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Tuesday 7 February 2012

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions

Deputy Prime Minister, including Topical Questions; Attorney General

Urgent Question

Abu Qatada

Ten Minute Rule Motion - Matthew Hancock

Offshore Gambling (Licensing)

Debate

Opposition Day [un-allotted day] [half day] – Responsibility and reform for British banks

Backbench Business

Motion relating to metal theft

Adjournment - Ian Lavery

Asbestos in schools

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am Pete Wishart

Intellectual property and its contribution to economic growth

11:00am - 12:30pm Dr Sarah Wollaston

Government's alcohol strategy

12:30pm - 1:00pm Mr Frank Field

Operation of Wirral Borough Council

1:00pm - 1:30pm Sheryll Murray

Fitting of safety stop valves on fishing vessels

1:30pm - 2:00pm Angela Smith

Role of Government in supporting economic development in Barnsley

General Committee

Select Committee

Time Business
9:30am - Venue Cymru, Llandudno Welsh Affairs

Support for Armed Forces Veterans in Wales - Alistair Maxwell, Regional Manager (Wales) Royal British Legion; Mark Lovatt, Manager, St Dunstan’s Centre; and Clive Wolfendale, Chief Executive, CAIS

10:05am - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Transport

Road Safety - DCC Suzette Davenport, Roads Policing Lead, Association of Chief Police Officers, Inspector Alan Jones, Roads Policing Lead, Police Federation of England and Wales, and Chief Fire Officer David Etheridge, Road Safety Lead, Chief Fire Officers Association; and Brian Simpson MEP, Chair, European Parliament Transport and Tourism Committee, and Ellen Townsend, Policy Director, European Transport Safety Council, and Szabolcs Schmidt, European Commission(at 10.50 am)

10:15am - Room 6, Palace of Westminster Energy and Climate Change

Fuel poverty in the private rented and off-grid sectors - Association for the Conservation of Energy, Citizens Advice, and Friends of the Earth; London Borough of Newham, National Private Tenants Organisation, and Residential Landlords Association (at 11.00 a.m.)

10:30am - Palace of Westminster, Committee Room 15 Culture, Media and Sport

Library Closures - Miranda McKearney, Director, The Reading Agency, Andrew Coburn, The Library Campaign and Abigail Barker, Voices for the Library; Sue Charteris, author of the Charteris Report (at 11.30 am)

10:30am - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Health

PIP breast implants and regulation of cosmetic interventions - Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE, NHS Medical Director, Professor Sir Kent Woods, Chief Executive of MHRA, Dr Anne-Marie Slowther, Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics at Warwick Medical School and Consultant Clinical Ethicist at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and Mr Simon Withey, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Member of the Council of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Member of the Steering Committee looking at Standards in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

10:30am - Room 16, Palace of Westminster Business, Innovation and Skills

The Insolvency Service - Stephen Speed, Inspector General and Agency Chief Executive and, Graham Horne, Deputy Inspector General, The Insolvency Service

10:30am - Room 19, Palace of Westminster European Scrutiny

Reinforcing the eurozone - 10.30am Professor Paul Craig, University of Oxford, Professor Simon Hix, London School of Economics approx. 11.15am Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform

10:30am - Room 8, Palace of Westminster Justice

The budget and structure of the MoJ - Richard Morris, Group Managing Director, G4S Care and Justice Services, Tony Leech, Managing Director, Sodexo Justice Services, and Charlie Bruin, Business Director, Central Government, Liberata; Andy Keen-Downs, Chief Executive, Prison Advice & Care Trust, Sarah Payne, Chief Executive, Wales Probation Trust, Bernadette Byrne, Group Client Services Director, and Diane Cheesebrough, Chief Operating Officer, thebigword (at 11.15am)

11:00am - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

Private Investigators - Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner; Tony Imossi, President, Association of British Investigators, Ian Hopkins, Board Member and Past President, Institute of Professional Investigators, and Ian Withers, Governing Council Member, World Association of Professional Investigators (at 11.30 a.m.); Commander Peter Spindler, and Roy Clark QPM, retired Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (at 12.15 p.m.)

11:30am - European Commission, Berlaymont Building, Brussels, Belgium International Development

EU Development Assistance - Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development

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

The Armed Forces Covenant in Action? Part 2: Accommodation - Kim Richardson OBE, Chair, Naval Families Federation, Julie McCarthy, Chief Executive, Army Families Federation, and Dawn McCafferty, Chairman, RAF Families Federation. At 3.30 pm (approximately) Mr David Olney, Chief Operating Officer, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), Mr Gavin Barlow, Director Service Personnel Policy, Air Commodore Alan Opie, Head of Operations Accommodation (DIO), Brigadier John Wootton, Director Infrastructure Army HQ, Ministry of Defence

2:40pm - Room 5, Palace of Westminster Joint Committee on Human Rights

The Justice and Security Green Paper - Joshua Rozenberg; Ian Cobain; Jan Clements (at 3.20pm); Dr Lawrence McNamara

5:00pm - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Committees on Arms Export Controls

Strategic Export Controls - Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills + officials; Rt Hon William Hague, Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office + officials David Hall, Deputy Head, Counter Proliferation Department

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions - Lord Sheldon

Providing an efficient public library service

Oral Questions - Lord Dykes

Future legal basis for the European financial stability agreement

Oral Questions - Lord Lea of Crondall

Plans to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in June 2015

Oral Questions - Baroness Smith of Basildon

Safety and reliability of arrangements for transporting prisoners

Legislation - Lord McNally

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 8) - Lord McNally

Statement - Lord Henley

Release on bail of Abu Qatada

Short Debate - Baroness Hooper

Impact of EU trade agreements on African, Carribean and Pacific banana producers

10:00pm Estimated Rising Time

Grand Committee

Select Committee

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

- This is a private meeting.

10:30am - Room 3, Palace of Westminster Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (EU Sub-Committee A)

Financial Transaction Tax - This is a private meeting.

2:00pm - Room 5, Palace of Westminster Joint Committee on Human Rights

The Justice and Security Green Paper - (at 2.40pm) Joshua Rozenberg, Legal correspondent and broadcaster, Ian Cobain, Investigative reporter, The Guardian; and (at 3.20pm) Jan Clements, Editorial Legal Services, The Guardian; and Dr Lawrence McNamara, University of Reading.

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

- This is a private meeting.

3:15pm - Room 3, Palace of Westminster Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I

Higher Education in STEM Subjects - This is a private meeting.

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

- (at 3.35pm) Mr Jonathan Faull, Director General of the Directorate General Internal Market and Services of the EU Commission. This is a one-off evidence session on the Committee’s report - Auditors: market concentration and their role.

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

- This is a private meeting.

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