Business Today: Chamber for Wednesday 26 November 2014

11.30am Prayers

Followed by

 Notice of Motion for Unopposed Return

No debate or decision

Secretary Sajid Javid

That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, That she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House a Return of the Report from Sir Donnell Deeny, Chairman of the Spoliation Advisory Panel, dated 26 November 2014, in respect of a tapestry fragment in the possession of Glasgow City Council as part of The Burrell Collection.

 QUESTIONS

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

1Guy Opperman (Hexham)
If he will give guidance to the Smith Commission on ensuring that its proposals do not hamper cross-border trade with the North of England. (906203)

2Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling)
What recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on shipbuilding on the Clyde. (906204)

3Jim McGovern (Dundee West)
What steps he is taking to encourage firms in Scotland to pay the living wage. (906205)

4John Stevenson (Carlisle)
When he expects the Smith Commission to publish its report; and what steps are planned to implement its findings. (906206)

5Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of superfast broadband services in Scotland. (906207)

6Mark Menzies (Fylde)
When he expects the Smith Commission to publish its report; and what steps are planned to implement its findings. (906208)

7Ann McKechin (Glasgow North)
What progress has been made on the implementation of a Scottish rate of income tax; and if he will make a statement. (906209)

8Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
What recent discussions he has has with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the benefits to Scotland of migrant workers. (906210)

9Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)
What steps he is taking to encourage firms in Scotland to pay the living wage. (906211)

10Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
What recent discussions he has had on the potential effect on England of further devolution in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. (906212)

11Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
If he will take steps to encourage cross-border co-operation in health services. (906213)

12Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith)
If he will bring forward proposals for secondary legislation to devolve further powers on road traffic matters to the Scottish Government. (906214)

13Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on devolution of powers of consent for fracking. (906215)

14Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth)
What estimate he has made of likely changes in the number of workless households in Scotland in the next five years. (906216)

15Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight)
What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the effect on island communities of Road Equivalent Tariffs on ferry services. (906217)

At 12.00pm

Oral Questions to the Prime Minister

Q1Albert Owen (Ynys Môn)
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 26 November. (906253)

Q2Ian Murray (Edinburgh South) (906254)

Q3Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (906255)

Q4Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham) (906256)

Q5Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (906257)

Q6Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (906258)

Q7Norman Baker (Lewes) (906259)

Q8Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (906260)

Q9Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (906261)

Q10Andrew Rosindell (Romford) (906262)

Q11Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East) (906263)

Q12Mark Menzies (Fylde) (906264)

Q13Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland) (906266)

Q14Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (906267)

 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)

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill

Secretary Theresa May

Bill to make provision in relation to terrorism; to make provision about retention of communications data, about information, authority to carry and security in relation to air, sea and rail transport and about reviews by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission against refusals to issue certificates of naturalisation; and for connected purposes.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

1. DOGS (REGISTRATION): TEN MINUTE RULE MOTION

Up to 20 minutes (Standing Order No. 23)

Julie Hilling

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the annual registration of dogs; to require that income from registration be used to fund the enforcement of conditions and penalties imposed on those owning and controlling dogs; 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 (10TH ALLOTTED DAY)

Until 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))

Performance of the economy

Edward Miliband

Ed Balls

Chris Leslie

Mr Chuka Umunna

Rachel Reeves

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House believes the Government has failed to deliver rising living standards and a recovery that works for the many, with working people on average £1,600 a year worse off since 2010; notes that the Office for Budget Responsibility has said that stagnant wages and too many low-paid jobs are leading to lower tax revenues and more borrowing, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pledge to balance the books by 2015 set to be broken; calls on the Government to bring forward a plan in the Autumn Statement to deliver a recovery for the many, not just a few at the top, with proposals for a minimum wage rising as a proportion of average earnings, an expansion of free childcare for working parents, a cut in business rates for small firms, an independent infrastructure commission, and the building of 200,000 new homes a year; believes that a tough and fair plan to deliver a current budget surplus and falling national debt as soon as possible in the next Parliament would include reversing the Government’s £3 billion a year tax cut for the top one per cent of earners and introducing tougher measures to tackle tax avoidance; and further believes that the Autumn Statement should use £1 billion of fines from the recent foreign exchange manipulation scandal for an immediate boost to health and care, and announce a £2.5 billion a year fund to help save and transform the NHS, including funding for an extra 20,000 nurses and 8,000 GPs.

Effect of government policies on Wales

Edward Miliband

Owen Smith

Ed Balls

Rachel Reeves

Caroline Flint

Ms Rosie Winterton

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the Government’s policies on Wales; notes the Government’s real-terms reduction of the Welsh budget by £1.5 billion; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the bedroom tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the bedroom tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

Amendment (a)

Jonathan Edwards

Elfyn Llwyd

Hywel Williams

Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘notes the failure of successive governments to address the independently-verified shortfall in the Welsh budget which amounts to billions of pounds over the last decade; further notes that all the Westminster parties are committed to the same austerity should they win the upcoming General Election; notes that successive governments have cut spending on social protection including the last Labour Government whose changes to work capability assessments are now having some of the worst effects; notes the failure of Labour to vote against the Welfare Reform Act 2012 at Second Reading which brought in many of the most pernicious current cuts to social security; calls for a raising of the minimum wage to the level of the living wage instead of a commitment to a below historic rate of increase £8 by the end of the next parliament; further calls for funding parity with Scotland meaning a pro-rata increase of £1.2 billion per year to the Welsh budget now that the unionist parties have vowed that the Barnett Formula will remain in place; and calls for the full devolution of energy policy and the setting up of a publicly-owned not-for-distributable-profit energy generation company in Wales in order to deliver lower prices to consumers’.

Notes:

The selection of the matters to be debated has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No. 14(2)).

 MOTION TO BE TAKEN AT 7.00PM

DEFERRED DIVISIONS

No debate (Standing Order No. 41(A)(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 Theresa May relating to the Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism.

 BUSINESS OF THE DAY

3. PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM

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

Secretary Theresa May

That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 24 November, be approved.

Notes:

The Instrument has not yet been considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.

4. LEGAL SERVICES

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

Secretary Chris Grayling

That the draft Legal Services Act 2007 (the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys) (Modification of Functions) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 20 October, be approved.

Notes:

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

5. COMPANIES

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

Secretary Vince Cable

That the draft Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014, which were laid before this House on 23 October, be approved.

Notes:

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

6. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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

Secretary Alistair Carmichael

That the draft Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 27 October, be approved.

Notes:

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

7. EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY

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

Matthew Hancock

That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 10409/14 and Addenda 1 to 5, a Commission Communication on the European Energy Security Strategy; welcomes the Government’s support for the Commission’s energy security strategy, in particular the recognition in the Communication that energy security is central to the EU’s prosperity; and supports the Government’s efforts to work to ensure that in the implementation of the strategy, the existing balance of competence between Member States and the Commission is not altered.

8. COUNTER-TERRORISM AND SECURITY BILL (AMENDMENTS, ETC.)

No debate after 7.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(6))

Mr William Hague

That, in respect of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, notices of Amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.

 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE

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

Mr Stephen Jones and Unicom and mis-selling in the telecoms industry: 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

Re-employment of redundant Remploy workers: Ian Lucas

11.00am

Government’s approach to international development and disability: Liz McInnes

Notes:

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

2.30pm

Illegal encampments in the East of England: Robert Halfon

4.00pm

Roads in Sittingbourne and Sheppey: Gordon Henderson

4.30pm

The 2011 Gleision Mine accident: Mr Peter Hain

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: 7 November 2014

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

2.Telecommunications Council

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

3.Foreign Affairs Council, and General Affairs Council: 17-19 November 2014

Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

4.Analysis of the Confirmation Live Run in Scotland

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

Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Bill

To consider the Bill

Room 9

3.00pm (public)

 Delegated Legislation Committees

Eighth Delegated Legislation Committee

To consider the draft Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Target) Regulations 2014

Room 9

8.55am (public)

 Select Committees

Business, Innovation and Skills

Subject: Competition in the UK postal sector and the universal service obligation

Witnesses: Moya Greene, Chief Executive, Royal Mail, Nick Wells, Chief Executive, Whistl, Guy Buswell, Chief Executive, UK Mail, and Daniel Vines, Director of Sales and Customer Services, TNT UK; Roy Perticucci, Vice President, EU Operations, Amazon (at 10.30am); Billy Hayes, General Secretary, and Dave Ward, Deputy General Secretary Postal, Communication Workers Union, and John Park, Assistant General Secretary, and Les Baylis, Special Project Officer, Logistics and Distribution, Community (at 11.00am)

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

9.00am (private), 9.30am (public)

Science and Technology

Subject: Current and future uses of biometric data and technologies

Witnesses: Professor Juliet Lodge, representing Biometrics Institute, Professor Louise Amoore, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, and Professor Sue Black, Director, Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee; Sir John Adye, Chairman, Identity Assurance Systems, Ben Fairhead, Biometric Systems Engineer, 3M, and Erik Bowman, Chief Engineer, Automated Biometric Identification System Programme, Northrop Grumman (at 09.55am); Andrew Tyrer, Head of Enabling Technology, Innovate UK, Emma Carr, Director, Big Brother Watch, and Dr Peter Waggett, Chairman, British Standards Institution Technical Committee IST/44 (at 10.35am)

Room 15

9.00am (private), 9.15am (public)

Education

Subject: Apprenticeships and traineeships for 16 to 19 year olds

Witnesses: Lorna Fitzjohn, National Director for Further Education and Skills, Ofsted, Katerina Rudiger, Head of Skills and Policy Campaigns, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Conor Ryan, Director of Research and Communications, Sutton Trust, and James Whelan, Head of Mathematics, Harris Academy Morden; Deborah Lee, Chief Learning Officer, BT Group, Charlotte Bosworth, Director of Skills and Employment, OCR, Stephen Overell, Principal, Employment and Skills, New Economy Manchester, and Darren Northcott, National Official, Education, NASUWT (at 10.30am)

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

Energy and Climate Change

Subject: New Climate Economy

Witnesses: Professor Lord Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and Jeremy Oppenheim, Programme Director, New Climate Economy

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

9.15am (private), 9.30am (public)

High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill

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

Witnesses: Maurice and Pauline Kite; Peter and Lyndsay Elliman; Alan Butler; Andrew Watts and John Watts Farms; William Jones; Geoffrey Arthur; and Frederick Jackson

Room 5

9.20am (private), 9.30am (public)

House of Commons Governance

Subject: House of Commons Governance

Witnesses: John Borley, member, House of Commons Management Board; Sir David Higgins, Chair, HS2 Ltd and former Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority (at 10.30am)

Room 6

9.30am (private), 9.45am (public)

Defence

Subject: Pre-appointment hearing: Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces

Witnesses: Nicola Williams, the Government’s preferred candidate for post of Service Complaints Commissioner

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Environmental Audit

Subject: Climate change adaptation

Witnesses: Environment Agency, National Farmers' Union, Natural England and Water UK

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (private), 2.20pm (public)

European Scrutiny

Room 19

2.00pm (private)

High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill

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

Witnesses: Maurice and Pauline Kite; Peter and Lyndsay Elliman; Alan Butler; Andrew Watts and John Watts Farms; William Jones; Geoffrey Arthur; and Frederick Jackson

Room 5

2.00pm (public)

Northern Ireland Affairs

Room 6

2.00pm (private)

Public Accounts

Subject: (i) Financial sustainability of local authorities; (ii) The work of the Chief Executive of the Civil Service

Witnesses: (i) Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary, and Matthew Style, Director of Local Government Finance, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Sharon White, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury; (ii) John Manzoni, Chief Executive of the Civil Service (at 4.00pm)

Room 15

2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)

Treasury

Subject: Payment Systems Regulator

Witnesses: Hannah Nixon, Managing Director, Payment Systems Regulator

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

2.00pm (private), 2.15pm (public)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Subject: Defra performance in 2013-14

Witnesses: Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

Subject: Counter-terrorism and human rights

Witnesses: David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation

Room 8

9.30am (private), 9.45am (public)

Human Rights

Subject: Violence against women and girls

Witnesses: Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, Lynne Featherstone MP, Minister for Crime Prevention, Home Office, and Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims, Ministry of Justice

Room 8

2.15pm (private), 2.30pm (public)

Statutory Instruments

Room 7

3.45pm (private)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Forthcoming End of Day Adjournment Debates

Tuesday 2 December to Monday 8 December

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

 Future Departments Answering in Westminster Hall

Week beginning 8 December

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

Week beginning 15 December

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

 Determination of Business by the Backbench BUSINESS Committee

Thursday 4 December in the Chamber

Debate on a motion relating to FCA redress scheme: Guto Bebb, Mark Garnier, Mr Mark Williams

General debate on availability and pricing of branded medicines on the NHS: Mr Andrew Lansley, Dr Julian Huppert

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

Tuesday 9 December at 9.30am: Antisemitism: John Mann

Monday 15 December in Westminster Hall

General debate on e-petition relating to Millie’s Trust campaign to train all nurses in paediatric first aid: Mark Hunter