+ indicates Government business.
Timings are indicative only.
Main Business |
| 1 | OPPOSITION DAY (13th allotted day)
[Until 10.00
p.m.]
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| | GOVERNMENT TARGETS
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| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Michael Howard
Dr Liam Fox
Mr Howard Flight
Mr Simon Burns
David Maclean
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| That this House notes the abject failure of the Government to meet its targets for delivery on public services; believes the current public service agreement regime to be deeply flawed; is concerned in particular that the volume of targets and their rigid and centralised structure have stifled local initiative, diminished professional responsibility, distorted priorities and diverted time and attention away from the task of improving public services; regrets that the Government has used targets as a substitute for real reform; and calls on the Government to embrace the principles of professional autonomy, decentralisation, diversity and choice in the public services, in order to end its policy of taxing and spending and failing.
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| As an Amendment to Mr Iain Duncan Smith's proposed Motion (Government Targets):
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| The Prime Minister
Mr Secretary Prescott
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Secretary Reid
Mr Secretary Darling
Mr Paul Boateng
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `welcomes the Government's record extra investment in health, education and Britain's other vital public services; supports the Government's agenda of linking this investment to public service reform through Public Service Agreements to build high quality public services for all; welcomes the attainment of economic stability, with low inflation, low interest rates, and low unemployment; believes that the achievement of this platform of stability has made record extra investment in public services possible; supports the Government's determination to do nothing to put this stability at risk; believes that after years of neglect between 1979 and 1997 it is even more important to invest in our public services and that to fail to invest in health, education, and other vital public services would be deeply damaging; and supports this Government's resistance to any attempt at this time of global economic uncertainty to cut public spending.'.
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| | TAX CREDITS SCHEME
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| Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr David Willetts
Mr Michael Howard
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Mark Prisk
David Maclean
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| That this House condemns the Government for failing to pay the new tax credits on time to millions of entitled families, including those who applied before the January deadline; is concerned that many families are still waiting to receive the money they are owed; regrets the serious financial difficulties suffered by many of these families; condemns the clumsy arrangements for paying overdue tax credits; calls on ministers to explain why the Inland Revenue computer system has proved so unreliable; shares the widespread concern that take-up of the new tax credits is likely to be low; regrets the quality of information available on the new tax credits; and calls on the Government to set up a system of emergency Social Fund loans to people who are still waiting for the correct tax credit payment.
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| As an Amendment to Mr Iain Duncan Smith's proposed Motion (Tax Credits Scheme):
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| The Prime Minister
Mr Secretary Prescott
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Secretary Smith
Dawn Primarolo
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| Line 1, leave out from `House' to end and add `notes that the introduction of the Child Tax Credit is the biggest single change in support for families since the Beveridge reforms of the 1940s, and a more radical change than the introduction of Child Benefit 25 years ago; notes that the new tax credits represent the biggest ever investment in families with children, with no government ever having spent so much on children and families; welcomes the fact that 90 per cent. of families with children are eligible for the Child Tax Credit; further welcomes the fact that tax credits are now being paid to 4.2 million families; notes that in addition 1.3 million families with children on Income Support and Jobseekers' Allowance are already benefiting from the increased level of support through their benefits; welcomes the fact that 5.5 million families are therefore now benefiting from tax credits, with more and more being paid every week; and believes that these figures belie the persistent criticism that people would not claim, and that those who said that families would not apply for the new tax credits, and that take up would be low, have been proved wrong.'.
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| The selection of the matters to be debated this day has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No 14(2)).
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| Debate may continue until 10.00
p.m.
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| + 2 | ELECTRICITY
[No debate]
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| That the draft Electricity and Gas (Modification of Standard Conditions of Licences) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 12th June, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| + 3 | CONTRACTING OUT
[No debate]
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| That the draft Contracting Out (Function in relation to the Management of Crown Lands) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 11th June, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| + 4 | VALUE ADDED TAX
[No debate]
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| Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
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| That the Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2003 (S.I., 2003, No. 1568), dated 16th June 2003, a copy of which was laid before this House on 16th June, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| + 5 | REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
[No debate]
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| That the draft Representation of the People (Form of Canvas) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003, which were laid before this House on 13th June, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| + 6 | COMMUNITY CARE
[No debate]
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| That the draft Community Care Plans (Disapplication) (England) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 12th June, be approved.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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| + 7 | ADDITIVES IN ANIMAL NUTRITION
[No debate]
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| That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 7505/02, draft Regulation on additives for use in animal nutrition; and supports the Government's view that the measure will enhance the protection of consumers of livestock products and rationalise authorisation procedures.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 119(9)).
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| + 8 | SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE
[No debate after 10.00
p.m.]
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| (1) at the sittings on Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th July, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Message from the Lords has been received and any Committee to draw up Reasons which has been appointed at that sitting has reported; and
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| (2) at the sitting on Thursday 17th July, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he has reported the Royal Assent to any Act agreed upon by both Houses.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00
p.m.
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| + 9 | ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)
[No debate]
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| That this House, at its rising on Thursday 17th July, do adjourn till Monday 8th September 2003.
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| To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 25).
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| + 10 | BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
[No debate after 10.00
p.m.]
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| That at the sitting on Thursday 17th July, the Motion for the Adjournment of the House in the name of the Prime Minister relating to matters to be considered before the forthcoming adjournment may be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00
p.m.
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| + 11 | MODERNISATION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
[No debate after 10.00
p.m.]
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| That Dr John Reid and Caroline Flint be discharged from the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons and Peter Hain and Martin Linton be added.
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00
p.m.
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| + 12 | WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE
[No debate after 10.00
p.m.]
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| (a) the matter of the Draft Public Audit (Wales) Bill be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee for its consideration;
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| (2) the Committee shall meet at Westminster on Tuesday 15th July at five minutes to Nine o'clock to consider the matter of the Draft Public Audit (Wales) Bill under Standing Order No. 107 (Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)).
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| If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00
p.m.
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| At the end of the sitting:
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| 13 | ADJOURNMENT
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| Proposed Subject: CAP reform in West Dorset (Mr Oliver Letwin).
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| Debate may continue until 10.30
p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).
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COMMITTEES |
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| 1 | First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 9 (public) |
| To consider the draft Asylum (Designated States) (No. 2) Order 2003. |
| 2 | Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 11 (public) |
| To consider the draft Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 2003. |
| 3 | Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 10 (public) |
| To consider the draft Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease (England and Wales) Order 2003. |
| 4 | Ninth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation | 4.30 p.m. | Room 12 (public) |
| To consider the draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Database Protection Agreement Between the United Kingdom on behalf of the Isle of Man and the European Community) Order 2003. |
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| 5 | International Development | 3.00 p.m. | Room 13 (private) |
| 6 | Education and Skills | 3.45 p.m.
4.00 p.m. | The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Secondary Education: Teacher Retention. |
| Witnesses: Mrs Heather du Quesnay CBE, Director and Chief Executive, and Dame Patricia Collarbone DBE, Director of Development, National College for School Leadership, and Mr Ralph Tabberer, Chief Executive, and Miss Mary Doherty, Director of Teacher Supply and Recruitment, Teacher Training Agency. |
| 7 | Public Administration | 3.45 p.m.
4.00 p.m. | The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
(public) |
| Subject: Ministerial Powers and the Prerogative. |
| Witnesses: Sir Hayden Phillips, GCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, and Gay Catto, Ceremonial Officer, Cabinet Office. |
| 8 | Science and Technology | 4.00 p.m.
4.30 p.m. | Room 8 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: The Work of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. |
| Witnesses: Professor John O'Reilly, Chief Executive, Dr David Clark, Director, Research and Innovation, and Mr Stuart Ward, Director, Resources, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and Ms Beatrice Leigh, Director, Operations Technology Development, GlaxoSmithKline. |
| 9 | Transport | 4.00 p.m. | Room 16 (private) |
JOINT COMMITTEE |
| 10 | Human Rights | 4.30 p.m. | Room 5 (private) |
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| 11 | Public Accounts Commission | 4.00 p.m.
4.15 p.m. | Room 7 (private)
(public) |
| Subject: (i) The National Audit Office's Corporate Plan for 2004-05 to 2006-07; (ii) The Northern Ireland Audit Office's Corporate Plan for 2004-05 to 2006-07. |
| Witnesses: Sir John Bourn KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, and officials of the National Audit Office; Mr John Dowdall CB, Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, and officials of the Northern Ireland Audit Office. |
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.] |
