House of Commons
Business for Thursday 07 June 2018
SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER
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9.30am |
Prayers |
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Afterwards |
Oral Questions: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
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10.10am |
Oral Questions: Church Commissioners and the House of Commons Commission |
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10.30am |
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Select Committee Statements on: |
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No debate |
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Until 5.00pm |
Privilege (Motion) |
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Until 5.00pm |
Backbench Business: |
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Until 5.30pm or for half an hour |
Adjournment Debate: Role of secondary ticketing (Mr Richard Bacon) |
Westminster Hall
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1.30pm |
Third Report of the Transport Committee, Airports National Policy Statement, HC 548 |
Business Today: Chamber
9.30am Prayers
Followed by
QUESTIONS
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1Jessica Morden (Newport East)
Whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on introducing a deposit return scheme. (905701)
2Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland)
What plans he has put in place to support the UK agricultural sector in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (905703)
3James Frith (Bury North)
What assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the level of funding for flood defences on the effectiveness of those defences. (905705)
4Mark Pawsey (Rugby)
What steps he is taking to reform producer responsibility systems to incentivise producers to take more responsibility for the environmental effects of their products. (905708)
5Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith)
What plans he has to ensure that environmental standards are maintained after the UK leaves the EU. (905709)
6Andrew Rosindell (Romford)
When he plans to publish the findings of his consultation on the draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals on five-year sentences for animal cruelty. (905712)
7Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
What plans his Department has to limit the environmental effect of fracking. (905713)
8Jim Shannon (Strangford)
What steps he is taking to support the UK fishing industry as the UK leaves the EU. (905714)
9Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
What plans he has to ensure that environmental standards are maintained after the UK leaves the EU. (905715)
10Mary Robinson (Cheadle)
What steps he is taking to tackle waste crime. (905716)
At 10.00am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
T1Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford)
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (905719)
T2John Grogan (Keighley) (905721)
T3Maria Caulfield (Lewes) (905722)
T4Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (905723)
T5Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (905725)
T6Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (905726)
At 10.10am
Oral Questions to the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners and the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission
1Joan Ryan (Enfield North)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what progress the Church of England has made on the Clewer initiative to tackle modern day slavery. (905689)
2John Grogan (Keighley)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what initiatives the Anglican Communion is supporting in the Diocese of Jerusalem to help promote peace between the Israeli and Palestinian Christian and Muslim communities. (905690)
3Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what progress has been made since the Columba Declaration on promoting closer ties between the Church of Scotland and the Church of England. (905691)
4Michael Fabricant (Lichfield)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England and Anglican Communion are taking to promote a more tolerant attitude towards members of the LGBTQ community; and if she will make a statement. (905692)
5Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to promote bell ringing. (905693)
6John Howell (Henley)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England and Anglican Communion are taking to tackle violence against Christians in Nigeria. (905694)
7Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to support the provision of religious literacy training for government departments and embassies. (905695)
8Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what guidance the Church of England issues to parish churches on support for orphanages overseas. (905696)
9Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what the Church of England's policy is on the development of affordable housing on Church land. (905697)
10David Linden (Glasgow East)
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many accidents or injuries have been reported in the division lobbies during a division in each year since 2008. (905699)
11Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)
To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent discussions the Church of England has had with Government Ministers on the General Synod’s resolution on gay conversion therapy; and if she will make a statement. (905700)
URGENT QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS
10.30am
Urgent Questions (if any)
Business Question to the Leader of the House
Ministerial Statements (if any)
Select Committee Statement on the publication of the Third Report of the Scottish Affairs Committee, RBS branch closures, HC 682
Select Committee Statement on the publication of the Seventh Report of the Environmental Audit Committee, Greening Finance: embedding sustainability in financial decision making, HC 1063
PRESENTATION OF BILLS
No debate (Standing Order No. 57)
Violent Crime (Sentences)
Keith Vaz
Bill to increase the minimum custodial sentence on conviction for possession of a knife or other offensive weapon for an offender aged 18 years or over and to increase the minimum period of detention and training order for a person aged 16 or 17; to set a minimum custodial sentence on conviction for an offender in possession of a knife or other weapon and intending to commit any offence or having such a weapon available to use in committing murder; and for connected purposes.
BUSINESS OF THE DAY
Until 5.00pm
Damian Collins
That this House takes note of the Third Special Report of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (HC 1115); and orders Mr Dominic Cummings to give an undertaking to the Committee, no later than 6pm on 11 June 2018, to appear before that Committee at a time on or before 20 June 2018.
Notes:
This motion was given precedence by Mr Speaker as a matter of privilege on 6 June.
2. BACKBENCH BUSINESS
Until 5.00pm (Standing Order No. 9(3))
Nick Herbert
Mr Virendra Sharma
That this House recognises that tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing 1.7 million people a year; notes that at the current rate of progress, the world will not reach the Sustainable Development Goal target of ending TB by 2030 for another 160 years; believes that without a major change of pace 28 million people will die needlessly before 2030 at a global economic cost of £700 billion; welcomes the forthcoming UN high-level meeting on TB in New York on 26 September as an unprecedented opportunity to turn the tide against this terrible disease; further notes that the UN General Assembly Resolution encourages all member states to participate in the high-level meeting at the highest possible level, preferably at the level of heads of state and government; and calls on the Government to renew its efforts in the global fight against TB, boost research into new drugs, diagnostics and a vaccine, and for the Prime Minister to attend the UN high-level meeting.
Early elections, human rights and the political situation in Turkey
Joan Ryan
That this House has considered early elections, human rights and the political situation in Turkey.
Notes:
The subjects for these debates were determined by the Backbench Business Committee.
ADJOURNMENT DEBATE
Until 5.30pm or for half an hour (whichever is later) (Standing Order No. 9(7))
Role of secondary ticketing: Mr Richard Bacon
Business Today: Westminster Hall
ORDER OF BUSINESS
The sitting will last for up to three hours (Standing Order No. 10(1)).
1.30pm
That this House has considered the Third Report of the Transport Committee, Airports National Policy Statement, HC 548: Lilian Greenwood
Notes:
The subject of this debate was determined by the Liaison Committee.
The sitting will be suspended and time added if divisions take place in the main Chamber (Standing Order No. 10(3)).
Written Statements
STATEMENTS TO BE MADE TODAY
Minister for the Cabinet Office
1.Northern Ireland
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2.Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
3.EU Exit
Secretary of State for the Home Department
4.Security Industry Authority Review
Secretary of State for International Trade
5.EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) 22 May 2018
Secretary of State for Transport
6.East Midlands Invitation to Tender
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
7.Universal Credit
Notes:
Texts of Written Statements are available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/.
Committees meeting today
The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be changed without notice.
Public Bill Committees
Tenant Fees Bill
Further to consider the Bill
Witnesses: Local Government Association and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (until no later than 12.15pm); Shelter, Citizens Advice, Generation Rent, and the NUS (until no later than 1.00pm)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
11.30am (public)
Tenant Fees Bill
Further to consider the Bill
Room 12
2.00pm (public)
Select Committees
Welsh Affairs
Subject: Prison provision in Wales
Witnesses: Alun Davies AM, Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services, and Martin Swain, Deputy Director of Community Safety, Welsh Government
National Assembly for Wales
11.15am (private), 11.30am (public)
Welsh Affairs
Subject: Brexit: agriculture, trade and the repatriation of powers
Witnesses: Lesley Griffiths AM, Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, and Tim Render, Director, Environment and Rural Affairs, Welsh Government
National Assembly for Wales
1.20pm (private), 1.30pm (public)
Committee reports published today
EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION
4th Special Report: The future UK-EU relationship: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report, HC 1150
Time of publication: 11.00am
LIAISON
2nd Report: Witness gender diversity, HC 1033
Time of publication: 0.01am