Business Today: Chamber for Monday 16 June 2014

2.30pm Prayers

Followed by

 NoticeS of MotionS for Unopposed ReturnS

Sessional Returns

No debate or decision

The Chairman of Ways and Means

Sessional Returns: Returns for Session 2013–14 of information and statistics relating to:

(1)Business of the House

(2)Closure of Debate, Proposal of Question and Allocation of Time (including Programme Motions)

(3)Sittings of the House

(4)Private Bills and Private Business

(5)Public Bills

(6)Delegated Legislation and Legislative Reform Orders

(7) European Legislation, etc

(8)Grand Committees

(9)Panel of Chairs

(10)Select Committees.

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

1Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
What steps his Department is taking to support schools in the provision of career guidance. (904198)

2Mr Robin Walker (Worcester)
When he plans to publish the results of the recent consultation on fairer funding for schools; and if he will make a statement. (904199)

3Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
What assessment he has made of the recommendations of Sir Martin Narey's report Making the Education of Social Workers Consistently Effective, published in January 2014, on the training of children's social workers. (904200)

4Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East)
What recent assessment he has made of demand for free schools. (904201)

5Jessica Lee (Erewash)
What recent steps his Department has taken to increase the number of children in care who are adopted. (904202)

6Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central)
What steps his Department is taking to strengthen relationships between local employers, schools and further education colleges. (904203)

7David Mowat (Warrington South)
What steps he is taking to adopt a revised funding formula for schools. (904204)

8Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside)
What steps his Department is taking to strengthen relationships between local employers, schools and further education colleges. (904205)

9Mel Stride (Central Devon)
What progress his Department has made on increasing the number and quality of apprenticeships for 16 to 18 year olds. (904206)

10Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness)
What steps he is taking to obtain data from HM Revenue and Customs to improve the development of destination measures for school-leavers. (904207)

11Graeme Morrice (Livingston)
What steps he is taking to ensure that admissions processes in free schools and academies are fair. (904208)

12Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
What provision has been made to fund the furnishing of new school buildings built under the Priority School Building Programme. (904209)

13Jason McCartney (Colne Valley)
What progress his Department has made on increasing the number and quality of apprenticeships for 16 to 18 year olds. (904210)

14Alex Cunningham (Stockton North)
How many disadvantaged two year olds received the 15-hour free entitlement to childcare in the latest period for which figures are available. (904211)

15Duncan Hames (Chippenham)
What assessment he has made of the work in primary schools of the Numbers Count programme. (904212)

16Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall)
What steps he has taken to reduce absenteeism in schools. (904213)

17Steve Brine (Winchester)
What steps his Department has taken to increase the number of primary school places in a) Winchester constituency and b) England. (904214)

18Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
What change there has been in educational attainment in a) Kettering constituency, b) Northamptonshire and c) England since May 2010. (904215)

19Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East)
How many disadvantaged two year olds received the 15-hour free entitlement to childcare in the latest period for which figures are available. (904216)

20Richard Fuller (Bedford)
What recent representations he has received on funding for the transition to a two-tier school system in Bedford Borough. (904217)

21Alok Sharma (Reading West)
What recent assessment he has made of demand for free schools. (904218)

22Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry)
What steps his Department is taking to support children with special educational needs. (904219)

23Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough)
What recent representations he has received on the number of children with autism informally excluded from school. (904221)

24Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
What progress his Department has made on increasing the number and quality of apprenticeships for 16 to 18 year olds. (904222)

At 3.15pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

T1Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (904223)

T2Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (904224)

T3Duncan Hames (Chippenham) (904225)

T4Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (904227)

T5Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble) (904228)

T6Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (904229)

T7Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North) (904230)

T8Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) (904231)

T9Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (904232)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

3.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements, including on Ending sexual violence in conflict, and Iraq

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. Consumer Rights Bill: Report Stage (DAY 2) and Third Reading

Up to three hours (Order of 13 May, in the last session of Parliament)

As amended in the Public Bill Committee, to be considered.

Notes:

Proceedings will be taken in accordance with the Consumer Rights Bill Programme (No. 2) Motion agreed to by the House on 13 May, in the last session of Parliament: New Clauses and new Schedules relating to Parts 2 or 3; amendments to Parts 2 or 3; remaining new Clauses and new Schedules; and remaining proceedings on Consideration will be brought to a conclusion two hours after their commencement. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion three hours after the commencement of proceedings on Consideration.

For amendments, see separate paper (also available on the documents webpage for the Bill).

The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed a Legislative Consent Resolution in respect of this Bill. Copies of the Resolution are available in the Vote Office.

2. EDUCATION

Up to 90 minutes (Standing Order No. 16(1))

Secretary Michael Gove

That the draft Special Education Needs (Personal Budgets) Regulations 2014, which were laid before this House on 9 April, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved.

 MOTION TO BE TAKEN AT 10.00PM

DEFERRED DIVISIONS

No debate (Standing Order No. 41A(3))

The Prime Minister

That, at this day’s sitting, Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply to the Motion in the name of Secretary Michael Gove relating to Education.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

3. DELEGATED LEGISLATION (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDUSTRY)

No debate after 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))

Mr Andrew Lansley

That the Motion in the name of Secretary Vince Cable relating to Financial Assistance to Industry shall be treated as if it related to an instrument subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees) in respect of which notice has been given that the instrument be approved.

4. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY (JOINT COMMITTEE)

No debate after 10.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, on behalf of the Committee of Selection

That Mr James Arbuthnot be discharged from the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and Rory Stewart be added.

 PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PETITIONS

No debate or decision (Standing Order No. 153)

Removal of trees from Thirsk Market Place: Miss Anne McIntosh

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

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

Work capability assessments – mandatory reconsideration delays: Sheila Gilmore

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

1.Measures to improve confidence in the insolvency regime

2.Regional Growth Fund update

3.Student support in England

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

4.Brownfield land

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

5.United Kingdom National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, 2014–17

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

6.Publication of Fuller Working Lives–A Framework for Action

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 European Union Documents No. 15808/13, a Commission Report: Alert Mechanism Report 2014, and other documents referred on 11 and 18 December 2013, and 9 April and 11 June 2014

Room 10

4.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Public Administration

Subject: Civil Service impartiality and referendums

Witnesses: John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth; Professor Susan Deacon, University of Edinburgh, David Clegg, Daily Record, Simon Johnson, The Telegraph (Scotland), and Scott MacNab, The Scotsman (at 10.30am)

Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Public Accounts

Subject: Army 2020

Witnesses: Jon Thompson, Permanent Secretary, and General Sir Peter Wall GCB CBE, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of Defence, Dawn Marriott Sims, Chief Operating Officer, Capita, and Simon Fovargue, Vice President and General Manager, HP Public Sector Defence, ATLAS Consortium

Room 15

3.00pm (private), 3.15pm (public)

Communities and Local Government

Subject: Operation of the National Planning Policy Framework

Witnesses: Kate Barker CBE, Sir Terry Farrell CBE, and Dr Hugh Ellis, Head of Policy, Town and Country Planning Association; Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Director-General, National Trust, Liz Peace CBE, Chief Executive, British Property Federation, and Andrew Whitaker, Planning Director, Home Builders Federation (at 5.15pm)

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

4.00pm (private), 4.15pm (public)

Administration

Room 16

4.30pm (private)

 Joint Committees

National Security Strategy

Room 4

4.00pm (private)

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED

 Home Affairs

1st Report: Tobacco smuggling, HC 200

Date and time of publication: Saturday 14 June 00.01am

 business, Innovation and Skills

1st Special Report: The Retail Sector: Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 189

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 00.01am

 Welsh Affairs

1st Report: Energy Generation in Wales: Shale Gas, HC 284

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 00.01am

 Education

1st Special Report: Residential Children’s Homes: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 305

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 11.00am

 Political and Constitutional Reform

1st Special Report: The impact of Queen’s and Prince’s Consent on the legislative process: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2013–14, HC 224

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 11.00am

 Regulatory Reform

1st Report: Draft Legislative Reform (Patents) Order 2014, HC 331

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 11.00am

 Transport

1st Special Report: Forging ahead: UK shipping strategy: Government Response to the Committee’s Thirteenth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 254

Date and time of publication: Monday 16 June 11.00am

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 DEADLINES FOR AMENDMENTS TO BILLS AT REPORT STAGE

In accordance with the House’s decision of 8 May 2014, during the 2014-15 Session the deadline for the tabling of amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to programmed bills at Report Stage will be three days prior to the day on which the Report Stage takes place (i.e. the previous Wednesday for a Monday, the previous Thursday for a Tuesday, and previous Friday for a Wednesday). This arrangement will be in place for the duration of this Session as a trial period and applies to all programmed bills.

The deadlines for the tabling of amendments to forthcoming Report Stages will therefore be as follows:

Consumer Rights Bill

(Report Stage on Monday 16 June): the rising of the House on Wednesday 11 June.

Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

(Report Stage on Tuesday 17 June): the rising of the House on Thursday 12 June.

Deregulation Bill

(Report Stage on Monday 23 June): the rising of the House on Wednesday 18 June.

Wales Bill

(Report Stage on Tuesday 24 June): the rising of the House on Thursday 19 June.

The existing arrangements for black and white “starred” amendments will remain in place.

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 24 June to Monday 30 June

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 18 June. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 19 June.

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 23 June

Applications for General or Short Debates should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7.00pm or the rise of House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 17 June. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 18 June.

Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Education; Energy and Climate Change; Defence; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; International Development; Justice; Scotland; Women and Equalities.

Week beginning 30 June

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Deputy Prime Minister; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Health; Home Office; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Transport; Treasury; Wales; Work and Pensions.

 ELECTION OF THE CHAIR OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE

Nominations

Nominations must be received in writing in the Lower Table Office by 5pm on Tuesday 17 June 2014 (the day before the ballot).

In accordance with the House’s decision of 26 May 2010 only members of the Conservative Party may be candidates in this election.

Each nomination shall consist of a brief signed statement made by the candidate declaring their willingness to stand for election, accompanied by the signatures of 15 Members elected to the House as members of the same party as the candidate. Statements may (optionally) be accompanied by signatures of up to five Members elected to the House as members of any party other than that to which the candidate belongs, or member of no party.

No Member may sign more than one such statement; if any Member does so, their signature shall no longer be valid.

Ballot

If there is more than one candidate, the ballot will take place between 10.00am and 1.00pm on Wednesday 18 June 2014 in a Committee Room.

As soon as practicable after the votes have been counted the Speaker will announce to the House the results of the ballot.

For further details, please see the Briefing Note available in the Vote Office and on the internet: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/commons/office-chief-executive/briefing-notes1/

 PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS

Result of the Private Members’ Bill Ballot 2014-15

 1. Andrew George 2. Michael Moore 3. Robert Neill

 4. Mr Richard Bacon 5. Jeremy Lefroy 6. Clive Efford

 7. Sarah Teather 8. Julian Sturdy 9. Mr Mark Spencer

10. Jonathan Evans11. Ian Mearns12. Dan Jarvis

13. Jake Berry14. Andrew Bingham15. Yvonne Fovargue

16. John Hemming17. Mr Christopher Chope18. Mark Lazarowicz

19. Mr David Davis20. Martin Horwood

Presentation of Bills

Ballot Bills will be presented on Wednesday 2 July (SO No. 14(11)).

Following the agreement by the House on 2 December 2013 of dates of periodic adjournments, the earliest date to give notice of presentation of non-ballot Bills under Standing Order No. 57 (Presentation and first reading) will be Thursday 3 July (SO No. 14(12)(b)) and the earliest day on which such bills may be presented will be Monday 7 July.

Ten Minute Rule Motions

Thursday 3 July 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 15, Wednesday 16 and Tuesday 22 July and Tuesday 2 September.

 MEMBERS NOMINATED FOR ELECTION AS HEALTH COMMITTEE CHAIR

Only the first fifteen names of a candidate’s own party validly submitted in support of a candidature are printed.

Up to and including Wednesday 11 June 2014