Business Today: Chamber for Wednesday 8 January 2014

11.30am Prayers

Followed by

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

1Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)
If he will estimate the cumulative real-terms change to the Welsh block grant over the present Parliament. (901763)

2Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
What assessment he has made of job prospects in the renewables sector in Wales. (901764)

3Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South)
What assessment he has made of the effects on living standards in Wales of the measures announced in the Autumn Statement. (901765)

4Martin Caton (Gower)
If he will publish an impact assessment of the effect of the draft Wales Bill on cross-border areas. (901766)

5Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the roll-out of universal credit on people in Wales. (901767)

6Stephen Mosley (City of Chester)
What recent discussions he has had on future investment in transport infrastructure in Wales. (901768)

7Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon)
What assessment he has made of the effects on living standards in Wales of the measures announced in the Autumn Statement. (901769)

8Paul Flynn (Newport West)
What discussions he has had with the First Minister on increasing tourism opportunities in Newport in light of the NATO summit in Celtic Manor in 2014. (901770)

9Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
What steps he has taken to ensure that isolated properties in Wales not included in Welsh Government community schemes or the BT roll-out receive quality broadband. (901771)

10Mel Stride (Central Devon)
What discussions he has had on the potential benefits of shale gas extraction to Wales. (901772)

11Albert Owen (Ynys Môn)
What assessment he has made of the effects on living standards in Wales of the measures announced in the Autumn Statement. (901773)

12Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central)
What assessment he has made of the effects on Wales of the measures announced in the Autumn Statement. (901774)

13Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan)
What progress has been made on the roll-out of broadband in Wales; and if he will make a statement. (901775)

14Karen Lumley (Redditch)
What discussions he has had with his Ministerial colleagues and Ministers of the Welsh Government on transport infrastructure investment in Wales. (901776)

15Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire)
What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on investment in road infrastructure in Wales. (901777)

At 12.00pm

Oral Questions to the Prime Minister

Q1Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford)
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 8 January. (901793)

Q2Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East) (901794)

Q3Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) (901795)

Q4George Hollingbery (Meon Valley) (901796)

Q5Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran) (901797)

Q6Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North) (901798)

Q7Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) (901799)

Q8Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham) (901800)

Q9Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (901801)

Q10John Mann (Bassetlaw) (901802)

Q11Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central) (901803)

Q12Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) (901804)

Q13Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon) (901805)

Q14Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed) (901806)

Q15Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere) (901807)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

12.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements (if any)

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. Driving Offences (Review of Sentencing Guidelines): Ten Minute Rule Motion

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Susan Elan Jones

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to undertake a review of the maximum penalties for driving offences causing death and serious injury; and for connected purposes.

Notes:

The Member moving and a Member opposing this Motion may each speak for up to 10 minutes.

2. OPPOSITION DAY (16TH ALLOTTED DAY)

Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Housing

Edward Miliband

Hilary Benn

Emma Reynolds

Mr Chuka Umunna

Rachel Reeves

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House notes that the Government has failed to tackle the acute housing shortage which is central to the cost of living crisis and over the last three years has presided over the lowest level of new homes built since the 1920s, with home ownership falling, rents at record highs and rising faster than wages and a record five million people in the queue for social housing; further notes that net housing supply under this Government has fallen to its lowest level since records began, and that affordable housing supply dropped in the last year by 26 per cent, homes built for social rent dropped to a 20-year low, while there has been a 104 per cent increase in in-work housing benefit claimants since 2009; believes that the Government should take action to tackle the housing shortage; and calls on the Government to boost housing supply by reforming the development industry and introducing measures to tackle landbanking,

bringing forward plans to deliver a new generation of New Towns and Garden Cities and giving local authorities a new right to grow to deliver the homes their communities need.

Fixed odds betting terminals

Edward Miliband

Harriet Harman

Hilary Benn

Clive Efford

Roberta Blackman-Woods

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House is concerned that the clustering of betting shops in or close to deprived communities is being driven by increasing revenue from fixed odds betting terminals (FOBT) rather than traditional over the counter betting; believes that this has encouraged betting shop operators to open more than one premises in close proximity to one another; is aware of the growing concern in many communities about the detrimental effect this is having on the diversity and character of UK high streets; is alarmed that people can stake as much as £100 every 20 seconds on these machines; is further concerned that the practice of single staffing in betting shops leaves staff vulnerable and deters them from intervening if customers suffer heavy losses thereby undermining efforts by the betting industry to protect vulnerable customers; further believes that local authorities should be able to establish a separate planning class for betting shops and that they should be given additional licensing powers to determine the number of FOBT machines within existing and proposed shops and to require that the machines are modified to slow the rate of play and to interrupt when people play for long periods; and calls on the Government to put local people before the interests of the betting shop operators and give local authorities the powers they need to respond to concerns from their local communities and stop the proliferation of FOBT machines and betting shops.

Amendment (a)

The Prime Minister

The Deputy Prime Minister

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

Secretary Maria Miller

Secretary Eric Pickles

Mrs Helen Grant

Nick Boles

Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘understands the public concerns around fixed odds betting terminals regulated by the Gambling Act 2005; notes that the Government has made clear that it considers the future of B2 regulation to be unresolved; welcomes the Government-backed research into the effect of fixed odds betting terminals on problem gambling; believes that any development in the Government’s policy on this matter should be evidence-led; calls upon the betting industry to provide the data required for a proper understanding of the impact of fixed odds betting terminals; and further notes that local authorities already have planning powers to tackle localised problems and target specific areas where the cumulative impact of betting shops or other specific types of premises might be problematic, as well as licensing powers to tackle individual premises causing problems.’.

Notes:

The selection of the matters to be debated has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No. 14(2)).

3. EU REGULATORY FITNESS AND EFFECTIVE EVALUATION

No debate (Standing Order No. 119(11))

Michael Fallon

That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 13920/13, a Commission Communication: Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT)–Results and Next Steps, and No. 13921/13, a Commission Communication: Strengthening the foundations of Smart Regulation–improving evaluation; welcomes the Commission’s commitments to lessening the burden of EU regulation on business and its plans to improve its evaluation procedures; and supports the Government’s efforts to press the Commission for further and faster progress in reducing EU regulatory burdens on business and eliminating barriers to growth.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 7.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Work of UKTI in the West Midlands: Daniel Kawczynski

BUSINESS TODAY: WESTMINSTER HALL

 ORDER OF BUSINESS

The first part of the sitting will last for two hours. The second part of the sitting will last for two and a half hours (Standing Order No. 10(1)).

9.30am

Planning reform and local plans: Mr David Heath

11.00am

Work of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation: Mike Freer

Notes:

The sitting will be suspended from 11.30am to 2.30pm.

2.30pm

Health care in London: Ms Karen Buck

4.00pm

Scotch whisky excise duty: Mr Brian H. Donohoe

4.30pm

Rural broadband in North Yorkshire: Julian Sturdy

The debate will arise on a motion for the adjournment, to be moved by a Minister.

The second part of the sitting will be suspended and time added if divisions take place in the main Chamber (Standing Order No. 10(1)).

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Secretary of State for Transport

1.Air Navigation Guidance

Notes:

Texts of Written 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.

 Delegated Legislation Committees

First Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the Motion in the name of Mr Andrew Lansley relating to the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Room 9

2.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Public Administration

Subject: Crime Statistics

Witnesses: Stephen Greenhalgh, Deputy Mayor of London, and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner, Metropolitan Police; Tom Winsor, HM Inspector of Constabulary, and Olivia Pinkney, Assistant Inspector of Constabulary, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (at 10.30am)

Room 15

9.00am (private), 9.30am (public)

Science and Technology

Subject: Antimicrobial resistance

Witnesses: Professor Anthony Kessel, Director, Public Health Strategy, Public Health England, Dr Michael Moore, National Clinical Champion Antibiotic Stewardship, Royal College of General Practitioners, Professor Alison Holmes, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, and Dr Susan Hopkins, Chair, Healthcare Associated Infections Working Group, Royal College of Physicians; John Hardcastle, Chief Executive Officer, Novolytics, Dr David McIntosh, Global Scientific Affairs Senior Expert, Novartis, Professor George Lewith, Professor of Health Research, University of Southampton Medical School, and Doris-Ann Williams, Chief Executive, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (at 10.15am)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

9.00am (private), 9.15am (public)

Education

Subject: Residential children’s homes

Witnesses: Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England, and Luke Rodgers and Adam John Wood, Care leavers; Edward Timpson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education (at 10.30am)

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Energy and Climate Change

Subject: The 4th Carbon Budget review

Witnesses: Lord Deben, Chairman, and David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Work and Pensions

Room 8

9.15am (private)

International Development

Room 7

10.00am (private)

Defence

Room 16

2.00pm (private)

Environmental Audit

Subject: Plastic bags

Witnesses: British Polythene Industries Ltd, Italian Association of Bioplastics and Italian Composting Association, Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics Association, Professor Richard Thompson, Plymouth University, and Chase Plastics

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

European Scrutiny

Room 19

2.00pm (private)

Scottish Affairs

Subject: The Referendum on Separation for Scotland

Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, and James Brokenshire MP, Minister for Security, Home Office

Room 8

2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Committees on Arms Export Controls

Subject: Scrutiny of Arms Exports (2014)

Witnesses: Rt Hon William Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Richard Tauwhare, Head, and James Paver, Deputy Head, Arms Export Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

2.30pm (private), 2.45pm (public)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Subject: The Elliott Review

Witnesses: Professor Chris Elliott, Head, Professor Pat Troop, Expert to the Review, and Gary Copson, Expert to the Review, Food Supply Integrity Review

Room 15

2.30pm (private), 3.30pm (public)

Procedure

Room 20

3.00pm (private)

Northern Ireland Affairs

Subject: The banking structure in Northern Ireland

Witnesses: Sam Woods, Director, Domestic UK Banks, and Martin Stewart, Head, UK Banks and Mutuals, Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority

Room 5

3.45pm (private), 4.00pm (public)

Selection

Room 13

4.45pm (private)

 Joint Committees

Human Rights

Room 3A

9.30am (private)

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED TODAY

 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

7th Report: The Closure of DFID’s Bilateral Aid Programmes: the case of South Africa, HC 822

Time of publication: 00.01am

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 EXAMINERS OF PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS

High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill

Examination for applicability of and compliance with Private Business Standing Orders under Standing Order 224

Room 4A

10.00am (public)

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 14 January to Monday 20 January

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 January. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 9 January.

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 20 January

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 14 January. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 15 January.

Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Energy and Climate Change; Health; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Treasury; Women and Equalities.

Week beginning 27 January

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Deputy Prime Minister; Education; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Home Office; International Development; Justice; Transport; Wales; Work and Pensions.

 Determination of Business by the Backbench BUSINESS Committee

Thursday 16 January in the Chamber

General debate on child neglect and the criminal law: Mr Robert Buckland

General debate on nuisance calls: Mike Crockart, Alun Cairns

Appointments of debates in Westminster Hall by the Chairman of Ways and Means following recommendations by the Backbench Business Committee

Tuesday 14 January at 9.30am: General debate on economic effects of High Speed 2: Sheila Gilmore

Tuesday 21 January at 9.30am: General debate on funding for debt advice through the FCA levy: Mr Robin Walker, Damian Hinds