Business Today: Chamber for Wednesday 5 February 2014

11.30am Prayers

Followed by

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

1Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex)
What steps his Department is taking to encourage Scottish business leaders to participate in the independence debate. (902338)

2Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan)
What recent discussions he has had with Scottish local authorities on changes to housing benefit. (902339)

3Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian)
What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on increased National Insurance costs for public bodies in Scotland resulting from the introduction of the Single Tier Pension. (902340)

4Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran)
What change there has been in average household energy bills in Scotland since May 2010. (902341)

5Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)
How many cases of non-payment of the minimum wage have been detected in Scotland since 2010; how many such cases have been prosecuted; and how many employers have been named and shamed for non-payment. (902343)

6Mel Stride (Central Devon)
What assessment his Department has made of recent developments in the job market in Scotland. (902344)

7Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes)
What assessment he has made of the Scottish Government's white paper entitled Scotland's Future; and if he will make a statement. (902345)

8Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
What discussions he has had with ministers in the Scottish Government on the funding of pensions in Scotland after 2014. (902346)

9Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts)
How many businesses in Scotland have been prosecuted for non-payment of the minimum wage since 2010. (902347)

10Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the operation of prisoner transfers between England and Scotland. (902348)

11Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire)
How many businesses in Scotland have been prosecuted for non-payment of the minimum wage since 2010. (902349)

12Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire)
What discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales on the potential effect of a vote for Scottish independence. (902350)

13Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect on living standards in Scotland of an increase in the minimum wage. (902351)

14Caroline Dinenage (Gosport)
What steps his Department is taking to encourage Scottish business leaders to participate in the independence debate. (902352)

At 12.00 pm

Oral Questions to the Prime Minister

Q1Sir Richard Ottaway (Croydon South)
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 5 February. (902398)

Q2Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk) (902399)

Q3Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry) (902400)

Q4Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness) (902401)

Q5Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome) (902402)

Q6Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock) (902403)

Q7Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire) (902404)

Q8Jessica Lee (Erewash) (902405)

Q9Henry Smith (Crawley) (902406)

Q10Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (902407)

Q11Mel Stride (Central Devon) (902408)

Q12Mr John Spellar (Warley) (902409)

Q13Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (902410)

Q14Pat Glass (North West Durham) (902411)

Q15Jim McGovern (Dundee West) (902412)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

12.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements (if any)

 Presentation of Bills

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

Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

Secretary Chris Grayling

Bill to make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (FIDUCIARY DUTIES): TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Phil Wilson

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to place a fiduciary duty on those involved in managing an investment to act in the best interest of investors, including pension savers, in a transparent and accountable way; 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 (UNALLOTTED DAY)

Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3) and Order of 4 February)

NHS

Edward Miliband

Andy Burnham

Liz Kendall

Hilary Benn

Luciana Berger

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House is concerned about recent pressure in Accident and Emergency departments and the increase in the number of people attending hospital A&Es since 2009-10; notes a recent report by the Care Quality Commission which found that more than half a million people aged 65 and over were admitted as an emergency to hospital with potentially avoidable conditions in the last year; believes that better integration to improve care in the home or community can relieve pressure on A&E; notes comments made by the Chief Executive of NHS England in oral evidence to the Health Select Committee on 5 November 2013, that the NHS is getting bogged down in a morass of competition law, that this is causing significant cost and that to make integration happen there may need to be legislative change; is further concerned that the competition aspects of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 are causing increased costs in the NHS at a time when there is a shortage of A&E doctors; and calls on the Government to reverse its changes to NHS competition policy that are holding back the integration needed to help solve the A&E crisis and diverting resources which should be better spent on improving patient care.

Amendment (a)

The Prime Minister

The Deputy Prime Minister

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

Danny Alexander

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

Secretary Eric Pickles

Secretary Jeremy HuntNorman Lamb

Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘notes the strong performance of NHS accident and emergency departments this winter; further notes that the average waiting time to be seen in A&E has more than halved since 2010; commends the hard work of NHS staff who are seeing more people and carrying out more operations every year since May 2010; notes that this has been supported by the Government’s decision to protect the NHS budget and to shift resources to frontline patient care, delivering 12,000 more clinical staff and 23,000 fewer administrators; welcomes changes to the GP contract which restore the personal link between doctors and their most vulnerable patients; welcomes the announcement of the Better Care Fund which designates £3.8 billion to join up health and care provision and the Integration Pioneers to provide better care closer to home; believes that clinicians are in the best position to make judgements about the most appropriate care for their patients; notes that rules on tendering are no different to the rules that applied to primary care trusts; and, a year on from the publication of the Francis Report, notes that the NHS is placing an increased emphasis on compassionate care, integration, transparency, safe staffing and patient safety.’.

Job insecurity

Edward Miliband

Chuka Umunna

Rachel Reeves

Ed Balls

Stephen Timms

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House believes that insecurity at work has increased under this Government, compounding the cost of living crisis facing families; further believes that the Government’s policies have made life less secure for people at work by watering down their rights, including protections against unfair dismissal and by abandoning an evidence-based approach to health and safety; notes that the number of employees working part-time who want to work full-time has grown by over 350,000 since the Government took office to over 1.4 million, alongside a marked rise in zero-hours contracts; recognises that insecure jobs add to pressure on the social security budget by making it harder for people to buy a home or save for their own pension; calls on the Government to reverse the trend of rising insecurity at work by reforming zero-hours contracts so they are not exploitative, addressing false self-employment by closing loopholes which allow it to take place, scrapping the failed ‘shares for rights’ scheme, strengthening and properly enforcing the National Minimum Wage, including by increasing fines to £50,000 and giving local authorities enforcement powers, and incentivising employers to pay a Living Wage through ‘make work pay’ contracts; and further calls on the Government to adopt a proper industrial strategy to help create more high-skilled, better paid jobs so the UK can earn its way out of the cost of living crisis with stronger and better-balanced growth.

Notes:

The selection of the matters to be debated has been made by the Leader of the Opposition.

3. FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

Sajid Javid

That the draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 14 January, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

4. FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

Sajid Javid

That the draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consumer Credit) (Designated Activities) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 14 January, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

5. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

The Deputy Prime Minister

That the draft Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, which were laid before this House on 18 December 2013, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

6. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

The Deputy Prime Minister

That the draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, which were laid before this House on 18 December 2013, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

7. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

The Deputy Prime Minister

That the draft Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Commencement No. 4 and Consequential Provision) Order 2013, which was laid before this House on 6 November 2013, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

8. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

No debate (Standing Order No. 118(6))

The Deputy Prime Minister

That the draft Political Parties, Elections and Referendums (Civil Sanctions) (Amendment) Order 2013, which was laid before this House on 16 July 2013, be approved.

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

9. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

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

Nicky Morgan

That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 12772/13 and Addenda 1 to 5, a Commission Report to the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests: Fight against fraud 2012 Annual Report, and unnumbered European Union Documents, the European Court of Auditors’ Annual Report concerning the financial year 2012 and the European Court of Auditors’ Annual Report on the activities funded by the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth European Development Funds; agrees that budgetary discipline and robust financial management at all levels remains crucial, including to support domestic efforts to tackle the deficit and debt, especially given the continuing fiscal constraints and fragile economic recovery across the EU; believes that it is unacceptable that the EU budget has failed to be given an unqualified audit by the European Court of Auditors for the nineteenth year; supports the Government’s decision to vote against granting discharge to the EU budget and to press the Commission for a clear action plan to address the European Court of Auditors’ recommendations relating to the European Development Fund; and encourages the Government to continue to work with other like-minded Member States to put pressure on the Commission and all those involved in the management of EU funds for clear, positive and urgent improvement to the quality of EU spending.

Relevant documents:

Seventeenth Report from the European Scrutiny Committee, HC 83-xvi, Chapter 4

Twenty-sixth Report from the European Scrutiny Committee, HC 83-xxiii, Chapters 3 and 4

Notes:

If this item is opposed after 7.00pm, the division will be deferred.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

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

Job losses in the china clay industry: Stephen Gilbert

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

Housing in London: Teresa Pearce

11.00am

Single staffing in betting shops: Chris Evans

Notes:

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

2.30pm

Humanitarian situation in Gaza: Sir Tony Baldry

4.00pm

Community infrastructure levy and developers’ contributions in West Berkshire: Richard Benyon

4.30pm

Gender-specific marketing of children’s toys: Chi Onwurah

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 Communities and Local Government

1.Local Government Finance

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

2.Foreign Affairs Council and General Affairs Council: 10-11 February 2014

Secretary of State for the Home Department

3.Police Grant Report England and Wales 2014-15

Secretary of State for Justice

4.Judicial Review

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.

 GRAND Committees

Welsh Grand Committee

Government Response to Part I of the Commission on Devolution in Wales

Room 10

9.30am (public)

Welsh Grand Committee

Government Response to Part I of the Commission on Devolution in Wales

Room 10

2.00pm (public)

 European Committees

European Committee B

To consider the Unnumbered European Union Document, the European Court of Auditors Special Report No. 9/2013-EU support for governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Room 11

8.55am (public)

 Delegated Legislation Committees

Seventh Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Room 12

2.30pm (public)

Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) (Amendment) Order 2014

Room 9

2.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Science and Technology

Subject: Blood, tissue and organ screening

Witnesses: Mark Ward, Secretary, and Joseph Peaty, Head of Publicity, TaintedBlood, Liz Carroll, Chief Executive, Haemophilia Society, Dr Matthew Buckland, Chair, Medical Advisory Panel, UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network, and Consultant Immunologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, and Christine Lord; Professor Marc Turner, Chair, Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs Prion Group, and Chair, UK Blood Services Prion Working Group, Dr Roland Salmon, Acting Chair, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, and Dr Sheila MacLennan, Professional Director, UK Blood Services Joint Professional Advisory Committee (at 10.15am)

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

9.00am (private), 9.15am (public)

Education

Subject: Academies and free schools

Witnesses: Andrew McCully, Director General for Infrastructure and Funding, Dominic Herrington, Director of Academies Group, Mela Watts, Director of Free Schools Group, and Sue Baldwin, Director of Academies and Maintained Schools Group, Education Funding Agency, Department for Education

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Work and Pensions

Room 16

9.15am (private)

International Development

Room 13

10.00am (private)

Business, Innovation and Skills

Subject: Implications of Scottish Independence on business; higher education and research; and postal services

Witnesses: Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State, and Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

10.15am (private), 10.45am (public)

Environmental Audit

Subject: Marine protected areas

Witnesses: Wildlife Trusts, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Marine Conservation Society; Marine Biological Association, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and National Oceanography Centre (at 3.00pm)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)

European Scrutiny

Room 19

2.00pm (private)

Finance and Services

Room 13

2.00pm (private)

Public Accounts

Subject: Asylum Accommodation

Witnesses: James Thorburn, Managing Director, Home Affairs, Serco, Stephen Small, Managing Director, Immigration and Borders, G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited, and James Vyvyan-Roberts, Managing Director, Clearsprings; Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, John Fernau, Commercial Director, and Glyn Williams, Director of Asylum, Home Office (at 3.00pm)

Room 15

2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)

Scottish Affairs

Subject: The Referendum on Separation for Scotland

Witnesses: Professor Ronald MacDonald, Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow, Dr Angus Armstrong, Head of Macroeconomics and Finance Group, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, and Professor David Bell, Professor of Economics, Stirling University

Room 6

2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Subject: Primates as Pets

Witnesses: Wild Futures, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and City of London Corporation; Monkey World, British Veterinary Zoological Society, and Dr Lisa Riley, Primatologist and independent consultant in animal welfare (at 3.30pm); Lord de Mauley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (at 4.00pm)

Room 16

2.30pm (private), 3.00pm (public)

Procedure

Room 20

3.00pm (private)

Statutory Instruments

Room 7

As soon as convenient after 3.45pm (private)

Selection

Room 13

4.45pm (private)

 Joint Committees

Human Rights

Room 3A

10.30am (private)

Statutory Instruments

Room 7

3.45pm (private)

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED TODAY

 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

41st Report: Gift Aid and other tax reliefs on charitable donations, HC 835

Time of publication: 00.01am

42nd Report: The Charity Commission, HC 792

Time of publication: 00.01am

 SCOTTISH Affairs

2nd Special Report: The Referendum on Separation for Scotland: A Defence Force for Scotland–A Conspiracy of Optimism?: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report of Session 2013–14, HC 1042

Time of publication: 00.01am

 EUROPEAN SCRUTINY

31st Report, HC 83-xxviii

Time of publication: 11.00am

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 11 February to Thursday 13 February

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 5 February. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 6 February.

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 24 February

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Deputy Prime Minister; Education; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Wales; Women and Equalities.

Week beginning 3 March

Defence; Energy and Climate Change; Health; Home Office; Justice; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Transport; Treasury; Work and Pensions.

 Determination of Business by the Backbench Committee

Thursday 13 February in the Chamber

Debate on a motion relating to the Normington Report on reform of the Police Federation: Mr David Davis

General debate on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer report on cancer priorities in the NHS: Mr John Baron

Monday 24 February in Westminster Hall

General debate on an e-petition relating to holiday companies charging extra in school holidays: John Hemming

Appointment of a debate in Westminster Hall by the Chairman of Ways and Means following a recommendation by the Backbench Business Committee

Tuesday 11 February at 9.30am: VAT and the tourism sector: Ms Margaret Ritchie