Weekly Information Bulletin: 19 February 2011
Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
28 February – 4 March 2011
Monday 28 February
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Progress of the Independent Commission on Banking – Baroness Kramer; Education and training for those in prisons and young offenders’ institutions – Lord Sheldon; Replacing the Child Trust Fund for children in the care of local authorities – Earl of Listowel; Effect of cuts in local government spending on Big Society proposals – Lord Dubs
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] – Committee of the whole House (Day 7) – Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Short Debate – Ensuring that Israel complies with United Nations resolutions and international law Last Tuesday
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm
Legislation – National Insurance Contributions Bill – Committee stage
Tuesday 1 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Cost to the Exchequer of Low Value Consignment Relief – Lord Lucas; Combating telephone hacking – Lord Fowler; Detecting tuberculosis amongst rough sleepers – Baroness Sharples;
Orders and Regulations – Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order 2011; Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Cap) Order 2011; Financial Assistance Scheme (Revaluation and Indexation Amendments) Regulations 2011; Social Security (Reduced Rates of Class 1 Contributions, Rebates and Minimum Contributions) Order 2011; Offshore Chemicals (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2011
Legislation – Fixed-term Parliaments Bill – Second reading
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] – Committee stage
Wednesday 2 March
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Oral Questions – Number of people employed in the tourism and hospitality sectors – Lord Lee of Trafford; Mutual ownership and the sale of banks in which the government has a stake – Lord Borrie; Entry into force of the Bribery Act 2010 – Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Legislation – Energy Bill [HL] – Report stage – Lord Marland
Short Debate – Lord Astor of Hever
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm
Orders and Regulations – Draft Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work Experience) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Orders and Regulations – Draft Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments to the Mobile Homes Act 1983) Order 2011; Draft Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment of Schedule 1 and Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2011; Draft Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Jurisdiction of Residential Property Tribunals) (England) Order 2011
Thursday 3 March
The House will sit at 11:00am
Introduction(s) – The Rt Hon David Mclean
Oral Questions – Increasing the number if apprenticeships offered by Network Rail and other large organisations – Lord Bradshaw; Use of light rail vehicles to provide low-cost passenger train operations on lower-traffic routes – Lord Berkeley; Resumption of Palestine Israeli negotiations in light of recent civil unrest in Arab countries – Lord Dykes
Debate – Challenges for women in the centenary year of International Women’s Day – Baroness Gould of Potternewton
Debate – Disposal of the Forestry Commission estate – Lord Clark of Windermere
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] – Committee stage (Day 2)
Friday 4 March
The House will sit at 10:00am
Legislation – Dog Control Bill [HL] – Committee of the whole House – Lord Redesdale
Legislation – Live Music Bill [HL] – Second reading – Lord Clement-Jones
Legislation – Building Regulations (Review) Bill [HL] – Committee of the whole House – Lord Harrison
Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
7 – 11 March 2011
Monday 7 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Publicising census day on 27 March - Lord Newby; Child trafficking at Eurostar terminals in France and Belgium - Baroness Doocey; Number of young people to be affected by the cancellation of the Education Maintenance Allowance - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Restoring the right of appeal against refusal of asylum to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people from Jamaica, Nigeria and Ghana - Lord Avebury
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 8) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Tuesday 8 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Introduction(s) – Lord Glasman - Lord Glasman
Oral Questions – Involvement of local and regional women’s organisations in the Big Society - Baroness Gould of Potternewton; Supporting the development of credit unions in the UK - Lord Kennedy of Southwark; Assisting pregnant women who no longer qualify for a maternity grant and a health in pregnancy grant - Baroness Gale
Legislation – Energy Bill [HL] - Report stage (Day 2) - Lord Marland
Orders and Regulations – Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2011
Wednesday 9 March
The House will sit at 3.00pm
Oral Questions – Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in Bloom campaign and the Big Society - Baroness Gardner of Parkes; British pensioners living abroad - Lord Shipley; Impact of redundancy cuts and budget restrictions on local authorities - Lord Beecham
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 9) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Thursday 10 March
The House will sit at 11:00am
Oral Questions – Impact of Disability Living Allowance on people with Autism - Baroness Browning; Prostitution - Baroness Stern; Anti-Semetic incidents in 2010 - Baroness Deech
Debate – Recent developments in the British Overseas Territories - Baroness Hooper
Debate – Zimbabwe - Lord Avebury
Friday 11 March
The House will not be sitting.
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