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Wednesday 8 February 2012

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
11:30am Oral Questions

Cabinet Office, including Topical Questions

Prime Minister's Question Time
Ten Minute Rule Motion - Luciana Berger

Health and Safety (Amendment)

Motion

Police Grants and Local Government Finance Reports

Adjournment - Tessa Munt

Future of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Treatment in England

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am David Rutley

International trade and British exports

11:00am - 11:30am Mr John Whittingdale

Broadcasting of court proceedings

2:30pm - 4:00pm Mr Jamie Reed

Future of small rural schools

4:00pm - 4:30pm Diana Johnson

Haemophilia care

4:30pm - 5:00pm Mr Peter Bone

Human trafficking and the need for a national rapporteur

General Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Room 14, Palace of Westminster Welsh Grand Committee

The UK Government’s agricultural policy as it relates to Wales

2:30pm - Room 14, Palace of Westminster Welsh Grand Committee

The UK Government’s agricultural policy as it relates to Wales

Select Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Room 16, Palace of Westminster Public Administration

- 9.30am: Lord Burns;and Lord Carter of Coles 10.15am: Lord Rees of Ludlow; and Sir David King

10:00am - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Science and Technology

Science and international development - Professor Anthony Costello, Professor of International Child Health and Director, UCL Institute for Global Health, Dr John Kirkland, Deputy Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Professor Melissa Leach, Director, STEPS Centre, and Professor Andrew Westby, Director, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

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

A Robust Grid for 21st Century Scotland - Paul Smith, Director of Operations, Energy Networks Association Frank Mitchell, CEO, ScottishPower Energy Networks Vicky Kelsall, Customer Service Director, ScottishPower Energy Networks Mark Mathieson, Managing Director, Networks, Scottish & Southern Energy Alan Broadbent, Head of Engineering, Networks, Scottish & Southern Energy. At approx 3.30 pm Rachel Fletcher, Acting Senior Partner, Smarter Grids and Governance: Distribution, Ofgem Hannah Nixon, Acting Senior Partner, Transmission, Ofgem Jeremy Sainsbury, Chairman, Scottish Renewables

2:30pm - Room 19, Palace of Westminster European Scrutiny

Reinforcing the eurozone - 2.30pm Professor Michael Dougan, Liverpool Law School, Martin Howe QC approx. 3.30pm Wolfgang Münchau, President, Eurointelligence ASBL, and Associate Editor of the Financial Times, and Mr Douglas McWilliams, Chief Executive, Centre for Economic and Business Research, and Roger Bootle, Managing Director, Capital Economics

3:15pm - Room 15, Palace of Westminster Public Accounts

The introduction of the Work Programme - (at 3.15pm) Professor Dan Finn, Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth, Geraldine Blake, Chief Executive, Community Links, Baroness Stedman-Scott, Chief Executive, Tomorrow's People (at 4.00pm) Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Alan Cave, Senior Responsible Owner, The Work Programme, Andrew Dutton, Chief Executive, A4e

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
3:00pm Oral Questions - Lord Hoyle

Compulsory microchipping of dogs

Oral Questions - Lord Warner

Removal of Israel’s economic blockade of Gaza

Oral Questions - Lord Vinson

Regional spending under the EU structural and cohesion funds

Oral Questions - Baroness Gardner of Parkes

Reducing the number of serious bicycle accidents in London

Legislation - Earl Howe

Health and Social Care Bill - Report stage - Earl Howe

Short Debate - Lord Warner

Blockade of Gaza

Grand Committee

Select Committee

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

EU Freshwater Policy - (at 11.00am) (via video-conference) Frédéric de Hemptinne, Principal Consultant, The Sustainable Synergies Group (SSG).

4:00pm - Room 2A, Palace of Westminster Justice and Institutions (EU Sub-Committee E)

- This is a private meeting.

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