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Welsh Affairs Committee to take evidence on the Severn Crossings

The Committee will ask questions about Government’s plans for the Crossings and future toll levels

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Tuesday 18 June 2013

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
11:30am Oral Questions

Foreign & Commonwealth Office, including Topical Questions

Motion

To approve a European Document relating to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

Motion

To approve a European Document relating to Enhanced Co-operation and a Financial Transaction Tax and documents relating to Economic and monetary union

Motion

To approve a European Document relating to the European Elections 2014

Backbench Business

Sudan

Adjournment - Richard Graham

Proposed changes to the Education Act and travelling families

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am Hazel Blears

Unpaid internships

11:00am - 11:30am Mrs Madeleine Moon

Invisible walls rehabilitation programme at HMP Parc

2:30pm - 4:00pm Gordon Henderson

Alcohol licensing advertising

4:00pm - 4:30pm Dan Rogerson

Railway services in north Cornwall

4:30pm - 5:00pm Hugh Bayley

Funding for NHS patients in York and North Yorkshire

General Committee

Time Business
8:55am - The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Committee

to consider the Bill

9:10am - Room 10, Palace of Westminster Finance Bill Committee

to consider the Bill

2:30pm - Room 12, Palace of Westminster First Delegated Legislation Committee

Motion in the name of Secretary Vince Cable relating to Financial Assistance to Industry in respect of early stage venture capital funds investing in small and medium sized enterprises.

2:30pm - Room 9, Palace of Westminster Second Delegated Legislation Committee

Draft Child Support and Claims and Payment (Miscellaneous Amendments and Change to the Minimum Amount of Liability) Regulations 2013

Select Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Room 8, Palace of Westminster Welsh Affairs

The Severn Crossings Toll: follow up - Stephen Hammond MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport and Chris Pope, Project Sponsor for the Severn Crossings, Highways Agency.

9:30am - Room 15, Palace of Westminster Health

Management of long-term conditions - Dr Karen Lowton, Senior Lecturer in Ageing and Health, Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London, Professor Alan Maynard OBE, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Dr Sue Roberts CBE, Chair, NHS Year of Care Partnerships and Dr Judith Smith, Director of Policy, Nuffield Trust

9:30am - Room 5, Palace of Westminster International Development

The Future of UK Development Co-operation Phase 1: Development Finance - Richard Manning, Chair of Board of Trustees, Insitute of Development Studies, Jonathan Glennie, Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute and Elizabeth Stuart, Director of Policy and Research, Save the Children; Peter Chowla, Co-ordinator, Bretton Woods Project, Matthew Martin, Director, Development Finance International and Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones, Colombia University

10:00am - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Treasury

Project Verde - António Horta-Osório, Group Chief Executive, Lloyds Banking Group and Sir Winfried Bischoff, Chairman, Lloyds Banking Group

10:00am - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Culture, Media and Sport

Regulation of the press - Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times and Mr Chris Blackhurst, Editor, The Independent

10:00am - Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Business, Innovation and Skills

Implications of Scottish Independence on business; higher education & research; and postal services - Institute of Directors Scotland and Professor David Bell, Professor of Economics, University of Stirling ; Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland

2:15pm - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Foreign Affairs

The UK's relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain - Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Minister for International Security Strategy, Ministry of Defence; Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jon Davies, Director, North Africa and Gulf, FCO and Sarah Macintosh, Director, Defence and International Security, FCO

2:30pm - Room 6, Palace of Westminster Scottish Affairs

The impact of the Bedroom Tax & other changes to housing benefit in Scotland - Keith Dryburgh, Policy Manager, Citizens Advice Scotland

2:30pm - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Defence

Defence implications of possible Scottish independence - Professor Trevor Taylor

2:45pm - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

Leadership and standards in the police service - Damian Green, Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice

3:00pm - Room 16, Palace of Westminster Back Bench Business

Proposals for backbench debates - Members of Parliament

4:00pm - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

The work of the Permanent Secretary - Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office

4:10pm - Room 5, Palace of Westminster Communities and Local Government

Community Budgets - Cllr Peter Halliday, Leader, Tendring District Council, Ian Davidson, Chief Executive, Tendring District Council, Richard Puleston, Assistant Chief Executive, Essex County Council on behalf of Essex Partnership Board and Cllr Kevin Bentley, Deputy Leader, Essex County Council; Steve Atkinson, Secretary, District Chief Executives Network, Chief Executive of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council representing District Councils' Network, Chief Inspector Nicola Faulconbridge, Tunbridge Wells District Commander, Nazeya Hussain, Head of Policy and Partnerships, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Paul Warren, Chief Executive, Rochdale District Council representing District Councils' Network

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions - Lord Hoyle

Proposed badger cull

Oral Questions - Baroness Tonge

Discussions regarding the right to security for Palestinian children living in the Gaza Strip

Oral Questions - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

Ensuring all children have access to sex and relationship education, including responsible use of the internet and social media

Oral Questions - Lord Steel of Aikwood

Compensation for victims of torture and ill-treatment during the Kenyan Emergency

Legislation - Baroness Verma

Energy Bill - Second reading - Baroness Verma

Grand Committee

Time Business
3:30pm Legislation - Viscount Younger of Leckie

Intellectual Property Bill [HL] - Committee stage (Day 3) - Viscount Younger of Leckie

Select Committee

Time Business
10:00am - Room 3, Palace of Westminster Economic and Financial Affairs (EU Sub-Committee A)

Genuine Economic and Monetary Union and its Implications for the UK - (at 10.15am) evidence will be heard from Professor Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, Citigroup and Dr Holger Schmieding, Chief Economist, Berenberg Bank and (at 11.30am) Dr Federico Steinberg, Senior Analyst Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid.

10:30am - Room 2, Palace of Westminster Mental Capacity Act 2005

Mental Capacity Act 2005 - (at 10.45am)evidence will be heard from John Hall (Deputy Director of Family Justice, MoJ), Nick Goodwin (Deputy Director of Court Tribunal Fees, former Deputy Director of Family Justice, MoJ), Anne-Marie Hamilton (acting Deputy Director of Social Care Quality and Safety Branch, DoH) and Claire Crawley (Senior Policy Manager, Adult Safeguarding, DoH)

10:30am - Room 4, Palace of Westminster Science and Technology

Scientific Infrastructure - (at 10.40am) evidence will be heard from Professor Gerhard Materlik CBE FRS, Chief Executive Diamond Light Source Ltd, Professor Jon Goff, Chair of ISIS User Committee, Professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Royal Holloway University of London and Professor Philip Nelson, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Professor of Acoustics, University of Southampton and (at 11.30am) Professor Gabriel Aeppli FRS, Quain Professor of Physics and the Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, Dr David Payne, Imperial College London, Materials Scientist and Professor David Brown, Director of Structural Biology, Argenta Discovery and Professor of Structural Biology, University of Kent

3:15pm - Room 2, Palace of Westminster Communications

Media plurality - (at 3.30pm) evidence will be heard from Professor Richard Collins, City, Huddersfield and the Open universities and (at 4.15pm) from Professor Steven Barnett, University of Westminster

3:30pm - Room 1, Palace of Westminster Economic Affairs

Corporate Taxation - at 3.35pm evidence will be heard from Edward Troup, Tax Assurance Commissioner and Second permanent Secretary, HM Revenue & Customs, Jim Harra, Director General for Business Tax, HM Revenue & Customs and Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director, Corporate Tax, HM Treasury.

4:00pm - Room 4, Palace of Westminster European Union

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