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Order of Business Tuesday 9 March 2010 Here you can browse the House of Commons Order of Business for Tuesday 9 March 2010.

+ indicates Government business. Timings are indicative only. House of Commons Order of Business   At 2.30 pm   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 Communities and Local Government  1 Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): Under what exceptional circumstances planning inspectors may consider representations on planning appeals made after the deadline for submissions has passed. (320996)  2 Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): What guidance he has issued to local authorities on achieving efficiency savings without reducing front-line services. (320997)  3 Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government support for local authority regeneration initiatives delivered regionally. (320998)  4 Paul Rowen (Rochdale): What account his Department takes of the effects on local employment in the construction industry in its decisions on the allocation of funding for house building projects. (320999)  5 Bob Russell (Colchester): If he will arrange for public consultation to take place in Essex on the subject of establishing unitary authorities. (321000)  6 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What recent representations he has had from local authorities on the effects on them of the recent recession. (321001)  7 Chloe Smith (Norwich North): For what reasons he overruled the advice of his Department's Accounting Officer in relation to the value for money of his proposals for unitary restructuring in Norfolk. (321002)  8 Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): What progress has been made in providing security of tenure for Gypsies and Travellers on local authority sites. (321003)  9 Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): What account his Department takes of the effects on local employment in the construction industry in its decisions on the allocation of funding for house building projects. (321004)  10 Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): How much on average was paid by a business in non-domestic rates in (a) 1997-98 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available. (321005)  11 Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): What recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund which has been allocated to local authorities. (321007)  12 Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What recent representations he has received on his Department's target to build three million houses by 2020; and if he will make a statement. (321008)  13 Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): If he will issue guidance to local authorities on the granting of licences for massage parlours. (321009)  14 James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): If he will make it his policy to suspend or abolish home information packs. (321012)  15 Mr David Drew (Stroud): What progress he has made on the establishment of community land trusts. (321013)  16 Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): What his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of Government support for local authority regeneration initiatives in the North West; and if he will make a statement. (321014)  17 Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): What mechanism are in place to enable the views of local residents to be taken into account in the consideration of major planning decisions affecting their areas; and if he will make a statement. (321015)  18 Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What recent representations he has received on variations in the ratio between the number of people represented and councillors in different local authorities. (321016)  19 Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): What recent discussions he has had with the West Midlands Fire Service on emergency response times. (321017)  20 Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough): What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government support for local authority regeneration initiatives in the East Midlands; and if he will make a statement. (321018)  21 Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): What recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund which has been allocated to local authorities. (321019)  22 Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): If he will bring forward proposals to end regional spatial strategies. (321020) At 3.15 pm Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.  T1 Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (321021)  T2 Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): (321022)  T3 Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): (321023)  T4 John Robertson (Glasgow North West): (321024)  T5 Paul Rowen (Rochdale): (321025)  T6 Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): (321026)  T7 Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): (321027)  T8 Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): (321028)  T9 Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): (321029) At 3.30 pm   Urgent Questions (if any)     Ministerial Statements (if any) Preliminary Business Ten minute rule Motion 1 HYDROFLUOROCARBONS LIMITATION [Up to 20 minutes] Clive Efford      That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for limiting the use of hydrofluorocarbons in certain premises; and for connected purposes.    The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to ten minutes (Standing Order No. 23). Main Business †   indicates Government Business 2 OPPOSITION DAY (5th allotted day) [Until 10.00 pm]   HEALTHCARE IN LONDON Mr David Cameron Mr Andrew Lansley Justine Greening Anne Milton Mike Penning Mr Patrick McLoughlin        That this House recognises that London has some of the leading hospitals and healthcare services and expertise in the world; notes with concern that some areas of London have the worst outcomes for stroke, heart disease and cancer in the country; is alarmed that health inequalities in the capital rank among the worst in the country; believes in improving services to meet the needs of London’s 7.5 million inhabitants; calls for the delivery of a public health strategy geared towards the reduction of health inequalities; calls on NHS London to halt the implementation of current sector-wide reconfiguration proposals across London, including accident and emergency services, until a more effective public consultation is in place; further calls for service configurations that are soundly evidence-based and which meet the choice of patients and the referral intentions of local GPs; further believes that consultant-led obstetric departments and maternity units should not be closed, whilst they are safe, accessible and responsive to a continuing need; and calls on NHS London and the Department of Health to publish the details of the commitments made at the time of the Olympics bid to fund healthcare services in the capital, and to disclose what the current estimate is of the cost of providing services for the Olympics and how it is proposed that this should be funded.

As Amendments to Mr David Cameron’s proposed Motion (Healthcare in London):

The Prime Minister Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer Secretary Alan Johnson Secretary John Denham Secretary Andy Burnham Mr Mike O’Brien

Tessa Jowell    Ann Keen

(a)

Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘recognises that there are health inequalities, particularly around heart disease, stroke and cancer, to be addressed in London; agrees that there is a need to build stronger organisations which are clinically and financially sustainable and provide the best service to their local populations; recognises the importance of the work by Lord Darzi and over 200 clinicians who undertook the Healthcare for London review, which was widely supported and consulted on in London; recognises that trusts have worked closely with their local communities to communicate the aims of the programme; further recognises that lives will be saved because the NHS in London, supported by public consultation and following review and scrutiny by local and pan-London Health Overview and Scrutiny Committees, has agreed to implement new stroke and trauma networks surrounding world-leading major trauma centres and hyper-acute stroke units to ensure that patients receive high quality and innovative care in centres of excellence, expected to save approximately 500 lives a year; acknowledges that there have already been improvements in cardiac outcomes; notes that there must be no further changes to accident and emergency or obstetrics departments unless and until improved access to new services is available and that any changes must be subject to full and formal public consultation; and further notes that the Government is preparing robust planning systems to ensure that NHS London is fully prepared to meet the challenges posed by the London 2012 Olympic Games.’.

Mike Gapes

(b)

Line 8, leave out from ‘services’ to ‘further’ in line 9 and insert ‘at King George Hospital, Ilford, and calls for the Secretary of State for Health to refer the proposals for reconfiguration of services in outer north east London to an independent review panel.’.

Mr Nick Clegg Dr Vincent Cable Norman Lamb Tom Brake Mr Paul Burstow Mr David Heath

(d)

Line 9, leave out from ‘until’ to ‘further’ and insert ‘Primary Care Trusts have been replaced with democratically elected and accountable Local Health Boards which are responsible to the communities they represent and which should make decisions about local services in an open way so that local people have a real say in the future of their local health services’.

Mike Gapes

(c)

Line 12, after ‘units’, insert ‘including at King George Hospital, Ilford’.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING IN DEVON, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK

Mr David Cameron Mrs Caroline Spelman Robert Neill Grant Shapps Justine Greening Mr Patrick McLoughlin

That this House expresses grave concern at the manner in which unitary restructuring is being imposed on local government in Devon and Norfolk; questions the legality, motivation and financial probity of restructuring in Devon and Norfolk during this pre-election period; notes that the Permanent Secretary has had to seek a Ministerial Direction from the Secretary of State as to the value for money and feasibility of restructuring at this time; further notes that the Permanent Secretary has concerns regarding the legal vulnerability of current restructuring plans in the case of judicial review; cautions that distinguished academic research fundamentally undermines the economic case for unitary restructuring; asserts that restructuring will place an additional cost burden on council tax payers in Devon and Norfolk; regrets the ongoing uncertainty created in Suffolk over the restructuring plans; commends much wider joint working and shared service arrangements between local authorities as important ways of delivering efficiency savings; believes it is an abuse of the democratic process; and calls for the draft Statutory Instruments pertaining to restructuring to be subject to a debate on the floor of the House and then for the proposals to be withdrawn.

The Prime Minister Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer Secretary John Denham Ms Rosie Winterton Barbara Follett

Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘recognises the benefits that will accrue to the people of Exeter and Norwich, and to the surrounding areas of Devon and Norfolk, from a unitary authority in Exeter and a unitary authority in Norwich; believes that after more than three years of public debate on these issues it is now right for Parliament to consider and finally resolve them; looks forward to debating the draft structural change Orders in the very near future; notes the benefit to local people, including the substantial efficiency savings being achieved, of unitary councils established on 1 April 2009; recognises the wide support for unitary local government in Suffolk; and calls on the councils and right honourable and honourable Members for that county to work quickly together to reach a consensus on a unitary solution for that area.’.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

[No debate]

Secretary Andy Burnham

That the draft Protection from Tobacco (Sales from Vending Machines) (England) Regulations 2010, which were laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

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PUBLIC HEALTH

[No debate]

Secretary Andy Burnham

That the draft Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display of Prices) (England) Regulations 2010, which were laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

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ELECTRICITY

[No debate]

Secretary Edward Miliband

That the draft Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2010, which was laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

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SOCIAL SECURITY

[No debate]

Stephen Timms

That the draft Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2010, which were laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

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COUNCIL DECISION: SOMALI SECURITY FORCES

[No debate]

Chris Bryant

That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 5770/10, a Council Decision on a European military mission to contribute to the training of Somali security forces; and welcomes the Council Decision as a positive contribution to building peace and stability in Somalia.