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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill Marriage Bill

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

Day two of report stage and the third reading of the Bill take place in the Commons on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Committee report calls for expansion at Heathrow Report

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Transport Committee reject calls for a new hub airport east of London and urge Government to permit the expansion of Heathrow

Private Members' Bills Ballot Bills ballot

Private Members' Bills Ballot

The ballot for Private Members’ Bills for the 2013-14 session took place on 16 May 2013. Read the results

Henry Moore sculpture Conservation

Henry Moore sculpture conservation

Find out about the conservation process of "Knife Edge Two Piece"

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Commons remaining stages: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

MPs to debate report stage and third reading of Bill

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Tuesday 21 May 2013

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
11:30am Oral Questions

Justice, including Topical Questions

Urgent Question - Andy Burnham

A&E Departments

Legislation

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Report stage (Day 2)

Legislation

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Third reading

Motion

To approve a European Document relating to Syria

Adjournment - Robert Neill

The proposals of Lidl UK to demolish the Porcupine public house, Mottingham

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am Mr David Amess

UK City of Culture 2017

11:00am - 11:30am Mr Philip Hollobone

Planning issues and the village of Broughton

2:30pm - 4:00pm Simon Danczuk

Government support for the high street

4:00pm - 4:30pm Alex Cunningham

Armed forces recruitment age

4:30pm - 5:00pm Damian Collins

Marine conservation zones

General Committee

Time Business
8:55am - Room 9, Palace of Westminster Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee

Draft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2013

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

to consider the Bill

Select Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Room 15, Palace of Westminster Justice

The work of the Crown Prosecution Service - Keir Starmer, QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Crown Prosecution Service

9:30am - Room 6, Palace of Westminster Business, Innovation and Skills

UK Retail Sector - British Retail Consortium; Association of Convenience Stores; British Council of Shopping Centres

9:30am - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Education

School Sports following London 2012 - Wayne Allsopp, Business Development Manager, New College Leicester, Trystan Williams, Head, The Springfields Academy, Wiltshire, Denise Gladwell, Head, St Breock Primary School, Cornwall and Paul Harris, Head, Curwen School, Newham, London; Baroness Sue Campbell, Chair of Youth Sport Trust, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Dame Tessa Jowell

9:30am - Room 8, Palace of Westminster Health

Emergency Services and Emergency Care - Dr Patrick Cadigan, Registrar, Royal College of Physicians, Dr Mike Clancy, President, College of Emergency Medicine and and Mike Farrar, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation

10:00am - Room 5, Palace of Westminster Treasury

Private Finance 2 - Lord Deighton of Carshalton, Commercial Secretary, HM Treasury and Geoffrey Spence, Chief Executive, Infrastructure UK, HM Treasury

10:00am - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Energy and Climate Change

Bioenergy - RSPB, Centre for Energy Policy and Technology, Imperial College, BSW Timber and Wood Panel Industries Federation; Drax Group plc, Green Circle Bioenergy (US Industrial Pellets Association), Estover Energy Ltd and GB Railfreight

10:30am - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Culture, Media and Sport

Regulation of the press - David Newell, Director, Newspaper Society, Adrian Jeakings, President, Newspaper Society, David Montgomery, Chairman, Local World, Christopher Thomson, Managing Director, D.C. Thomson & Company Ltd and Ashley Highfield, Chief Executive Officer, Johnston Press plc

2:15pm - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Energy and Climate Change

Energy Prices, Profits and Poverty - Ofgem; Department of Energy and Climate Change

2:30pm - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Foreign Affairs

Extremism and political instability in North and West Africa - Professor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford and Imad Mesdoua, Political Analyst, Pasco Risk Management; Jon Marks, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

3:00pm - Room 8, Palace of Westminster Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Contamination - Directorate General of the European Commission for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO)

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions - Lord Hannay of Chiswick

UN Arms Trade Treaty

Oral Questions - Lord Vinson

Reduction and public awareness of the UK's £46 billion annual trading deficit with the EU

Oral Questions - Baroness Tonge

Priorities for the G8 meeting on 17 June

Oral Questions - Lord Morris of Aberavon

Inquiries into all aspects of the investigation and prosecution of large scale sexual offences

Statement - Earl Howe

GP services

Legislation - Earl Howe

Care Bill [HL] - Second reading - Earl Howe

10:00pm Estimated Rising Time

Grand Committee

Time Business
3:30pm Orders and Regulations - Lord Popat

Draft Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013

Orders and Regulations - Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Draft Police Act 1997 (Criminal Record Certificates: Relevant Matters) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013; Draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013

Short Debate - Viscount Astor

Alternative routes for HS2 and compensation terms for those affected

5:45pm Estimated Rising Time

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 - Evidence will be heard at 10.15am from the following witnesses, Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director, Centre for European Reform, John Peet, Europe Editor, The Economist and Mats Persson, Director, Open Europe.

10:00am - Room 2, Palace of Westminster Soft Power and the UK's Influence

Private meeting

10:40am - Room 4, Palace of Westminster Science and Technology

- Evidence will be heard at 10.40am on ‘Science advice’ from: Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and approximately at 11.40am evidence on ‘Science spend’ from: Dr Hermann Hauser, Co-founder, Amadeus Capital and Professor John Pethica, Vice-President, Royal Society.

12:00pm - Room 3A, Palace of Westminster Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Committee

Private meeting

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

Private meeting

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

Corporate Taxation, - Evidence will be heard at 3.35pm from Bill Dodwell, Head of Tax Policy Group, Deloitte, Chris Sanger, Global Head of Tax Policy, Ernst & Young, Adam Broke, Tax Specialist, Mercer & Hole and Richard Collier, Tax Partner, PWC and at 4.15pm from Richard Murphy, Director, Tax Research LLP, Mike Lewis, Tax Justice Policy Adviser, ActionAid, Alex Prats, Principal Economic Justice Advisor, Christian Aid and Richard Brooks, Author & Joumalist.

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

Private meeting

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