questions (if any)
Ministerial Statements (if any) |
Preliminary Business |
| Notice of Presentation of Bill
|
| + 1 | ELECTRICITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [No debate]
|
| Ms Secretary Hewitt
|
| Bill to make provision in connection with the provision of financial assistance to, or the acquisition of any securities of or any part of the undertaking or assets of, British Energy p.l.c. or any of its subsidiaries; to provide for the repeal of Part 2 of the Electricity Act 1989; to amend Schedule 12 to that Act and to make provision for undertakings to make grants under that Schedule to be disregarded for tax purposes.
|
Formal first reading: no debate or decision.
|
|
Main Business |
| + 2 | HEALTH (WALES) BILL: Not amended in the Standing Committee, to be considered. [Until 6.00 p.m.]
|
| For Amendments, see separate Paper.
|
| Third Reading will also be taken.
|
| Proceedings on Consideration shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 p.m. and on Third Reading at 6.00 p.m. (Standing Order No. 9 and Orders of 29th October and 27th November 2002).
|
| + 3 | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE [No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
|
| That, at the sitting on Thursday 16th January, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents), the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion relating to Fisheries at Six o'clock, or three hours after their commencement, whichever is the later and the Orders of the House of 28th June 2001 and 29th October 2002 relating to deferred Divisions shall not apply.
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
|
| + 4 | BILLS, &c., BROUGHT FROM THE LORDS [No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin Cook
|
|
|
| (1) Standing Order No. 57 (Presentation and first reading) be amended, by leaving out paragraph (3);
|
| (2) The following Standing Order (Bills brought from the Lords) be made:
|
| `57A.—(1) If a Member informs the Clerks at the Table of his intention to take charge of a bill which has been brought from the Lords, the bill shall be deemed to have been read the first time on the day on which the Member so informs the Clerks, and to have been ordered to be read a second time on such day as he shall appoint, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been read the first time and ordered to be read a second time on the day so appointed, and shall be ordered to be printed.
|
| (2) If a public bill is passed by the Lords and carried to the office of the Clerk of the House at a time when this House is not sitting, then, provided that a Member shall have notified the Clerks at the Table, in writing, of his intention to take charge of the bill—
|
| (a) the Clerk of the House shall arrange for the printing and circulation of copies of the bill, and(b) the bill shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having been read the first time on the next sitting day and as having been ordered to be printed pursuant to this standing order and to be read a second time on such day as the Member shall have appointed.'; and
| (3) Standing Order No. 78 (Lords amendments) be amended as follows:
|
| Line 1, after `bills', insert `and Lords reasons';
|
| Line 3, at end insert `and the provisions of S.O. No. 57A (Bills brought from the Lords) shall apply to the appointment of consideration and the printing of Lords amendments and reasons as they apply to the appointment of second reading and the printing of bills brought from the House of Lords'; and
|
| Line 5, after `bills', insert `or Lords reasons'.
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
|
| + 5 | ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT [No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin CookMr Keith Hill
|
| That Mr Mark Simmonds be discharged from the Environmental Audit Committee and Mr Peter Ainsworth be added.
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
|
| + 6 | EUROPEAN SCRUTINY [No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin CookMr Keith Hill
|
| That Angela Watkinson be discharged from the European Scrutiny Committee and Mr Richard Bacon be added.
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
|
| + 7 | REGULATORY REFORM [No debate after 6.00 p.m.]
|
| Mr Robin CookMr Keith Hill
|
| That Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas be discharged from the Regulatory Reform Committee and Mr John MacDougall be added.
|
| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.
|
| At the end of the sitting
|
| 8 | ADJOURNMENT
|
| Proposed subject: Oil industry and the UK economy (Eric Joyce).
|
| Debate may continue until 6.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9 and Order of 29th October 2002).
|
|
COMMITTEES |
|
| 1 | Standing Committee A | 9.25 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 12 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the European Parliament (Representation) Bill. |
| 2 | Standing Committee B | 9.10 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Criminal Justice Bill. |
| 3 | Standing Committee D | 9.25 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Extradition Bill. |
| 4 | Standing Committee E | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 10 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Communications Bill. |
| 5 | Standing Committee F | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 14 (public)
(public) |
| Further to consider the Hunting Bill. |
| 6 | Standing Committee G | 8.55 a.m.
2.30 p.m. | Room 6 (public)
(public) |
| To consider the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill. |
| 7 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 2.30 p.m. | Room 8 (public) |
| To consider the draft National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Increase of Endowment) Order 2003. |
|
| 8 | Treasury | 9.15 a.m. | The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private) |
| 9 | Northern Ireland Affairs | 9.45 a.m. | Room 19 (private) |
| 10 | Public Administration | 9.45 a.m.
10.00 a.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Public Service Targets. |
| Witnesses: Mr James Strachan, Chairman, and Mr Peter Wilkinson, Director of Health Strategy, Audit Commission. |
| 11 | Health | 10.00 a.m.
11.30 a.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Sexual Health. |
| Witnesses: Dr Muir Gray, National Electronic Screening Library, Dr Trevor Stammers, and Mr Robert Whelan, Family Education Trust, and Jill Frances, Director, Children's Development, National Children's Bureau. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
| Written Ministerial Statements to be made today
|
| | 1 |
Secretary of State for International Development: Humanitarian support to Ethiopia. |
| | 2 | Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: Publication of a revised Explanatory Memorandum and Regulatory Impact Assessment on the revised European Commission proposal on working conditions for temporary (agency) workers and summary of responses to the public consultation.
|
| | 3 | Secretary of State for Health: Diabetes national service framework delivery strategy. |
| | 4 | Secretary of State for Health: Help with health costs—changes resulting from the introduction of new tax credits.
|
| | 5 | Deputy Prime Minister: Publication of briefing notes to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill.
|
| | 6 | Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Digital curriculum.
Standing Committee Notices |
| Standing Committee A will meet on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th January at 9.25 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the European Parliament (Representation) Bill.
|
| Standing Committee B will meet on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th January at 9.10 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Criminal Justice Bill.
|
| Standing Committee D will meet on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th January at 9.25 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Extradition Bill.
|
| Standing Committee E will meet on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th January at 8.55 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Communications Bill.
|
| Standing Committee F will meet on Tuesday 14th January and Thursday 16th January at 8.55 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. to consider the Hunting Bill.
|
| Standing Committee G will meet on Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th January at 8.55 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. further to consider the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill.
|
| European Standing Committee A will meet on Tuesday 14th January at 8.55 a.m. to consider European Union Document No. 13438/01, relating to a Community Strategy for Dioxins, Furans and Polycholorinated Biphenyls.
|
| The First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation will meet on Thursday 16th January at 2.30 p.m. to consider the draft Commissioner for Children and Young People (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.
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