Business Today: Chamber for Tuesday 25 February 2014

11.30am Prayers

Followed by

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

1David Rutley (Macclesfield)
What progress he has made on improving out of hospital care for the frail and elderly. (902623)

2Steve Brine (Winchester)
What recent steps he has taken to improve maternity care. (902624)

3Laura Sandys (South Thanet)
What progress has been made on introducing a cap on care costs. (902625)

4Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe)
What assessment he has made of the role of dispensing doctors in the NHS. (902626)

5Mr Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
Whether patients are able to opt out of the General Practice Extraction Service by telephone or online. (902627)

6Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow)
What recent assessment he has made of the number of available mental health crisis beds for young people in England. (902629)

7Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight)
What proportion of medicines prescribed in the NHS are alternative medicines; and what the annual cost is of dispensing such prescriptions. (902630)

8Margot James (Stourbridge)
What steps his Department is taking to tackle female genital mutilation. (902631)

9Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon)
What steps his Department is taking to improve the health of veterans. (902632)

10Andy Sawford (Corby)
What assessment his Department has made of the availability of mental health services. (902633)

11Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole)
What reports he has received on the possible reclassification of ME/CFS by the World Health Organisation. (902634)

12Ian Lavery (Wansbeck)
What recent meetings he has had with representatives of the private healthcare sector. (902635)

13Chloe Smith (Norwich North)
What steps his Department is taking to improve the health of veterans. (902636)

14Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North)
What recent assessment he has made of the number of available mental health crisis beds for young people in England. (902637)

15Fiona Bruce (Congleton)
When he plans to publish his Department's new guidelines on sex-selective abortion. (902638)

16Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall)
What assessment he has made of trends in the number of attendances at type one Accident and Emergency departments since 2009-10. (902639)

17Guy Opperman (Hexham)
What steps his Department is taking to prevent excessive screening of pregnant women away from midwife-led maternity care. (902640)

18Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of cases of calciphylaxis. (902641)

19Sarah Champion (Rotherham)
What recent assessment he has made of the number of available mental health crisis beds for young people in England. (902642)

20Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East)
Whether patients are able to opt out of the General Practice Extraction Service by telephone or online. (902643)

21Karen Lumley (Redditch)
What steps he is taking to identify poorly-performing health services and improve patient care. (902644)

22Simon Wright (Norwich South)
What steps he is taking to support young adult carers. (902645)

23Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke)
What guidance he has given the Independent Reconfiguration Panel on the length of time that body should take to make a decision once a referral has been made. [R] (902646)

At 12.15pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

T1Julian Sturdy (York Outer)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (902658)

T2Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North) (902659)

T3Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble) (902660)

T4Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South) (902661)

T5Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down) (902662)

T6Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire) (902663)

T7Gavin Shuker (Luton South) (902664)

T8Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge) (902665)

T9Jason McCartney (Colne Valley) (902666)

T10Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (902667)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

12.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements (if any)

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. National Insurance (Renaming): Ten Minute Rule Motion

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Ben Gummer

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for National Insurance to be known as Earnings Tax; and for connected purposes.

Notes:

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

2. pensions AND SOCIAL SECURITY

Up to three hours (Order of 24 February)

Pensions

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

That the draft Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

Social Security

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 27 January, be approved.

Notes:

Proceedings on the Motions in the name of Secretary Iain Duncan Smith relating to pensions and social security will be brought to a conclusion not later than three hours after the commencement of proceedings on the first of those Motions; proceedings on those Motions may continue, though opposed, after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred Divisions) will not apply (Order of 24 February).

3. backbench business

Up to three hours (Order of 24 February)

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

John Healey

Guto Bebb

Mr Mark Williams

Jonathan Edwards

That this House has considered the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Notes:

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

Proceedings on the Backbench Business will be brought to a conclusion not later than three hours after their commencement and may continue, though opposed, after the moment of interruption (Order of 24 February).

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

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

EU funding decisions by UK Ministers: John Healey

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

Regional variation in educational attainment for disadvantaged pupils: Damian Hinds

11.00am

Post Office closure in Sutton: Paul Burstow

Notes:

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

2.30pm

Future of HM Land Registry: Mrs Siân C. James

4.00pm

Introduction of local television stations: Mrs Madeleine Moon

4.30pm

Policy on council tax banding: Mr Mark Spencer

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

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1.ECOFIN 18 February 2014

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

2.February 2014 Agriculture and Fisheries Council

Secretary of State for Justice

3.EU proposal amending the European Small Claims Regulation

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

4.High Court Judgment

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.

 Public Bill Committees

Consumer Rights Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 10

8.55am (public)

Deregulation Bill

Subject: To consider the Bill

Witnesses: Institution for Occupational Safety and Health (until no later than 9.30am); Trades Union Congress and Unite (until no later than 10.00am); British Chambers of Commerce (until no later than 10.30am); BAE Systems (until no later than 11.00am); R3 and Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (until no later than 11.25am)

The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House

8.55am (public)

Deregulation Bill

Subject: To consider the Bill

Witnesses: Janet Davis and Sarah Slade, Natural England’s Stakeholder Working Group on Unrecorded Rights of Way (until no later than 2.30pm); Local Government Authority (until no later than 3.00pm); Association of School and College Leaders and Andy Grace, Head Teacher, Boulevard Academy, Hull (until no later than 3.45pm); Equality and Human Rights Commission (until no later than 4.30pm); Federation of Small Businesses and Institute of Directors (until no later than 5.00pm); Forum of Private Business and Professor Julia Black, Professor of Law, London School of Economics (until no later than 5.45pm)

The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (public)

Consumer Rights Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 10

2.00pm (public)

 Delegated Legislation Committees

Ninth Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2014 and the draft Electoral Registration (Disclosure of Electoral Registers) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Room 12

8.55am (public)

Second Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014, the draft Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Registration of Shared Buildings) Regulations 2014 and the draft Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) Regulations 2014

Room 11

9.25am (public)

Third Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Consular Marriages and Marriages under Foreign Law Order 2014, the draft Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Use of Armed Forces’ Chapels) Regulations 2014 and the draft Overseas Marriage (Armed Forces) Order 2014

Room 12

2.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Public Administration

Subject: Future of the Census

Witnesses: Professor Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton, Professor Chris Skinner, Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, and John Pullinger, President, Royal Statistical Society; Keith Dugmore, Director, Demographics User Group and Demographic Decisions Ltd, Sarah Henry, Head of Intelligence and Performance, Manchester City Council, Juliet Whitworth, Research and Information Manager, Local Government Association, Professor Les Mayhew, Professor of Statistics, City University, and Piers Elias, Demography and Modelling Officer, Tees Valley Unlimited (at 10.30am)

Room 16

9.00am (private), 9.30am (public)

Justice

Subject: Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach?

Witnesses: Richard Monkhouse, Chair, Magistrates’ Association, Phillip Bowen, Director, Centre for Justice Innovation, Penelope Gibbs, Director, Transform Justice, and Adam Pemberton, Assistant Chief Executive, Victim Support

Room 8

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Business, Innovation and Skills

Room 6

9.30am (private)

Committee on Standards

Room 13

9.30am (private)

International Development

Subject: UK’s Development Work in the Middle East

Witnesses: Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, Nigel Pont, Regional Director, Syrian Response, Mercy Corps, and Jehangir Malik, UK Director, Islamic Relief; John Ging, Director, Coordination Response Division, Margot Ellis, Deputy Commissioner-General, and Daniel Levy, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme (at 11.00am)

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

9.30am (private), 10.00am (public)

Treasury

Subject: SME Lending

Witnesses: Professor Russel Griggs OBE, Independent External Reviewer of the Banking Taskforce Appeals Process; Priyen Patel, Senior Policy Advisor, Federation of Small Businesses, and Matthew Fell, Director of Competitive Markets, Confederation of British Industry (at 11.00am)

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

9.45am (private), 10.00am (public)

Culture, Media and Sport

Subject: Future of the BBC

Witnesses: RadioCentre, Bauer Radio and Global Radio; KM Group, Newspaper Society and Society of Editors (at 11.30am)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

10.00am (private), 10.30am (public)

Backbench Business

Subject: Proposals for backbench debates

Witnesses: Members of Parliament to apply for debates including on: Fixed-term parliaments; Female genital mutilation; Prevention and reporting of female genital mutilation in the UK and overseas; Future Army 2020

Room 18

12.55pm (private), 1.00pm (public)

Health

Subject: Care.data database

Witnesses: Phil Booth, Co-ordinator, medConfidential, Nick Pickles, Director, Big Brother Watch, Sharmila Nebhrajani, Chief Executive, Association of Medical Research Charities, Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director, British Heart Foundation, and Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Chair, British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee; Dr Daniel Poulter MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information, NHS England, and Max Jones, Director of Information and Data Services, Health and Social Care Information Centre (at 3.30pm)

Room 15

1.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Foreign Affairs

Subject: FCO consular services

Witnesses: Giles Paxman CMG LVO, former British Ambassador to Spain and Mexico, and Sir Michael Arthur KCMG, former British Ambassador to Germany and former High Commissioner to India (at 3.30pm)

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

1.45pm (private), 3.30pm (public)

Defence

Room 20

2.00pm (private)

Scottish Affairs

Subject: Zero-Hours Contracts

Witnesses: National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers and Unite the Union

Room 6

2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Home Affairs

Subject: (i) Counter-terrorism; (ii) Police and Crime Commissioners: progress to date

Witnesses: (i) Richard Barrett CMG OBE, Senior Director for Special Projects, Qatar International Academy for Security Studies and The Soufan Group; (ii) Ann Barnes, Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, and Chief Constable Alan Pughsley, Kent Police (at 3.30pm); Rt Hon Damian Green MP, Minister of State for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office and Ministry of Justice (at 4.00pm)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

2.30pm (private), 3.00pm (public)

Transport

Subject: Transport’s Winter Resilience: Rail Flooding

Witnesses: Chris Pomfret, Chairman, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader, and Tracey Lee, Chief Executive, Plymouth City Council, Phil Norrey, Chief Executive, Devon County Council, Gordon Oliver, Mayor, and Charles Uzzell, Director of Place, Torbay Council; Mark Carne, Chief Executive, and Patrick Hallgate, Route Managing Director, Western, Network Rail, and Mark Hopwood, Managing Director, First Great Western (at 4.15pm); Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State, Department for Transport (at 5.00pm)

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

3.30pm (public)

 Joint Committees

Draft Modern Slavery Bill

Subject: Draft Modern Slavery Bill

Witnesses: Christian Action Research and Education, Children’s Society and Refugee Children’s Consortium, Barnados and UNICEF; Scottish Refugee Council (at 11.00am)

Room 5

10.00am (private), 10.15am (public)

Draft Modern Slavery Bill

Subject: Draft Modern Slavery Bill

Witnesses: Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Sumner and Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, Human Trafficking Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, Detective Inspector Keith Roberts, Kent Police, Alan Hardwick, Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire, and Chief Inspector Mike Winters, Area Commander, Cambridgeshire Police; Nick Hunt, Director of Strategy and Policy, Crown Prosecution Service (at 3.00pm); Rt Hon the Lord Judge (at 3.30pm); Caroline Haughey, Criminal Barrister, Furnival Chambers (at 4.00pm)

Room 8

2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Monday 4 March to Monday 10 March

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 26 February. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 27 February.

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 3 March

Applications for General or Short Debates should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or the rise of House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 25 February. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 26 February.

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

Weeks beginning 10 March and 24 March

Communities and Local Government; Defence; Energy and Climate Change; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Health; Justice; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Transport; Work and Pensions.

Weeks beginning 17 March and 31 March

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Culture, Media and Sport; Deputy Prime Minister; Education; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Home Office; International Development; Treasury; Wales; Women and Equalities.