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Prime Minister's Questions: 29 October 2014

MPs ask questions to David Cameron in the House of Commons from midday on Wednesday 29 October

Greater transparency and accountability needed Mining

Mining

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee publish report on extractive industries

Health screening programmes Health

Health screening programmes

Science and Technology committee publishes their National Health Screening report

Lords committee scrutinises childcare workforce Childcare

Lords committee scrutinises childcare workforce

Affordable Childcare committee will discuss the pay, qualifications and status of the childcare workforce on 29th October

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MPs debate the Taxation of Pensions BillMPs debate the Taxation of Pensions Bill

Second reading of Bill takes place in Commons on Wednesday 29 October

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Wednesday 29 October 2014

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
11:30am Oral Questions

Northern Ireland

12:00pm Prime Minister's Question Time
Ten Minute Rule Motion - Andy Sawford

Railways (Public Sector Operators)

Motion

Relating to the Appointment of the Chairman of the National Audit Office

Legislation

Taxation of Pensions Bill - Second reading

Adjournment - Alec Shelbrooke

Callum Wark and sentencing of foreign drivers

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am Mr Keith Simpson

Costs of the Chilcot Inquiry

11:00am - 11:30am David Morris

Tunnel under Morecambe Bay

2:30pm - 4:00pm David Simpson

Domestic violence

4:00pm - 4:30pm Hywel Williams

Cavity wall insulation and problems of damp

4:30pm - 5:00pm Mr Dominic Raab

Value for money on South West Trains

General Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Room 9, Palace of Westminster Affordable Homes Bill Committee

to consider the Bill

Select Committee

Time Business
9:15am - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Science and Technology

GM foods and application of the precautionary principle in Europe - Síle Lane, Director of Campaigns, Sense About Science, Dr Jack Stilgoe, Lecturer in Social Studies of Science, University College London and Professor Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies, Lancaster University; Sue Davies, Chief Policy Adviser, Which? and Jon Woolven, Strategy and Innovation Director, Institute of Grocery Distribution; Dr Helen Ferrier, Chief Science and Regulatory Affairs Adviser, National Farmers’ Union, Peter Melchett, Policy Director, The Soil Association and Professor Ian Crute, Non-Executive Director, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

9:30am - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Justice

Older Prisoners: follow-up - Andrew Selous MP and Michael Spurr

9:30am - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Work and Pensions

Employment support for disabled people: Access to Work - Mr Mark Harper MP, Minister for Disabled People, Department for Work and Pensions and Colin Stewart, Work Services Director

9:45am - 3 Human Rights

Violence against women and girls - Vera Baird QC, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria and Sandra Horley CBE, Chief Executive, Refuge; Sara Browne, Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation, Rosie Lewis, the Angelou Centre and Rachel Horman

10:00am - Room 6, Palace of Westminster Business, Innovation and Skills

Business-University Collaboration - Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

2:15pm - Room 15, Palace of Westminster Public Accounts

Managing and replacing the Aspire contract - Liam Maxwell, Chief Technology Officer, HM Government

2:30pm - Room 8, Palace of Westminster European Scrutiny

UK's Commissioner-elect - Rt Hon Lord Hill of Oareford CBE

2:30pm - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Environmental Audit

Sustainable Development Goals - Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State, Department for International Development, Melinda Bohannon, Deputy Director, Post-2015 Goals, Department for International Development and James Jansen, Policy Adviser, International, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

The situation in Iraq and Syria and the threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - Professor Marc Weller, Cambridge University, Professor Adam Roberts, Oxford University and Dr Adrian Gallagher, Leeds University; Aaron Stein, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

2:45pm - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Treasury

Debt Management Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 - Robert Stheeman, Chief Executive, Debt Management Office, Jo Whelan, Deputy Chief Executive, and Co-Head of Policy and Markets, Debt Management Office and Jim Juffs, Chief Operating Officer, Debt Management Office

2:45pm - Room 15, Palace of Westminster Public Accounts

Fraud and error in Housing Benefit - Andrew Stevens, Assistant Director (Customer Delivery), East Kent Services and Ian Adams, Director, Financial Operations and Customer Services, Islington Council; Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, DWP, Mike Driver, Director General (Finance) and Steve Buckingham, SRO for Housing Benefit, including Fraud & Error, DWP

3:00pm - Room 16, Palace of Westminster Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food security: demand, consumption and waste - Dr Liz Goodwin, Chief Executive Officer, WRAP, Dr Richard Swannell, Director, WRAP and Maria Ana Neves, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Plan Zheroes; Tim Smith, Group Quality Director, Tesco plc; Nigel Jenney, Chief Executive, Fresh Produce Consortium

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
3:00pm Introduction(s)

Lord Goddard of Stockport

Oral Questions - Lord Hoyle

Standards and guidelines given to Police and Crime Commissioners

Oral Questions - Baroness Smith of Basildon

Recent research by the NSPCC into police investigations of child abuse

Oral Questions - Baroness Tonge

Government contribution to the reconstruction of infrastructure in Gaza

Oral Questions - Lord Harris of Haringey

Ensuring the UK can opt back into the European Arrest Warrant

Debate - Baroness Stowell of Beeston / Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Devolution following the Scotland referendum

Grand Committee

Time Business
3:45pm Legislation - Baroness Neville-Rolfe

Consumer Rights Bill - Committee stage (Day 6) - Baroness Neville-Rolfe

Select Committee

Time Business
10:00am - Room 2A, Palace of Westminster Extradition Law

Extradition Law - (at 10.10am) evidence will be heard from Judge Howard Riddle, Chief Magistrate, and Judge Emma Arbuthnot, Deputy to Chief Magistrate and (at approximately 11am) from Hilda Massey, Deputy Director Legal Aid Policy, Ministry of Justice, and Hugh Barratt, Director of Legal Aid Commissioning and Strategy, Ministry of Justice.

10:15am - Room 1, Palace of Westminster Constitution

The Office of Lord Chancellor - (at 10.30am) evidence will be heard from the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP, Attorney General, 2010-14; and Baroness Scotland of of Asthal QC, former Attorney General, 2007-10; and (at approximately 1.15pm) from the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, 2007-10

10:30am - Room 2, Palace of Westminster Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy (EU Sub-Committee D)

EU Regional Marine Cooperation - (at 11.00am) evidence will be heard from Nick Medic, Director of Offshore Renewables, RenewableUK; Jacopo Moccia, Head of Political Affairs, European Wind Energy Association; and Mark Pearce, Business Development Manager, National Grid.

10:30am - Room 4A, Palace of Westminster Affordable Childcare

Affordable Childcare - (at 10.35am) evidence will be heard from Liz Bayram, Chief Executive, Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) and Ben Thomas, National Officer (Early Years Education), UNISON and (at approximately 11.15am) from Valentine Mulholland, Policy Adviser, National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and Sarah Bagshaw, School Business Manager, St Bede Academy, Bolton.

10:30am - Room 3A, Palace of Westminster Home Affairs, Health and Education (EU Sub-Committee F)

EU Alcohol Strategy 2016–2022 - (at 10.45am) evidence will be heard from Katherine Brown, Director of the Institute of Alcohol Studies, Dr Evelyn Gillan, Chief Executive, Alcohol Focus Scotland and Dr Nick Sheron, Senior Lecturer and Head of Clinical Hepatology, University of Southampton

4:00pm - Room 1, Palace of Westminster Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection (EU Sub-Committee E)

The UK’s Opt-in and International Agreements - Evidence will be heard from Professor Steve Peers, Law School, University of Essex and Professor Gavin Barrett, Professor of European Constitutional and Economic Law , University College Dublin.

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