Order of Business for Thursday 12 January 2006

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Order of Business Thursday 12 January 2006

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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.

At 10.30 a.m.

Prayers

Afterwards

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills

Albert Owen (Ynys Môn): What steps she is taking to encourage the strengthening of working relationships between universities and industry.

(41061)

Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): How she intends to strengthen working relationships between universities and industry.

(41062)

*;3

Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): What steps she is taking to assist teachers in managing disruptive classroom behaviour.

(41063)

Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): What representations she has received from teachers' unions on the development of policy on preventing disruptive behaviour in the classroom.

(41065)

Edward Miliband (Doncaster North): What steps the Department is taking to give young people more choice in and influence over the activities and facilities made available to them.

(41066)

Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): If she will make a statement on trust schools.

(41067)

Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch): What plans she has to provide more affordable childcare places.

(41068)

Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): What steps the Government is taking to encourage overseas students to study at English universities.

(41069)

Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): What recent assessment she has made of funding for science research in higher education in the South West of England.

(41070)

*10

Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): If she will make a statement on measures to promote fair access to higher education.

(41071)

*11

Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): What plans she has to increase the number of women apprentices in non-traditional occupations.

(41072)

*12

Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough): What steps she is taking to improve the teaching of physical education in schools.

(41073)

*13

Hugh Bayley (City of York): What steps the Government is taking to enable the most popular universities to expand.

(41074)

*14

Mr Siôn Simon (Birmingham, Erdington): What steps she is taking to improve out-of-hours facilities provided by schools.

(41075)

*15

Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley): What steps she is taking to improve the life chances of looked-after children.

(41076)

*16

David Wright (Telford): If she will fund smaller classes for children who are not reaching the required educational standard; and if she will make a statement.

(41077)

*17

Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): Whether, as part of further schools reform, she intends to require all schools to follow the existing admissions code of practice; and if she will make a statement.

(41078)

*18

Ed Balls (Normanton): What steps she plans to take to improve the coordination of services for children with special needs and their families.

(41079)

*19

Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): What discussions she has had with local authorities about extended schools.

(41080)

At 11.20 a.m.

Oral Questions to the Solicitor General

*20

Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green): What factors the Law Officers take into consideration in assessing whether media reports of criminal proceedings constitute contempt.

(41081)

*21

Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): In how many cases a prosecution has been discontinued in the public interest in the last 12 months.

(41082)

*22

Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): How many people were employed in the Treasury Solicitor's Department in the year ending 31st December 2003, 2004 and 2005; and what the cost of the Department was in each year.

(41083)

*23

Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): What further steps are being taken to improve the conviction rate in prosecutions for non-stranger rape.

(41084)

*24

Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): What further steps he plans to take to protect small businesses from fraudulent schemes.

(41085)

*25

Hugh Bayley (City of York): What additional steps the Law Officers will take to tackle human trafficking for prostitution.

(41086)

*26

John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What assessment his Department has made of the need for effective trial management in complex fraud trials.

(41087)

*27

Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): What the Crown Prosecution Service's policy is on prosecuting men who use prostitutes who have been trafficked from other countries.

(41088)

At 11.30 a.m.	Urgent Questions (if any)
	Ministerial Statements (if any)

Main Business

†	indicates Government Business

†

CROSSRAIL BILL [INSTRUCTION] (No. 2)

Mr Secretary Darling

That it be a further Instruction to the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is committed—

(1)	that it have power to consider—

(a)	the extension of permitted development under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 in relation to development which is the subject of environmental assessment in connection with the Bill;

(b)	additional power to carry out works for the purpose of reinstating facilities whose operation or use is discontinued because of the exercise of powers conferred by the Bill;

(c)	provision relating to the abstraction of water;

(d)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding planning permission for development authorised by the Bill which consists of a work other than a scheduled work;

(e)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding the application of provisions of the Bill to things authorised by an order under section 1 of the Transport and Works Act 1992;

(f)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding any of the following—

(i)	a crossover at Farringdon;

(ii)	sidings at Westbourne Park;

(iii)

diversion of the Moorgate Station Sewer;

(iv)	a jetty and conveyor at West India Docks South;

(v)	use of the River Lea for barge loading and holding areas;

(vi)	realignment of the Docklands Light Railway at Custom House;

(vii)

facilities for handling excavated materials at Manor Wharf;

(viii)

a shaft at Eleanor Street;

(ix)	diversion of the Hackney to Abbey Mills Sewer and the Wick Lane Sewer;

(x)	a bridge over Hollow Hill Lane, Langley;

(g)	realignment of the proposed running tunnel beneath Shorts Gardens, Camden;

(h)	alterations to a ticket hall at the proposed Whitechapel Station;

(i)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding approval in relation to highway accesses;

(j)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding the acquisition of land at Basin Approach, Lowell Street and land at Billingsgate Market;

(k)	alterations to the provision which is now made in the Bill regarding the creation and acquisition of easements or other rights over land;

(l)	alterations to the table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Bill (disapplication and modification of heritage controls), so far as relating to the City of Westminster, the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets;

(m)	the inclusion of additional land within the limits of land to be acquired or used;

and, if it thinks fit, to make amendments to the Bill with respect to any of the matters mentioned above, and for connected purposes;

(2)	that any Petition against Amendments to the Bill which the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is committed is empowered to make shall be referred to that Select Committee if—

(a)

it is presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the first newspaper notice of the Amendments was published or, if that period includes any time during which the House is adjourned for more than four days, not later than five weeks beginning with that day, and

(b)	it is one in which the Petitioners pray to be heard by themselves, their Counsel or Agents.

That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.

†

CROSSRAIL BILL [INSTRUCTION] (No. 3)

Mr Secretary Darling

That it be a further Instruction to the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is committed that, where a Petition against the Bill which stands referred to the Select Committee raises an issue regarding extension of the railway transport system for which the Bill provides—

(a)	from Maidenhead to Reading, or

(b)	from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet,

it may, if it thinks it appropriate to do so, hear the Petitioner and the Member in charge of the Bill on that issue for the purpose of reporting to the House whether there appears to be a case for such extension being the subject of an application for an order under the Transport and Works Act 1992.

That where the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is committed decides under this instruction to hear the Petitioner and the Member in charge of the Bill on an issue, the Petitioner shall be entitled to be heard by himself, his Counsel or Agents and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents.

That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.

†

CROSSRAIL BILL [LATE PETITIONS]

Mr Secretary Darling

That paragraph (a) of the Order of 19th July 2005 about the Petitions which are to stand referred to the Select Committee (which requires a Petition to have been deposited in the Private Bill Office at any time not later than 16th September 2005) be suspended in the case of the Petitions of the following—

That those Petitions stand referred to the Select Committee.

That those Petitions be treated as ones in relation to which the Order of 19th July about the entering of appearances on Petitions has effect.

That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.

An Explanatory Memorandum on each Motion is available in the Vote Office.

The Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Mr Secretary Darling relating to the Crossrail Bill not later than two hours after the commencement of proceedings on the first Motion (Order of 19th December 2005).

†

ADJOURNMENT

The Prime Minister

That this House do now adjourn.

Proposed subject for debate: Security of energy supply.

Debate may continue for three hours or until 6.00 p.m., whichever is the later (Order of 19th December 2005).

†

DELEGATED LEGISLATION

[No debate after 6.00 p.m.]

Mr Geoffrey Hoon

That the National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005 (S.I., 2005, No. 3361), dated 6th December 2005 and the National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2005 (S.I., 2005, No. 3373), dated 7th December 2005, be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.

If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 6.00 p.m.

Security of energy supply.

At the end of the sitting:

ADJOURNMENT

Proposed subject: Care of the dying (Angela Browning).

Debate may continue until 6.30 p.m., or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEES

SELECT COMMITTEES
1	Health	9.30 a.m.	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
2	Finance and Services	9.45 a.m.	Room 13 (private)
3	Public Administration	9.45 a.m.	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
4	Armed Forces Bill	10.00 a.m.	The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private)
5	Crossrail Bill	10.30 a.m.	Room 5 (private)

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Ministerial Statements to be made today

1	Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office: Report to Parliament on delegations/authorisations made in 2005 under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992.

2	Secretary of State for Defence: Qinetiq.

3	Secretary of State for Defence: Merlin Capability Sustainment Programme.

4	Deputy Prime Minister: Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (S.I., 2005, No. 1541).

5	Secretary of State for the Home Department: Voluntary assisted return and reintegration programme.

6	Secretary of State for the Home Department: Private security industry approved contractor scheme.

7	Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Health and Safety Commission appointment of independent chair of Buncefield investigation board.