Business Today: Chamber for Tuesday 9 September 2014

11.30am Prayers

Followed by

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

1Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent)
Whether he has any plans for further court closures. (905233)

2Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Youth Engagement Fund on youth offending. (905234)

3Philip Davies (Shipley)
What assessment he has made of the availability of books to prisoners. (905235)

4Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
What steps he plans to take to enforce the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime. (905236)

5Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East)
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of governance and security at HMP Northumberland. (905237)

6Graham Jones (Hyndburn)
What estimate he has made of the number of offenders given a non-custodial sentence in the last three years who had more than 100 previous convictions. (905238)

7Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
Whether the offence of treason is available for use by prosecuting authorities against UK citizens participating in jihad in the Middle East. (905239)

8Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
What steps he plans to take to enforce the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime. (905240)

9Stephen Mosley (City of Chester)
What steps his Department has taken to prevent insurance fraud. (905241)

10Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East)
What steps he is taking to reduce re-offending. (905242)

11Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion)
What progress his Department has made on the Transforming Rehabilitation programme. (905243)

12Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South)
What progress his Department has made on its courts rebuilding programme. (905244)

13Richard Graham (Gloucester)
What plans he has for the completion of the Court Estates Reform Programme. (905245)

14Fiona Bruce (Congleton)
What progress his Department has made on increasing the provision of restorative justice programmes for offenders. (905246)

15Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire)
What assessment he has made of the potential merits of joint working between probation trusts and police forces to reduce re-offending. (905247)

16Andrew Griffiths (Burton)
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of open prisons. (905248)

17Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
What steps he is taking to reduce the level of violence in prisons. (905249)

18Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Probation Service. (905250)

19Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West)
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of recent changes to legal aid. (905251)

20Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough)
What forecasts the Government has made of future trends in the prison population. (905252)

21Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes)
What steps his Department is taking to ensure that there will be sufficient prison places available for those offenders given custodial sentences over the next 10 years. (905253)

22Julie Hilling (Bolton West)
What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of his plans for youth custody on (a) young children and (b) girls. (905254)

23Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree)
What the Government's strategy is on the future of the Probation Service. (905255)

At 12.15pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

T1Mr David Hanson (Delyn)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (905258)

T2Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) (905259)

T3Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (905260)

T4Philip Davies (Shipley) (905261)

T5John Mann (Bassetlaw) (905262)

T6Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes) (905263)

T7Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (905264)

T8Paul Flynn (Newport West) (905265)

T9Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) (905266)

T10Lorely Burt (Solihull) (905267)

 URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

12.30pm

Urgent Questions (if any)

Ministerial Statements, including on Quarterly Statement on Afghanistan and on Government Implementation of the Hallett Report

 Presentation of Bills

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

Recall of Elected Representatives

Zac Goldsmith

Bill to make provision about the recall of Members of the House of Commons; to allow for the extension of such provision to other offices; to provide that the recall of elected representatives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be a devolved matter; and for connected purposes.

Affordable Housing Contributions (Ten Unit Threshold)

Tim Farron

Bill to give local planning authorities the power to determine the requirements for affordable housing contributions from sites of fewer than 10 units as part of planning obligation agreements under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; and for connected purposes.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. SERVICE CHARGES, GRATUITIES AND COVER CHARGES (HOSPITALITY, LEISURE AND SERVICE SECTORS) (STATUTORY CODE): TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Andrew Percy

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a code relating to service charges, gratuities and cover charges in the hospitality, leisure and service sectors; and for connected purposes.

Notes:

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

2. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE

Until any hour (If the 7.00pm Business of the House and Deferred Divsions Motion is agreed to)

Mr William Hague

That at today’s sitting:

(1) the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Secretary Patrick McLouglin relating to the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill not later than two hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Motion for this Order; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; the Questions may be put after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply; and

(2) notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business), the Private Business set down by the Chairman of Ways and Means may be entered upon at any hour, and may then be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, after which the Speaker shall interrupt the business; the business may be entered upon after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply.

 MOTION TO BE TAKEN AT 7.00PM

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE AND DEFERRED DIVISIONS

No debate (Standing Orders No. 15 and No. 41A(3))

The Prime Minister

That, at this day’s sitting, the Motion in the name of Mr William Hague relating to the Business of the House may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) will not apply.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

3. HIGH SPEED RAIL (LONDON - WEST MIDLANDS) BILL: CARRY-OVER (NO. 2)

Up to two hours after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House Motion, if it is agreed to.

Secretary Patrick McLoughlin

That the Order of 29 April 2014 (High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill (Carry-over)) be varied as follows:

After paragraph 10 of the Order insert–

“10A. The Order of the House of 26 June 2013 relating to electronic deposit of documents shall apply in respect of a Bill presented as mentioned in paragraph 2 or 4 as in respect of the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill read for the first time in the current Session.”

4. HIGH SPEED RAIL (LONDON - WEST MIDLANDS) BILL: INSTRUCTION (NO. 2)

Up to two hours after commencement of proceedings on the Business of the House Motion, if it is agreed to.

Secretary Patrick McLoughlin

That it be a further Instruction to the Select Committee to which the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill is committed–

(1) that the Select Committee have power to consider–

(a) amendments to accommodate the requirements of landowners and occupiers in:

(i) the parishes of the Little Missenden, Great Missenden, Wendover, Stoke Mandeville, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, Quainton, Preston Bissett and Turweston in the County of Buckinghamshire,

(ii) the parish of Finmere in the County of Oxfordshire,

(iii) the parish of Chipping Warden and Edgcote in the County of Northamptonshire,

(iv) the parish of Little Packington in the County of Warwickshire,

(v) the parish of Berkswell in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, and

(vi) the City of Birmingham;

(b) amendments to accommodate changes to the design of the works authorised by the Bill in:

(i) the parishes of Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, Fleet Marston, Steeple Claydon and Twyford in the County of Buckinghamshire,

(ii) the parish of Mixbury in the County of Oxfordshire,

(iii) the parishes of Culworth and Whitfield in the County of Northamptonshire,

(iv) the parishes of Radbourne, Southam, Stoneleigh and Curdworth in the County of Warwickshire, and

(v) the City of Birmingham;

(c) amendments to accommodate the requirements of utility undertakers in:

(i) the parishes of Denham, Wendover, Ellesborough, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, Quainton and Grendon Underwood and the town of Aylesbury in the County of Buckinghamshire,

(ii) the parishes of Offchurch, Burton Green, Little Packington, Coleshill, Curdworth, Wishaw and Moxhull and Middleton in the County of Warwickshire,

(iii) the parishes of Drayton Bassett, Hints with Canwell, Weeford, Swinfen and Packington, Fradley and Streethay, Longdon, Kings Bromley and Lichfield in the County of Staffordshire, and

(iv) the parish of Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull,

and amendments for connected purposes;

(2) that any petition against amendments to the Bill which the Select Committee is empowered to make shall be referred to the Select Committee if–

(a) the petition is presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the first newspaper notice of the amendments was published, and

(b) the petition is one in which the petitioners pray to be heard by themselves or through counsel or agents.

That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.

Relevant documents:

Ninth Report from the Transport Committee, Session 2013-14, High speed rail: on track?, HC 851, and the Government response, HC 1085

Tenth Report from the Transport Committee, Session 2010-12, High Speed Rail, HC 1185, and the Government response, HC 1754

5. REGULATORY REFORM

Up to 90 minutes (Standing Order No. 18(1))

Secretary Jeremy Hunt

That the draft Legislative Reform (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 13 March 2014, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved.

Notes:

The Regulatory Reform Committee has reported on the draft Order in its Fifth Report, Session 2013-14, HC 1224.

6. OPPOSED PRIVATE BUSINESS

Up to three hours (If the Business of the House Motion is agreed to)

Transport for London Bill [Lords]: Second Reading

Buckinghamshire County Council (Filming on Highways) Bill [Lords]: Second Reading

7. 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) (No. 2) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 5 June, be approved.

Notes:

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

8. LEGAL SERVICES

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

Secretary Chris Grayling

That the draft Legal Services Act 2007 (Approved Regulator) (No. 2) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 23 June, be approved.

Notes:

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

9. LICENCES AND LICENSING

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

Secretary Theresa May

That the draft Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) (Amendment) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 23 June, be approved.

Notes:

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

10. ROAD TRAFFIC

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

Secretary Patrick McLoughlin

That the draft Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 19 June, be approved.

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))

Relationship between North Wales Police and a local anonymous blog site: Guto Bebb

BUSINESS TODAY: WESTMINSTER HALL

 ORDER OF BUSINESS

The sitting will take place in Committee Room 10. 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

Future of nursery schools: Pat Glass

11.00am

Role of the Health and Safety Executive in asbestos removal: Steve Rotheram

Notes:

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

2.30pm

Future of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem: Mr David Burrowes

4.00pm

Rollout of superfast broadband in urban areas: Mark Field

4.30pm

International finance: remittance giving and money transfer organisations: Rushanara Ali

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 Defence

1.Gifting of Equipment

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

2.International Climate Change negotiations publication

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

3.Bovine TB

Secretary of State for Health

4.Local authority public health funding 2015–16

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

Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 9

8.55am (public)

Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 9

2.00pm (public)

Modern Slavery Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 12

9.25am (public)

Modern Slavery Bill

Further to consider the Bill

Room 12

2.00pm (public)

 Delegated Legislation Committees

Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2014

Room 11

8.55am (public)

Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Local Audit (Auditor Panel Independence) Regulations 2014

Room 14

2.30pm (public)

Seventh Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014

Room 6

2.30pm (public)

 Select Committees

Business, Innovation and Skills

Subject: Business-University Collaboration

Witnesses: Dr Malcolm Skingle, Director, Academic Liaison, GlaxoSmithKline, Professor Paul Beasley, Head of R&D, Siemens, and Henner Wapenhans, Head of Technology Strategy, Rolls-Royce.

Room 16

9.00am (private), 9.30am (public)

Energy and Climate Change

Subject: Network costs

Witnesses: Phil Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Power Grid, Tony Glover, Director of Policy, Energy Networks Association, Jeremy Nicholson, Director, Energy Intensive Users Group, Graham Edwards, Chief Executive Officer, Wales and West Utilities, John Pettigrew, Executive Director, National Grid, and Frank Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer, SP Energy Networks

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public), 11.30am (private)

Justice

Subject: Prisons: planning and policies

Witnesses: Angela Levin, former Chair, Wormwood Scrubs Independent Monitoring Board, Paula Harriott, Head of Programmes, User Voice, Deborah Russo, Joint Managing Solicitor, Prisoners’ Advice Service, and Jonathan Robinson

Room 8

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill

Subject: High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill

Witnesses: Cemex UK Operations Ltd

Room 5

9.20am (private), 9.30am (public)

Committee on Standards

Room 13

9.30am (private)

Treasury

Subject: Financial Conduct Authority Hearings 2014-15

Witnesses: John Griffith-Jones, Chairman, and Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive, Financial Conduct Authority

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

9.45am (private), 10.00am (public)

Culture, Media and Sport

Subject: Pre-Appointment Hearing for Chair of the BBC Trust

Witnesses: Rona Fairhead, the Government's preferred candidate

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

10.00am (private), 10.30am (public)

Political and Constitutional Reform

Subject: (i) Voter engagement in the UK; (ii) The work of the Deputy Prime Minister 2014

Witnesses: (i) Sam Gyimah MP, Minister for the Constitution, Cabinet Office; (ii) Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, and Sam Gyimah MP, Minister for the Constitution, Cabinet Office (at 12.30pm)

Room 15

11.15am (private), 11.30am (public)

Backbench Business

Subject: Proposals for backbench debates

Witnesses: Members of Parliament to apply for the following debates, including on: Providing young people in schools and colleges with inspiring role models; Future of the two state solution in Israel and Palestine

Room 16

12.55pm (private), 1.00pm (public)

Health

Room 13

2.00pm (private)

High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill

Subject: High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill

Witnesses: National Express Group Plc

Room 5

2.00pm (public)

Foreign Affairs

Subject: Developments in UK foreign policy

Witnesses: Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Edward Oakden CMG, Director, Middle East, Middle East and North Africa Directorate, and Sir Simon Gass CVO, KCMG, Director General for Political Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

2.15pm (private), 3.30pm (public)

Home Affairs

Subject: Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming: follow-up

Witnesses: Chief Constable David Crompton QPM, and former Chief Constable Meredydd John Hughes CBE QPM, South Yorkshire Police; Martin Kimber, Chief Executive, and Joyce Thacker OBE, Strategic Director for Children, Young People and Families, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (at 3.30pm); Shaun Wright, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner (at 4.00pm); Peter Wanless, Chief Executive, NSPCC, and Richard Whittam QC (at 4.30pm)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

2.15pm (private), 3.00pm (public)

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED TODAY

 Environmental Audit

5th Special Report: Well-being: Government response to the Committee’s Fifteenth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 639

Time of publication: 10.00am

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Monday 13 October to Monday 20 October

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Wednesday 10 September. The Ballot will take place on Thursday 11 September.

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 13 October

Applications should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 9 September. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 10 September.

Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Communities and Local Government; Defence; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Health; Justice; Leader of the House; Northern Ireland; Transport; Wales.

Week beginning 20 October

Attorney General; Culture, Media and Sport; Deputy Prime Minister; Education; Energy and Climate Change; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Home Office; International Development; Scotland; Treasury; Women and Equalities; Work and Pensions.

 RELOCATION OF WESTMINSTER HALL SITTINGS DURING SEPTEMBER

For the two weeks of the September sitting all sittings of the House in Westminster Hall will take place in Committee Room 10 on the Main Committee Corridor. Sittings will return to the Grand Committee Room from October (Business of the House statement, 10 July).

tabling questions in the CONFERENCE Adjournment 2014

Members wishing to table questions in person may do so in the usual way through the Table Office until 3.00pm or the rising of the House, whichever is earlier, on Friday 12 September. Thereafter, Members may table questions for oral and written answer electronically or by post. Questions for written answer received after 12 September and before 4.30pm on Friday 10 October will be treated as if tabled on 10 October.

Questions for oral answer

Under Standing Order No. 22(6), the Speaker has made the following arrangements for tabling Questions for oral answer when the House returns:

The results of the shuffles on 11 September will be published on 12 September. They will be available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmfutoral/futoral.pdf

For further details of last tabling days for other departments and answering bodies, see the Order of Questions rota available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-table-office/order-of-oral-questions1.pdf

Notes:

* The latest time for tabling is 12.30pm on each of these days

** First sitting day after adjournment

Questions for written answer

The latest time for tabling a Question for written answer on a named day before the Conference Adjournment is 7.30pm or the rise of the House, whichever is earlier, on Tuesday 9 September (for answer on Friday 12 September).

 TABLING AMENDMENTS TO PUBLIC BILLS IN THE CONFERENCE ADJOURNMENT 2014

Members wishing to table amendments to public bills in person or via introduced staff may do so in the usual way in the Public Bill Office until the rise of the House on Friday 12 September. Such amendments will appear in the provisional papers (the ‘blues’) issued on Monday 15 September.

Thereafter, Members may submit amendments in person, via introduced staff or, if signed, by post. Those received by the Public Bill Office before 4.30pm on Thursday 9 October will be examined on that day and sent for printing to appear in the ‘blues’ issued on Friday 10 October.

Such amendments will have satisfied the notice period requirement for selection for debate in public bill committees sitting on or after Tuesday 14 October. Amendments tabled by the rise of the House on Monday 13 October will be selectable for PBC sittings on or after Thursday 16 October.

 High Speed Rail (London–West Midlands) Bill: additional provisions & Further petitioning period

Members may deposit petitions against HS2’s additional provisions, on behalf of any petitioner, in the Private Bill Office (Robinson Room, PCH) between Friday 19 September and Thursday 16 October, inclusive (10am till 5pm) and on Friday 17 October (10am till 1pm).