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Order of Business Thursday 18 June 2009

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House of Commons
Order of Business

 
At 10.30 am
  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 honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, and the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission
 1
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential effects on levels of voting of the use of different electoral systems; and if he will make a statement.
(280570)
 2
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment he has made of the effect on the Church's finances of the new system of charging for surface water run-off on church property.
(280571)
 3
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent discussions the Electoral Commission has had with the Ministry of Justice on proposals for the introduction of early voting in elections.
(280572)
 4
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the cost to parishes of dealing with bat populations in churches in the last five years.
(280573)
 5
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, what the Public Accounts Commission's most recent assessment is of the likelihood of an underspend on contingencies in the National Audit Office Estimate for 2009-10, as referred to in HM Treasury's note to the Commission of 10 March 2009.
(280574)
 6
Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners are taking to assist the Church during the economic downturn.
(280576)
 7
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what plans the Electoral Commission has to make an assessment of the effectiveness of the arrangements made in the UK for the June 2009 elections to the European Parliament.
(280577)
 8
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the honourable Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what steps the Electoral Commission is taking to increase levels of electoral registration in constituencies in which such levels are disproportionately low.
(280578)
 
At 10.50 am
Oral Questions to the Solicitor General
 9
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): How many prosecutions have been brought by the Crown Prosecution Service for offences of theft from shops in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
(280579)
 10
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): What recent progress has been made in monitoring the Crown Prosecution Service's performance in relation to prosecutions for rape.
(280581)
 11
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): When officers of the Serious Fraud Office next expect to meet representatives of small business organisations to discuss measures to combat serious fraud schemes aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises.
(280582)
 12
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): What steps the Serious Fraud Office is taking to increase its effectiveness in prosecuting fraudsters.
(280583)
 13
Richard Ottaway (Croydon):( South): What steps she is taking to review the operation of laws on bribery.
(280584)
 14
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What estimate she has made of the likely effect of the merger of the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on the number of jobs in the CPS.
(280585)
 15
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What steps the Crown Prosecution Service takes to assist elderly and vulnerable people to give evidence as witnesses for the prosecution.
(280586)
 16
Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): How many prosecutions have been discontinued on the advice of the Crown Prosecution Service on the first day set down for the trial in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
(280587)
 
At 11.10 am
Oral Questions to the Leader of the House and the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission
 17
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask the Leader of the House, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the respective roles of the Committee on Standards and Privileges and the proposed Parliamentary Standards Authority; and if she will make a statement.
(280588)
 18
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will establish a cross-party committee to review the functions, objectives and roles of the Procedure Committee and the Modernisation Committee; and if she will make a statement.
(280590)
 19
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission, what recent representations the House of Commons Commission has received from hon. Members on the continuing demonstrations in Parliament Square.
(280591)
 20
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward proposals for reform of the role of the Whips' offices as part of the Government's proposals for constitutional reform; and if she will make a statement.
(280592)

At 11.30 am
  Urgent Questions (if any)
 
  Business Question to the Leader of the House
 
  Ministerial Statements (if any)

Preliminary Business
Notice of Presentation of Bill
1
MOTOR VEHICLE (CLIMATE CHANGE INFORMATION)
[No debate]
Colin Challen
 
   That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the display of climate change information in motor vehicle advertising and registration documents.
Formal first reading: no debate or decision.

Main Business
  indicates Government Business
2
TOPICAL DEBATE: PREPARING BRITAIN’S ECONOMY FOR THE FUTURE
[Up to one and a half hours]
Ms Harriet Harman
 
   That this House has considered the matter of preparing Britain’s economy for the future.
Debate may continue for one and a half hours (Standing Order No. 24A).
3
FOOD, FARMING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
[Until 6.00 pm]
The Prime Minister
 
   That this House has considered the matter of food, farming and the environment.
Debate may continue until 6.00 pm.
 
 
At the end of the sitting:
4
ADJOURNMENT
 
   Proposed subject: Future of the Stourbridge Glass Collection at Broadfield House Museum (Lynda Waltho).
   Debate may continue until 6.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later (Standing Order No. 9).

COMMITTEES
PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEES
1
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords] Committee
9.00 am
Room 11 (public)
 
1.00 pm
(public)
   Further to consider the Bill.
2
Equality Bill Committee
9.00 am
Room 12 (public)
 
1.00 pm
(public)
   Further to consider the Bill.
3
Finance Bill Committee
9.00 am
Room 10 (public)
 
1.00 pm
(public)
   Further to consider the Bill.
4
Health Bill [Lords] Committee
9.30 am
Room 14 (public)
 
1.00 pm
(public)
   Further to consider the Bill.
5
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords] Committee
9.00 am
Room 9 (public)
 
1.00 pm
(public)
   Further to consider the Bill.
DELEGATED LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
6
Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee
8.55 am
Room 16 (public)
   To consider the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I., 2009, No. 1342).
SELECT COMMITTEES
7
Health
9.30 am
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
8
Public Administration
9.45 am
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
 
10.00 am
(public)
   Subject: Executive Pay in the Public Sector.
   Witnesses: Millie Banerjee, Chair, Ofcom Remuneration Committee, Tim Melville-Ross, Chair, Higher Education Funding Council for England, and Dr Anne Wright, Chair, National Lottery Commission; Bill Cockburn CBE, Chairman, Mike Langley, member, and Keith Masson, Director of Secretariat, Senior Salaries Review Body (at 11.00 am).
9
Finance and Services
9.50 am
Room 13 (private)
[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Ministerial Statements to be made today
1
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer: ECOFIN 9 June 2009.
2
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer: Iranian assets frozen in the UK.
3
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government: Planning.
4
Secretary of State for Defence: Publication of the First Report by OFSTED on the quality of welfare and duty of care for recruits and trainees in the armed forces.
5
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic missions with an outstanding national non-domestic rates bill over £10,000 as at 6 May 2009.
6
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic missions and international organisations in the United Kingdom with unpaid London congestion charge and fines: 2008.
7
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic missions and international organisations in the United Kingdom with unpaid parking and minor traffic violations fines: 2008.
8
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Serious offences allegedly committed in 2008 by persons entitled to diplomatic immunity.
9
Secretary of State for Health: Implementation of White Paper on Pharmacy in England: Building on strengths – delivering the future.
10
Secretary of State for Justice: Civil court fees.
11
Secretary of State for Transport: EU Transport Council, 11 June 2009.

 

 

 
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