Weekly Information Bulletin: 5th March 2011
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; 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; Preventing children being trafficked into the UK through King's Cross St Pancras International - Baroness Doocey
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 8) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Orders and Regulations – Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2011 - Motion of regret - Baroness Sherlock
Tuesday 8 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Introduction(s) – Lord Glasman and the Lord Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich
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
Orders and Regulations – Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work Experience) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 – Lord Freud
Legislation – Postal Services Bill - Committee of the whole House - Baroness Wilcox
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 Baroness Neville-Jones
Wednesday 9 March
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm
Orders and Regulations – Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2011;
Orders and Regulations – 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 - Lord Freud
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 – Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No.2) Bill – - Second reading – Lord Sassoon
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Committee of the whole House (Day 9) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Short Debate – Royal Commission on the law governing drug use and possession - Lord Norton of Louth
Thursday 10 March
The House will sit at 11:00am
Introduction(s) – Lord Blencathra
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
Short Debate – Affects of points-based visa system on non-European Union artists, performers and academics - Earl of Clancarty
Friday 11 March
The House will not be sitting.
Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
14 – 18 March 2011
Monday 14 March
The House will sit at 2.30pm
Oral Questions – Targeting Health Visitor service at those families in greatest need - Lord Northbourne; Botswana and the 1966 constitution, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its dealings with bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve - Lord Pearson of Rannoch; Allowing the Prime Minister to be a member of the House of Lords in an elected House of Lords - Lord Lamont of Lerwick; Training paramedics and ambulance crews in the diagnosis and treatment of those with sickle-cell disease - Baroness Benjamin
Orders and Regulations – Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2011; Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2011 – Lord Freud
Legislation – National Insurance Contributions Bill - Report stage - Lord Sassoon
Legislation – Postal Services Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 2)
Orders and Regulations – Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2011; Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2011 – Lord Freud
Tuesday 15 March
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3.30pm
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] - Committee stage (Day 3)
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland - Lord Smith of Clifton; Intention that the life peers they have appointed should be peers for life - Lord Grocott; Hijacking of UK shipping by Somali pirates - Lord Naseby
Legislation – Energy Bill [HL] - Third reading - Lord Marland
Legislation – Fixed-term Parliaments Bill - Committee of the whole House - Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Wednesday 16 March
The House will sit at 3.00pm
Oral Questions – Sufficient capacity in the London airport system to accommodate the forecast expansion of passenger demand - Lord Spicer; Maltreatment of patients in NHS hospitals - Baroness Knight of Collingtree; Promoting and supporting the rule of law in the countries of the Middle East - Lord Soley
Legislation – Postal Services Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 3)
Orders and Regulations – Employment and Support Allowance (Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 – Lord Kirkwood
Thursday 17 March
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 2.00pm
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] - Committee stage (Day 4)
The House will sit at 11:00am
Oral Questions – Improving gender and ethnic diversity in judicial appointments - Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames; Comments made by the Chancellor to the Governor of the Bank of England in his letter of 16 February - Lord Barnett; The Government's position on the sex offenders register and the independence of the judiciary - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Debate – Legislation regarding bribery, tax avoidance, corruption and money laundering - Baroness Williams of Crosby
Debate – The cost-effectiveness, and impact on quality of life, of early intervention in the first years of a child’s life - Baroness Walmsley
Friday 18 March
The House will not be sitting.
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