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Order of Business Monday 15 October 2007

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House of Commons
Order of Business

 
At 2.30 p.m.
  Prayers
Afterwards
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.
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
 1
Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge): What steps she is taking to reduce the time it takes police officers to return to their beat after making arrests.
(157277)
 2
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): What steps she is taking to reduce the time it takes police officers to return to their beat after making arrests.
(157278)
 3
Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich): What recent assessment she has made of progress in reducing police bureaucracy.
(157279)
 4
Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): What steps are being taken to tackle the use of replica firearms in criminal activity.
(157280)
 5
Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): If she will make a statement on the circumstances in which armed police officers may open fire.
(157281)
 6
Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): What her policy is on the use by police of pupils' fingerprint data collected by schools; and if she will make a statement.
(157282)
 7
Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): What recent estimate she has made of the number of people whose DNA is held on the national database who have committed no offence.
(157283)
 8
Ben Chapman (Wirral South): What steps her Department is taking to tackle anti-social behaviour in Wirral South.
(157284)
 9
Bob Spink (Castle Point): What the level of net migration into the UK was in each of the last three years; and what her estimate is for the current year.
(157285)
 10
Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): What recent estimate she has made of projected levels of net migration into the UK over the next five years.
(157286)
 11
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What action the Government has taken to reduce levels of drug trafficking since 1997.
(157287)
 12
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What assessment she has made of the likely effect of budgetary plans on future police officer numbers in the East Midlands.
(157288)
 13
Mark Hunter (Cheadle): What progress has been made in approving a roadside drug screening device for use by police.
(157289)
 14
Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): What proposals she has to maximise the amount of time that police officers spend on duty outside their stations.
(157290)
 15
Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): What recent estimates she has made of projected levels of net migration into the UK.
(157291)
 16
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): What additional resources she plans to make available to those local authorities offering refuge provision and special support to child victims of trafficking uncovered by Pentameter II.
(157292)
 17
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): What her estimate is of the number of (a) legal and (b) illegal immigrants arriving in the UK in the last 12 months.
(157294)
 18
Angela Watkinson (Upminster): If she will make a statement on her negotiations with the Royal British Legion on arrangements for Remembrance Sunday parades in 2007.
(157296)
 19
Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): What steps she is taking to tackle human trafficking.
(157297)
 20
Jessica Morden (Newport East): What steps she plans to take to give local communities a greater role in the determination of local policing priorities.
(157298)
 21
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): What guidance her Department has issued to police forces on the use of anti-social behaviour orders in respect of persons under the age of 18.
(157299)
 22
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): If she will make a statement on police manning numbers in Bournemouth.
(157300)
 23
Patrick Hall (Bedford): What plans she has to further develop community policing.
(157301)

At 3.30 p.m.
  Urgent Questions (if any)
 
  Ministerial Statements (if any)

Main Business
  indicates Government Business
1
LEGAL SERVICES BILL [LORDS] (PROGRAMME) (No. 2)
[Up to 45 minutes]
Mr Secretary Straw
 
   That the Order of 4th June 2007 (Legal Services Bill [Lords] (Programme)) be varied as follows:
   1.   Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order shall be omitted.
   2.   Proceedings on Consideration shall be taken in the following order: new Clauses relating to Parts 1 to 4; amendments relating to Clauses 1 to 70; amendments relating to Schedules 1 to 9; new Clauses relating to Part 5; amendments relating to Clauses 71 to 111; amendments relating to Schedules 10 to 14; new Clauses relating to Part 6; amendments relating to Clauses 112 to 161; amendments relating to Schedule 15; remaining new Clauses; amendments relating to Clauses 162 to 214; new Schedules; amendments to Schedules 16 to 24; remaining proceedings on consideration.
   3.   Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 9 p.m. at this day’s sitting.
   4.   Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 10 p.m. at this day’s sitting.
   The Speaker will put the Question not later than 45 minutes after proceedings begin (Standing Order No. 83A(9)).
2
LEGAL SERVICES BILL [LORDS]: As amended in the Public Bill Committee, to be considered.
[Until 10.00 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 9.00 p.m. and proceedings on Third Reading shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 10.00 p.m.
3
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
[No debate after 10.00 p.m.]
Ms Harriet Harman
 
   That, at the sitting on Wednesday 17th October, opposition business may be proceeded with, notwithstanding paragraph (2)(c)(i) of Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business), for three hours or until Four o’clock, whichever is the later, and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.
No debate after 10.00 p.m.
At the end of the sitting:
4
ADJOURNMENT
 
   Proposed subject: Rights of children held in prison (Mr Mark Oaten).
   Debate may continue until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEES
DELEGATED LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
1
First Delegated Legislation Committee
4.30 p.m.
Room 9 (public)
   To consider the draft Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007.
SELECT COMMITTEES
2
Science and Technology
4.00 p.m.
Room 8 (private)
 
4.15 p.m.
(public)
   Subject: Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967.
   Witnesses: Antenatal Results and Choices, Professor Maria Fitzgerald, University College London, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, the British Association of Perinatal Medicine; Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor Patricia Casey, University College, Dublin, Dr Ellie Lee, University of Kent, Dr Chris Richards, Newcastle University, and Dr Sam Rowlands, Warwick Medical School (at 5.00 p.m.).
3
Treasury
4.00 p.m.
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
 
4.15 p.m.
(public)
   Subject: (i) The 2007 Pre-Budget Report (ii) The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
   Witnesses: Robert Chote, Bridget Rosewell, and Martin Weale; Professor Colin Talbot, Martin Weale and John Whiting (at 5.15 p.m.).
4
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
4.15 p.m.
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
 
4.30 p.m.
(public)
   Subject: Badgers and cattle TB: Final Report of the Independent Scientific Group.
   Witnesses: Professor Douglas Young, Chair, TB Vaccine Programme Advisory Group, and Professor Glyn Hewinson, Head TB Research Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge.
5
Communities and Local Government
4.20 p.m.
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
6
Public Accounts
4.30 p.m.
Room 15 (public)
   Subject: Improving Services and Support for People with Dementia.
   Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, Chief Executive, NHS, David Behan CBE, Director General of Social Care, Mark Britnell, Director General of Commissioning and System Management, Department of Health and Professor Sube Bannerjee, Clinical Director of Old Age Psychiatry, South London & Maudesley NHS Trust.
JOINT COMMITTEE
7
Human Rights
4.00 p.m.
Room 4a (private)
[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 Communities and Local Government: Regulation of social housing.
2
Secretary of State for Health: Healthcare Commission Report on Clostridium Difficile at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
3
Secretary of State for Transport: Consultation on rail franchise enforcement policy.

General Committee Notices
        A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 16th October at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. further to consider the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill.
        A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 16th October at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. and Thursday 18th October at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. to consider the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
        The First Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Monday 15th October at 4.30 p.m. to consider the draft Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007.
        The Second Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Tuesday 16th October at 4.30 p.m. to consider the draft European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (Partnership and Cooperation Agreement) (Republic of Tajikistan) Order 2007.
        The Third Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Thursday 18th October at 2.30 p.m. to consider the Home Information Pack (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I., 2007, No. 1667), the Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 8) (England and Wales) Order 2007 (S.I., 2007, No. 1668) and the Housing Act 2004 (Commencement No. 9) (England and Wales) Order 2007 (S.I., 2007, No. 2471).

 

 

 
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