PRIVATE BUSINESS

Committee of Selection

No debate, and may not be proceeded with if opposed (Standing Order No. 20 )

Mr John Randall

To move, That Heidi Alexander, Tom Blenkinsop, Mr Alan Campbell, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Mr David Evennett, Mark Hunter, Anne Milton, Mr John Randall and Mark Tami be members of the Committee of Selection until the end of the current Session.

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

9.30am

Urgent Questions (if any)

Business Question to the Leader of the House

Ministerial Statements, including on Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. finance

Presentation of Bill, Second Reading and Committal: no debate (Standing Order No. 80B and Order of 15 April )

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

Bill to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

2. FINANCIAL SERVICES (BANKING REFORM)

Presentation of Bill and Second Reading: no debate (Standing Order No. 80A and Order of 11 March )

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

Bill to make further provision about banking and other financial services, including provision about the Financial Services Compensation Scheme; to make provision for the amounts owed in respect of certain deposits to be treated as a preferential debt on insolvency; to make provision about the accounts of the Bank of England and its wholly owned subsidiaries; and for connected purposes.

3. MARRIAGE (SAME SEX COUPLES)

Presentation of Bill and Second Reading: no debate (Standing Order No. 80A and Order of 5 February )

Secretary Maria Miller

Bill to make provision for the marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales, about gender change by married persons and civil partners, about consular functions in relation to marriage, for the marriage of armed forces personnel overseas, and for connected purposes.

4. ENERGY

Presentation of Bill and Second Reading: no debate (Standing Order No. 80A and Order of 19 December 2012 )

Secretary Edward Davey

Bill to make provision for the setting of a decarbonisation target range and duties in relation to it; for or in connection with reforming the electricity market for purposes of encouraging low carbon electricity generation or ensuring security of supply; for the establishment and functions of the Office for Nuclear Regulation; about the government pipe-line and storage system and rights exercisable in relation to it; about the designation of a strategy and policy statement; about domestic supplies of gas and electricity; for extending categories of activities for which energy licences are required; for the making of orders requiring regulated persons to provide redress to consumers of gas or electricity; about offshore transmission of electricity during a commissioning period; for imposing fees in connection with certain costs incurred by the Secretary of State; and for connected purposes.

5. CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Presentation of Bill and Second Reading: no debate (Standing Order No. 80A and Order of 25 February )

Secretary Michael Gove

Bill to make provision about children, families, and people with special educational needs; to make provision about the right to request flexible working; and for connected purposes.

6. PENSIONS

Presentation of Bill: no debate (Standing Order No. 57 )

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

Bill to make provision about pensions and about benefits payable to people in connection with bereavement; and for connected purposes.

7. ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, CRIME AND POLICING

Presentation of Bill: no debate (Standing Order No. 57 )

Secretary Theresa May

Bill to make provision about anti-social behaviour, crime and disorder, including provision about recovery of possession of dwelling-houses; to make provision amending the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, Schedules 7 and 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Extradition Act 2003; to make provision about firearms and about forced marriage; to make provision about the police, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Serious Fraud Office; to make provision about criminal justice and court fees; and for connected purposes.

8. GAMBLING (LICENSING AND ADVERTISING)

Presentation of Bill: no debate (Standing Order No. 57 )

Secretary Maria Miller

Bill to make provision about the licensing and advertising of gambling.

9. NORTHERN IRELAND (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)

Presentation of Bill: no debate (Standing Order No. 57)

Secretary Theresa Villiers

Bill to make provision about donations, loans and related transactions for political purposes in connection with Northern Ireland; to amend the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 and the Northern Ireland Act 1998; to make provision about the registration of electors and the administration of elections in Northern Ireland; and to make miscellaneous amendments in the law relating to Northern Ireland.

10. queen’s speech (motion for an address)

Adjourned debate (8 May): until 5.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.

Amendment (a)

Caroline Lucas

Line 5, at end add ‘but respectfully request that your Government recognise that its programme fails to address either the worsening climate crisis or that austerity is failing; call on your Government to heed warnings that urgent and radical cuts in emissions are needed to prevent global temperature rises of 4℃ or more by the end of the century; urge your Government to recognise that, to fulfil its own commitment to keep warming below 2 degrees, around 80 per cent of known fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground; further call on your Government to end austerity and instead reduce the deficit through an economic programme that prioritises investment in jobs, especially in labour-intensive green sectors and that pursues a goal of 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050, with policies for rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies; and further call on your Government to lift the council borrowing cap to promote council house building, to tackle the cost of public transport starting with bringing the railways back into public ownership, to end cuts to welfare and take other steps to build a resilient and stable economy.

Notes:

Proposed subject for debate: Home affairs

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 5.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Hezbollah and other Iranian-supported terrorist organisations: Mr Michael McCann

 

 

WRITTEN MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS

 STATEMENTS TO BE MADE TODAY

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1 . Operation of the UK’s Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime: 1 January to 31 March 2013

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

2 . Planning: Re-use of buildings

Secretary of State for Education

3 . Traineeships

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

4 . Agriculture and fisheries post Council statement

5 . Annual Report of the Veterinary Products Committee and its Sub-Committee 2012

Secretary of State for the Home Department

6 . Riot (Damages) Act 1886

Leader of the House

7 . Government’s Legislative Programme 2013-14

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

8 . Queen’s Speech–Application of the Government’s Legislative Programme to Northern Ireland

Secretary of State for Scotland

9 . Government’s Legislative Programme 2013-14 (Scotland)

Secretary of State for Wales

10 . Queen’s Speech–Application of the Government’s Legislative Programme to Wales

Notes:

Texts of Written Ministerial Statements are available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-written-statements/.

 

COMMITTEES MEETING TODAY

The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be changed without notice.

 SELECT COMMITTEES

International Development

Subject: Violence Against Women and Girls

Witnesses: Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State, and officials, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Lynne Featherstone MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, and officials, Department for International Development (at 9.30am)

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

8.45am (private), 9am (public), 11am (private)

Energy and Climate Change

Subject: Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty

Witnesses: Professor John Hills, London School of Economics, Dr Nick Eyre, University of Oxford, and Jan Rosenow, Senior Consultant in Energy and Climate Policy, Ricardo-AEA; Gervase MacGregor, Head of Advisory Services, BDO LLP (at 10.15am)

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

9am (private), 9.15am (public)

Environmental Audit

Subject: Well-Being

Witness : Professor Dieter Helm, Chair, Natural Capital Committee

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

10.30am (private), 10.45am (public)

Political and Constitutional Reform

Subject: Revisiting Rebuilding the House: the Impact of the Wright Reforms

Witnesses: Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP; Mr Clive Betts MP and Pete Wishart MP (at 11.30am); Natascha Engel MP, David Howarth and Mr Graham Brady MP (at 12.15pm)

Room 15

10.30am (private), 11am (public)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 FORTHCOMING END OF DAY ADJOURNMENT DEBATES

Tuesday 14 May to Tuesday 21 May

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 8 May. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 9 May.

 FUTURE DEPARTMENTS ANSWERING IN WESTMINSTER HALL

Applications for General or Short Debates should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or the rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 15 May. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 16 May. Members may submit applications to the Table Office in person or send a signed application through the post.

Weeks beginning 20 May and 10 June

The following Departments will answer:

Attorney General; Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Deputy Prime Minister; Energy and Climate Change; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Northern Ireland; Treasury; Wales; Women and Equalities

Weeks beginning 3 June and 17 June

The following Departments will answer:

Business, Innovation and Skills; Education; Health; Home Office; International Development; Justice; Leader of the House; Scotland; Transport; Work and Pensions

 ELECTION OF THE CHAIR OF THE BACKBENCH BUSINESS COMMITTEE

Nominations must be received in writing in the Lower Table Office between 10.00am and 5.00pm on Wednesday 15 May 2013 (the day before the ballot).

In accordance with Standing Order No. 122D(1)(c), no members of a party represented in Her Majesty’s Government may be candidates in this election.

Each nomination shall consist of a signed statement made by the candidate declaring their willingness to stand for election, accompanied by the signature of not fewer than 20, nor more than 25 Members, of whom no fewer than 10 shall be members of a party represented in Her Majesty’s Government and no fewer than 10 shall be members of a party not so represented or of no party.

If there is more than one candidate, the ballot will take place between 11.00am and 1.00pm on Thursday 16 May in Committee Room 16.

 PRIVATe members’ bills

Ballot Bills

The book for the ballot for Private Members’ Bills will be placed in the No Division Lobby on Tuesday 14 May and Wednesday 15 May between 11.30am and the rise of the House (except during a Division).

Members may enter in the list only one name, either their own or that of another Member who has authorised them to do so, and no name may appear more than once. A Member entering another’s name forfeits his or her own chance to enter the ballot.

The Speaker has appointed 9.00am on Thursday 16 May and Committee Room 10 as the time and place for holding the Ballot. The Chairman of Ways and Means will draw 20 names in reverse order. At about 9.30am on that day the list of successful Members (‘Result of the Ballot for Bills’) will be posted in the No Lobby and copies of this list will be available in the Vote Office. Members who win a place in the Ballot will be contacted by the clerk in charge of Private Members’ Bills about the subsequent procedure.

Presentation of Bills

Ballot Bills will be presented on Wednesday 19 June (SO No. 14(11)).

Following the agreement by the House on 17 December 2012 of dates of periodic adjournments, the earliest date to give notice of presentation of Bills under Standing Order No. 57 (Presentation and first reading) will be Thursday 20 June (SO No. 14(12)(b)) and the earliest day on which such bills may be presented will be Monday 24 June.

Ten Minute Rule Motions

Thursday 20 June will also be the earliest date on which notice can be given of a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill under Standing Order No. 23 (the ‘ten minute rule’), initially for Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 July.