Business Today: Chamber for Monday 13 January 2014

2.30pm Prayers

Followed by

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

1Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
What plans he has to improve the work capability assessment. (901893)

2John Robertson (Glasgow North West)
How many claimants have received the personal independence payment since April 2013. (901894)

3Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire)
What assessment he has made of recent trends in the award of discretionary housing payments. (901895)

4Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire)
What recent estimate he has made of potential savings to the public purse arising from implementation of the benefit cap. (901896)

5Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)
What recent assessment he has made of Capita's timescales for processing medical assessments for personal independence payments and providing them to his Department. (901897)

6Fiona Bruce (Congleton)
What recent assessment he has made of the OECD disability spend. (901898)

7Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
What assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the most recent employment statistics. (901899)

8Ann McKechin (Glasgow North)
What steps he is taking to increase the ability of employment and support allowance claimants in the work-related activity group to gain paid employment. (901900)

9Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry)
What assessment he has made of recent trends in the award of discretionary housing payments. (901901)

10Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough)
What recent assessment he has made of trends in auto-enrolment. (901902)

11Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon)
What transitional arrangements his Department will make in respect of the ending of basic state pension inheritance. (901903)

12Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
What assessment he has made of the appropriateness of eligibility criteria for funeral payments allocated from the Social Fund. (901904)

13Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal)
What assessment he has made of recent trends in the award of discretionary housing payments. (901905)

14Michael Ellis (Northampton North)
What assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the most recent employment statistics. (901906)

15Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde)
What recent assessment he has made of whether the current timetable for the roll-out of universal credit is achievable. (901907)

16Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe)
What assessment he has made of the effect of the under-occupancy penalty on household incomes. (901909)

17Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead)
What assessment he has made of the effect of the under-occupancy penalty on carers. (901910)

18Nigel Mills (Amber Valley)
What plans he has for the habitual residence test. (901911)

19Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton)
What his most recent estimate is of the number of people who will be claiming universal credit by April 2014. (901912)

20Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
How many adults and young people have been helped to find employment by Kettering Jobcentre Plus in each of the last three years. (901913)

21Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire)
At what level the Government plans to set the pensions price cap. (901914)

22Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire)
What steps he is taking to create more employment opportunities for young people. (901915)

23Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East)
What assessment he has made of the extent to which the benefit cap has helped people return to work. (901916)

24Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire)
What assessment he has made of recent trends in the award of discretionary housing payments. [R] (901917)

At 3.15pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

T1Neil Carmichael (Stroud)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (901883)

T2Richard Graham (Gloucester) (901884)

T3Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East) (901885)

T4Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North) (901886)

T5Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (901887)

T6Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton) (901888)

T7Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon) (901889)

T8Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton) (901891)

T9Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire) (901892)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

3.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements, including on Syria

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]: Second Reading

Until 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Relevant documents:

23rd Report from the European Scrutiny Committee, Session 2012-13, HC 86-xxiii, Chapter 11

25th Report from the European Scrutiny Committee, HC 83-xxii, Chapter 1

2. EUROPEAN UNION (APPROVALS) BILL [LORDS]: PROGRAMME

No debate (Standing Order No. 83A(7))

Secretary Maria Miller

That the following provisions shall apply to the European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]:

Committal

(1) The Bill shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Proceedings in Committee, on Consideration and Third Reading

(2) Proceedings in Committee, any proceedings on Consideration and proceedings on Third Reading shall be taken in one day in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

(3) Proceedings in Committee and any proceedings on Consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.

(4) Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

Programming committee

(5) Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the proceedings on the Bill in Committee of the whole House, to any proceedings on Consideration or to proceedings on Third Reading.

Other proceedings

(6)Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of any message from the Lords) may be programmed.

3. BACKBENCH BUSINESS

Until 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Welfare Reforms and Poverty

Mr Michael Meacher

Sir Peter Bottomley

John Hemming

That this House believes that a commission of inquiry should be established to investigate the impact of the Government’s welfare reforms on the incidence of poverty.

Notes:

The subject for this debate was determined by the Backbench Business Committee.

4. SPEAKER’S COMMITTEE FOR THE INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS AUTHORITY

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6) and Order of 16 December 2013)

Mr Andrew Lansley

That in pursuance of paragraph 2A of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, as amended, Professor Monojit Chatterji be appointed as lay member of the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, for a period of three years from 26 January 2014.

Notes:

An explanatory memorandum is available in the Vote Office.

If this item is opposed after 10.00pm, the division will be deferred.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 10.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Oral cancer: Sir Paul Beresford

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Secretary of State for Defence

1.Departmental Minute concerning UNSCR 2118

Secretary of State for the Home Department

2.Drug policy

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.

 European Committees

European Committee B

To consider Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 27 August 2013, submitted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the European External Action Service

Room 10

4.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Public Accounts

Subject: Free Schools

Witnesses: Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, and Peter Lauener, Chief Executive Officer, Education Funding Agency

Room 15

3.00pm (private), 3.15pm (public)

Communities and Local Government

Meeting Room U, Portcullis House

4.00pm (private)

Transport

Subject: Passenger transport in isolated communities

Witnesses: Janice Banks, Chief Executive, Action with Communities in Rural England, Claire Haigh, Chief Executive, Greener Journeys, and Stephen Joseph, Chief Executive, Campaign for Better Transport; Bill Freeman, Chief Executive, and Ewan Jones, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Operations, Community Transport Association, Martin Higginson, Adviser, Association of Local Bus Company Managers, and Claire Walters, Chief Executive, Bus Users UK (at 4.45pm); Neil Buxton, General Manager, Association of Community Rail Partnerships, and David Mapp, Commercial Director, Association of Train Operating Companies (at 5.25pm)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

4.00pm (private), 4.05pm (public)

Administration

Room 16

4.30pm (private)

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED

 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

6th Report: FCO performance and finances 2012–13, HC 696

Date and time of publication: Friday 10 January 00.01am

 HOME AFFAIRS

4th Special Report: Pre-Lisbon Treaty EU police and criminal justice measures: the UK’s opt-in decision: Government Response to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 954

Date and time of publication: Friday 10 January 00.01am

 TRANSPORT

12th Special Report: Local authority parking enforcement: Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2013–14, HC 970

Date and time of publication: Friday 10 January 00.01am

 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

5th Special Report: Truth to Power: How Civil Service reform can succeed: Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 955

Date and time of publication: Friday 10 January 11.00am

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 21 January to Monday 27 January

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 15 January. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 16 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.

 Notices of Meetings of General Committees

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Tuesday 14 January at 8.55am and 2.00pm and Thursday 16 January at 11.30am and 2.00pm further to consider the Care Bill [Lords].

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Wednesday 15 January at 9.00am to consider the House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill [Lords].

A Public Bill Committee will meet on Wednesday 15 January at 2.30pm to consider the Deep Sea Mining Bill.

European Committee B will meet on Monday 13 January at 4.30pm to consider the Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 27 August 2013, submitted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on the European External Action Service.

The First Delegated Legislation Committee will meet on Tuesday 14 January at 2.30pm to consider the draft Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 and the draft Costs in Criminal Cases (Legal Costs) (Exceptions) Regulations 2013.