Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
4 - 11 January 2010

Monday 4 January

The House will not be sitting.

Tuesday 5 January

The House will sit at 2:30pm

Oral Questions - Funding of highly specialised research and treatment services - Baroness Gardner of Parkes; Funding for university museums and galleries - Lord Howarth of Newport; Percentage of 15 to 19 year olds in education - Lord Naseby

Legislation - Child Poverty Bill - Second reading - Lord McKenzie of Luton

Debate - Preparations for hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - Lord Faulkner of Worcester

Wednesday 6 January

The House will sit at 3:00pm

Oral Questions - The Mountain Rescue Service - Lord Dubs; The grounds for decisions to forbid hospital staff and carers from helping patients to eat - Baroness Knight of Collingtree; Iranian dissident refugees in Iraq - Lord Corbett of Castle Vale

Legislation - Digital Economy Bill - Committee stage (day 1) - Lord Mandelson/ Lord Davies of Oldham

The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm

Legislation - Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Bill - Committee stage (day 1) - Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Short Debate - Recommendations of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly on Climate Change and Renewable Energy - Lord Dubs/ Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Thursday 7 January

The House will sit at 11:00am

Oral Questions - Proposals to enable Secretaries of State in the House of Lords to appear in the House of Commons - Baroness Boothroyd; Reforming the procedures of the House of Lords - Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe; Regulation of astrologers - Lord Taverne

Debate - Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa - Baroness Cox/Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Debate - Combating obesity among young people - Lord Pendry

The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 2:00pm

Legislation - Bribery Bill - Committee stage (day 1) - Lord Bach