Business Today: Chamber for Friday 12 September 2014

9.30am Prayers

Followed by

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TARGET) BILL: SECOND READING

Until 2.30pm (Standing Order No. 11(2)(b))

Member in Charge: Michael Moore

Notes:

If proceedings on this Bill end before 2.30pm, the second Bill and, possibly, subsequent Bills may be debated in the time remaining. After 2.30pm, only those Bills which are unopposed may make further progress.

2. HOUSEHOLD SAFETY (CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS) BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Andrew Bingham

3. PAVEMENT PARKING BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Martin Horwood

4. ENERGY (BUILDINGS AND REDUCTION OF FUEL USE) BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Dr Alan Whitehead

5. HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION (ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATES AND MINIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS) BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Dr Alan Whitehead

6. CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT 2004 (AMENDMENT) BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Tim Loughton

7. SPECIALIST PRINTING EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS (OFFENCES) BILL: SECOND READING

Member in Charge: Mr David Amess

8. REGULATORY REFORM

No debate after 2.30pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))

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

That James Duddridge be discharged from the Regulatory Reform Committee and Mr Lee Scott be added.

9. TREASURY

No debate after 2.30pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))

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

That Mr Brooks Newmark be discharged from the Treasury Committee and Alok Sharma be added.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

Until 3.00pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))

Allocation of primary school places in the London Borough of Bromley: Jim Dowd

WRITTEN STATEMENTS

 Statements to be made today

Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

1.Informal ECOFIN 12–13 September 2014

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

2.Student Support

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

3.Housing Standards

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

4.Triennial Review of the British Film Institute

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

5.Sustainable Drainage Systems

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/.

COMMITTEE REPORTS PUBLISHED TODAY

 COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

2nd Report: Local government Chief Officers’ remuneration, HC 191

Time of publication: 00.01am

 ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT

4th Report: Sustainability in the Home Office, HC 222

Time of publication: 00.01am

 HEALTH

3rd Special Report: Managing the care of people with long-term conditions: Monitor’s Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2014–15, HC 660

Time of publication: 00.01am

 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

5th Report: Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Countries, HC 246

Time of publication: 00.01am

 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

13th Report: Local government funding: assurance to Parliament, HC 456

Time of publication: 00.01am

 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

2nd Special Report: The use of Diego Garcia by the United States: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2014–15, HC 646

Time of publication: 10.00am

 Transport

2nd Special Report: Local transport expenditure: Who decides?: Government response to the Committee’s Seventeenth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 632

Time of publication: 11.00am

3rd Special Report: Putting passengers first: disruption at Gatwick, Christmas Eve 2013: Airport Operators Association response to the Committee’s Fourteenth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 633

Time of publication: 11.00am

 DEFENCE

7th Special Report: Future Army 2020: Government Response to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2013–14, HC 387

Time of publication: 12.00 noon

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 21 October to Monday 27 October

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

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 20 October

Applications for General or Short Debates should be made in writing to the Table Office by 7pm or rise of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 14 October. The Ballot will take place on Wednesday 15 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.

Weeks beginning 27 October, 10 November and 24 November

Attorney General; Business, Innovation and Skills; Cabinet Office; Deputy Prime Minister; Energy and Climate Change; Home Office; International Development; Leader of the House; Transport; Treasury; Wales; Work and Pensions.

Weeks beginning 3 November and 17 November

Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Education; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Health; Justice; Northern Ireland; Scotland; Women and Equalities.

 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 has now passed.

 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).