Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
1 - 5 February 2010

Monday 1 February

The House will sit at 2:30pm

Oral Questions - Banking services for customers - Lord Dykes; The number of those paying the higher rate of income tax who have left the UK - Baroness Valentine; A national registration system for the practice of herbal medicine - Lord Pearson of Rannoch; Civil Litigation costs. - Lord Clinton-Davis

Legislation - Live Music Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House - Lord Clement-Jones

Legislation - Personal Care at Home Bill - Second reading - Baroness Thornton

Orders and Regulations - Draft Pharmacy Order 2010 - Motion of regret - Baroness Thornton/Lord Scott of Foscote

The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm

Orders and Regulations - Passengers' Council (Non-Railway Functions) Order 2010 - Lord Faulkner of Worcester; Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 2010 - Lord Faulkner of Worcester; Overhead Lines (Exempt Installations) Order 2010 - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.; National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Health and Health Services and Social Welfare) Order 2010 - Lord Davies of Oldham; Infrastructure Planning (Decisions) Regulations 2010 - Lord McKenzie of Luton

Tuesday 2 February

The House will sit at 2:30pm

Oral Questions - The monitoring of the Homes and Communities Agency's duty to deliver good design - Lord Howarth of Newport; The purchasing of Government debt when quantitative easing ends - Lord Hamilton of Epsom; Money from dormant bank accounts reaching front-line youth services - Baroness Walmsley

Legislation - Bribery Bill [HL] - Report stage - Lord Bach

Debate - Report of the Committee on the Barnett Formula - Lord Richard

Wednesday 3 February

The House will sit at 3:00pm

Oral Questions - Number of people injured as a result of the recent bad weather - Lord Dubs; Increasing food production in the UK - Baroness Byford; Control orders - Lord Lloyd of Berwick

Legislation - Northern Ireland Assembly Members Bill [HL] - Report stage - Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

Legislation - Digital Economy Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 6) - Lord Mandelson/Lord Davies of Oldham

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

Debate - The conflict in the eastern Congo - Lord Chidgey/Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead; Age discrimination in mental health services - Baroness Murphy/minister tbc; The law on assisted dying - Lord Warner/Lord Bach; Dangers posed by shared surface street designs - Lord Low of Dalston/Lord Faulkner of Worcester

Thursday 4 February

The House will sit at 11:00am

Oral Questions - Access to NHS dentists - Lord Colwyn; Prosecutions for corruption or bribery abroad - Lord Steel of Aikwood; Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - Lord Wright of Richmond

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport - Lord Adonis

Debate - Enterprise and innovation in stimulating economic growth - Lord Sanderson of Bowden; The Convergence Programme for the UK - Lord Myners; The UK's National Security Strategy - Lord King of Bridgwater/Lord West of Spithead

Friday 5 February

The House will sit at 10:00am

Legislation - Constitutional Reform Bill [HL] - Second reading - Lord Willoughby de Broke/minister tbc.

Legislation - Marine Navigation Aids Bill [HL] - Second reading - Lord Berkeley/Lord Faulkner of Worcester

Legislation - Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) Bill [HL] - Second reading - Baroness Quin/minister tbc.

Legislation - Patient Transport Bill [HL] - Second reading - Baroness Greengross/Baroness Thornton

Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
8 - 12 February 2010

Monday 8 February

The House will sit at 2:30pm

Oral Questions - Funding of education in prisons - Lord Ramsbotham; The 2010 Kazakhstan chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Viscount Waverley; The third runway at Heathrow - Lord Trefgarne; The promotion of social tourism - Baroness Rendell of Babergh

Legislation - Financial Services Bill - Second reading - Lord Myners

The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm

Legislation - Child Poverty Bill - Committee stage (Day 5) - Lord McKenzie of Luton

Tuesday 9 February

The House will sit at 2:30pm

Oral Questions - Human rights of Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf - Lord Maginnis of Drumglass; Discarded fish caught by vessels in the North Sea and South Western waters - Lord Teverson; Safeguarding of social science and humanities research in universities - Lord Judd

Legislation - Bribery Bill [HL] - Third reading - Lord Bach

Legislation - Equality Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 6) - Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

Legislation - Digital Economy Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 7) - Lord Mandelson/Lord Davies of Oldham

Legislation - Allhallows Staining Church Bill - Second reading - The Clothworkers' Company

Legislation - Kent County Council (Filming on Highways) Bill - Second reading - Kent County Council

Wednesday 10 February

The House will sit at 3:00pm

Oral Questions - The role of the Leader of the House - Lord Campbell-Savours; Tamil population in Sri Lanka - Lord Sheikh; Electoral reform - Lord Tyler

Legislation - Fiscal Responsibility Bill - Second reading - Lord Myners