Weekly Information Bulletin: 2nd April 2011
Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
4 – 8 April 2011
Monday 4 April
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation - Lord Dykes; Dispatch and return of postal ballots for voters in the armed force - Lord Wills; Resources available to the Ministry of Defences - Lord Lee of Trafford; Reorganisation of the primary care trusts - Lord Dubs
Orders and Regulations – Export Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2011; Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011; Patents County Court (Financial Limits) Order 2011 – Baroness Wilcox
Orders and Regulations – Licensing Act 2003 (Royal Wedding Licensing Hours) Order 2011; Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011 – Baroness Verma
Legislation – Public Bodies Bill [HL] - Report stage (Day 3) - Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Orders and Regulations – Draft Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (Remedial) Order 2010 – Baroness Neville-Jones
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm
Short Debate – Encouraging safer and healthier work places - Lord McKenzie of Luton
Short Debate – Supporting young people in the challenges they face, especially in developing countries - Baroness Morris of Bolton
Short Debate – Reducing obesity in the UK - Lord McColl of Dulwich
Short Debate – Supporting 16 to 18 year old students in full-time education - Lord Willis of Knaresborough
Tuesday 5 April
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions; Ceasing bilateral aid for Burundi - Lord Bishop of Wakefield; Withdrawing discretionary funding to the International Labour Organization - Lord Clinton-Davis; Joint replacement procedures in the NHS - Lord Walton of Detchant
Legislation – Building Regulations (Review) Bill [HL] - Third reading - Lord Harrison
Legislation – European Union Bill - Committee of the whole House - Lord Howell of Guildford
Orders and Regulations – Draft Legal Services Act 2007 (Approved Regulators) Order 2011 - Lord McNally
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:30pm
Orders and Regulations – Draft National Policy Statement for Waste Water - Lord Henley
Wednesday 6 April
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Oral Questions – Telephone hacking by newspapers - Lord Fowler; Joint Declaration by the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK regarding the financial management of EU Funds - Lord Campbell of Alloway; Kyrgyzstan one year on from the protest movement - Viscount Waverley
Legislation – Postal Services Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 4) - Baroness Wilcox
Thursday 7 April
The House will not be sitting.
Friday 8 April
The House will not be sitting.
Provisional Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
25 – 29 April 2011
Monday 25 April
The House will not be sitting.
Tuesday 26 April
The House will sit at 2:30pm
Oral Questions – Increasing the capacity for short-haul commercial flights at RAF Northolt - Lord Spicer; Continuing provision of training and practice in chiropody and podiatry services - Baroness Gardner of Parkes; Hostile takeover bids by foreign interests of UK companies of national or strategic significance - Lord Borrie
Legislation – European Union Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 2)
Motion – Regret motion on the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) (Revocation, Savings Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2011 - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath / Baroness Neville-Jones
Wednesday 27 April
The House will sit at 3:00pm
Oral Questions – Maintain the fee waiver after 2012 for students spending a year of their university degree courses abroad through the Erasmus scheme - Baroness Coussins; Eradicating oak processionary moth - Baroness Kramer; Reviews of the school curriculum and of Personal, Social and Health Education - Baroness Massey of Darwen
Legislation – Pensions Bill [HL] - Third reading – Freud
The House will sit in Grand Committee in the Moses Room at 3:45pm
Orders and Regulations – Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Amendment of List of Responders) Order 2011 – Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Orders and Regulations – Charities (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2011 – Baroness Verma
Orders and Regulations – Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 – Lord De Mauley
Orders and Regulations – Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 (Time Limit for Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 (Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme) (Rights of Appeal) Regulations 2011 – Lord Astor of Hever
Thursday 28 April
The House will sit at 11:00am
Oral Questions – Contribution by the EU and its predecessors to peace in Europe compared with that of NATO - Lord Pearson of Rannoch; Impact of the result of the Welsh Referendum on plans to resolve the West Lothian question - Baroness Seccombe; The National Music Plan - Lord Harrison
Motion – Approve the Government’s assessment as set out in the Budget Report, combined with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which forms the basis of the UK’s Convergence Programme - Lord Sassoon
Friday 29 April
The House will not be sitting.
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