Weekly Information Bulletin: 11th December 2010
Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
13 – 17 December 2010
Monday 13 December
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Involving disabled people in the decisions taken by Ministers that affect them - Baroness Campbell of Surbiton; Alleviating hardship suffered by people living Gaza - Lord Fowler; Ability of Parliament to hold Her Majesty's Government to account - Baroness Royall of Blaisdon; Legal aid and Family Courts - Baroness Deech
Legislation – Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 4) - Lord McNally
Short Debate – World population growth – Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
Tuesday 14 December
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Repatriation from the European Union - Lord Spicer; Opening times for retail premises on Remembrance Sunday - Lord Davies of Coity; British Indian Ocean Territory Fund - Baroness Whitaker
Orders and Regulations – Draft Post office Network Subsidy Scheme (Amendment) Order 2010 and the draft National minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 – Baroness Wilcox
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 4) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Orders and Regulations – Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2010 – Lord Henley
Wednesday 15 December
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Oral Questions; Implementation of the Olympic Truce at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - Lord Bates; Role of China in the development of the infrastructure and economy of Burma - Lord Elton; Changing the National Census - Lord Naseby
Orders and Regulations – Draft Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) (Amendment) Order 2010 – Earl Atlee
Legislation – Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 5) - Lord McNally
Short debate – Future of hospices and palliative care services – Viscount Bridgeman
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm
Debate – Draft United Kingdom Marine Policy Statement – Consideration in Grand Committee – Lord Henley
Thursday 16 December
The House will sit at 11:00am
Oral Questions – Impact on women of the Government's economic policies - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Prohibiting the wearing of masks or disguises at demonstrations - Baroness Miller of Hendon; Dialogue between Indonesia and the indigenous West Papuan opposition - Lord Harries of Pentregarth
Debate – To move that the 3rd Report from the Select Committee (HL Paper 71) to be agreed
Debate – Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Lord Moynihan
Debate – The reorganisation of the National Health Service - Lord Touhig
Orders and Regulations – Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (Directions to OFCOM) order 2010
Royal Assent
Friday 17 December
The House will not be sitting.
Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
20 – 22 December 2010
Monday 20 December
The House will sit at 2:15pm
Introduction(s) – Sir Robert Balchin, Andrew Feldman Esq and Michael Dobbs Esq
Oral Questions – The age of criminal responsibility - The Earl of Listowel; The benefits system - Lord German; NHS targets - Lord Wills; Exclusion of shares listed on the alternative investment market from eligibility from Individual Savings Accounts – Lord Lee of Trafford
Legislation – Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 4) - Lord McNally
Short Debate – Principles of global health and medical education – Lord Crisp
Tuesday 21 December
The House will sit at 2:15pm
Introduction(s) – Sir Patrick Cormack, John Sharkey Esq and Sir Robert Ribeiro
Oral Questions – Definition of a "working peer" - Lord Selsdon; Treatment of prisoners - Lord Sheldon; Bachelor of Science degrees for courses in alternative medicines - Lord Taverne
Legislation – Re-Export controls Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 1) - Lord Alton of Liverpool
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 4) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Orders and Regulations – Draft Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010, Draft Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 – Lord Henley
Wednesday 22 December
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Introduction(s) – Fiona Shackleton LVO and Dee Doocey OBE
Oral Questions; Government investment in science - Baroness Jones of Whitchurchp; Funding for British Council Language Assistants Programmes - Baroness Coussins; Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy - Lord Eden of Winton
Legislation – Energy Bill [HL] – Lord Marland
Royal Assent
N.B. The House will rise for the Christmas Recess at the close of business
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