Weekly Information Bulletin: 12th March 2011
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 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 Tankerness
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3.30pm
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] - Committee stage (Day 3)
Wednesday 16 March
The House will sit at 3.00pm
Royal Assent
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
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm
Orders and Regulations – Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011; Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating) Order 2011 - Lord Sassoon; Road Vehicles (Powers to Stop) Regulations 2011 - Lord Shutt of Greetland; Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 - Lord McNally; Marine Licensing (Licence Application Appeals) Regulations 2011; Marine Licensing (Notices Appeals) Regulations 2011; Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 - Lord Henley; Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011 - Baroness Hanham
Thursday 17 March
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
Debate – European Union document 6007/11 relating to Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime – Lord Hannay of Chiswick
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 2.00pm
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] - Committee stage (Day 4)
Friday 18 March
The House will not be sitting.
Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
21 – 25 March 2011
Monday 21 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – British pig farmers - Lord Hoyle; Plans to replace HMS Endurance as the Antarctic ice patrol vessel - Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; The political situation in Somalia - Lord Anderson of Swansea; Remploy Ltd, the specialist employer of disabled people and the decision to make redundancies - Baroness Turner of Camden
Legislation – Fixed-term Parliaments Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 2)
Orders and Regulations – Adoption of draft European Council Decision EUCO 33/10 relating to the stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro - Lord Howell of Guildford
Tuesday 22 March
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Sales of tenancy farms by local authorities - Lord Harrison; Regulation of the arms trade - Lord Judd; Commemorating the centenary of the Great War - Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Legislation – European Union Bill - Second reading
Legislation – National Insurance Contributions Bill - Third reading
Wednesday 23 March
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Oral Questions – The extradition of Gary McKinnon - Lord Maginnis of Drumglass; Video Recordings Act 2010 - Lord Clement-Jones; Changes to the law in Wales relating to organ donation - Lord Wigley
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Report stage - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Short Debate – The regulatory burdens on British agriculture – Baroness Byford
Thursday 24 March
The House will sit at 11:00am
Oral Questions – The role learning English plays in integration - Lord Greaves; The cost of the reorganisation of the NHS - Baroness Williams of Crosby; Challenging judgments of the European Court of Human Rights - Lord Marlesford
Debate – Government policies to promote enterprise, growth and rebalancing of the economy - Lord Lawson of Blaby
Friday 25 March
The House will not be sitting.
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