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Tuesday 22 May 2012

House of Commons

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions

Deputy Prime Minister, including Topical Questions; Attorney General

Motion - Mr John Whittingdale

Privilege

Legislation

Financial Services Bill - Report stage (Day 2)

Legislation

Financial Services Bill - Third reading

Legislation

Civil Aviation Bill - Third reading

Adjournment - Andrew Selous

Littering and flytipping

Westminster Hall

Time Business
9:30am - 11:00am Roberta Blackman-Woods

Effect of proposed changes to child benefit

11:00am - 12:30pm Chris Skidmore

Foreign nationals' use of the NHS

12:30pm - 1:00pm Sheila Gilmore

Government policy on incandescent light bulbs

1:00pm - 1:30pm David Morris

Fracking

1:30pm - 2:00pm Mr John Denham

Funding of Art Asia (Southampton)

General Committee

Time Business
10:30am - Room 11, Palace of Westminster Third Delegated Legislation Committee

Draft Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Amendment) Order 2012

10:30am - Room 10, Palace of Westminster Finance Bill Committee

to consider the Bill

4:30pm - Room 9, Palace of Westminster Seventh Delegated Legislation Committee

Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

4:30pm - Room 12, Palace of Westminster European Committee B

European Union Document No. 11658/11, relating to the European Commission’s Green Paper on the application of EU criminal justice legislation in the field of detention

Select Committee

Time Business
10:00am - Thatcher Room, Portcullis House Treasury

Corporate Governance and remuneration in the financial services sector - Baroness Hogg, Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, Mr Peter Montagnon, Senior Investment Adviser, Financial Reporting Council and Sir David Walker, Senior Adviser, Morgan Stanley

10:15am - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House Energy and Climate Change

The road to UNFCCC COP 18 and beyond - Professor Michael Jacob, visiting professor, and Dr Robert Falkner, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Grantham Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Professor Jouni Paavola, Deputy Director of Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and Co-Director of Sustainability Research Institute School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds

10:15am - Grimond Room, Portcullis House Energy and Climate Change

The road to UNFCCC COP 18 and beyond - London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Leeds

10:30am - Room 6 Health

Government’s Alcohol Strategy - Brigid Simmonds OBE, Chief Executive, British Beer and Pub Association, and and Henry Ashworth, Chief Executive, The Portman Group

10:30am - Room 6, Palace of Westminster Health

Government’s Alcohol Strategy - Brigid Simmonds OBE, Chief Executive, British Beer and Pub Association, and Henry Ashworth, Chief Executive, The Portman Group; Barry Eveleigh, Lead Commissioner for Drug Treatment, Birmingham Drug & Alcohol Action Team, and Jacqui Kennedy, Director of Regulation and Enforcement, Birmingham City Council (at 11.45 am)

10:30am - Room 8 Business, Innovation and Skills

Trade and Investment: Brazil - London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, British Exporters Association, Federation of Small Businesses and Brazilian Development Bank and Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain

10:30am - Room 15 Public Administration

Honours System - Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service and Chair of the Honours Committee, Sir John Parker, Chair of the Economy Honours Committee, Dame Mary Marsh, Chair of the State Honours Committee and Richard Tilbrook, Head of the Honours and Appointments Secretariat, Cabinet Office

10:45am - Room 18 Foreign Affairs

The FCO's human rights work in 2011 - Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch

10:45am - Wilson Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

The work of the UK Border Agency and Border Force - Brian Moore QPM, Director General, Border Force

10:45am - Wilson Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

The work of the UK Border Agency and Border Force - Brian Moore QPM, Director General. UK Border Force

11:00am - Room 16 Education

The Child protection system in England - Professor Eileen Munro, District Judge Nicholas Crichton, CAFCASS and Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive, CAFCASS

11:30am - Wilson Room, Portcullis House Home Affairs

Private Investigators - Dan Morrison, Partner, Grosvenor Law LLP, Julian Pike, Partner, Farrer & co LLP and Mike Schwarz, Partner, Bindmans LLP; Bill Butler, Chief Executive, Security Industry Authority; Lynne Featherstone MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for equalities and criminal information

11:45am - Room 6 Health

Government’s Alcohol Strategy - Barry Eveleigh, Lead Commissioner for Drug Treatment, Birmingham Drug & Alcohol Action Team, and and Jacqui Kennedy, Director of Regulation and Enforcement, Birmingham City Council.

2:30pm - Room 6 Scottish Affairs

Blacklisting in Employment - Maria Fyfe

3:15pm - Room 15 Public Accounts

Fraud within welfare to work providers - (at 3.15pm) Witnesses to be confirmed (at 4.00pm) Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Alan Cave, Delivery Director, Department for Work and Pensions

House of Lords

Main Chamber

Time Business
2:30pm Oral Questions - Baroness Thornton

Access to and use of disability services by black and minority ethnic disabled people

Oral Questions - Baroness Hughes of Stretford

Careers advice in schools

Oral Questions - Lord Haskel

Publicity for British Olympic and Paralympics product manufacturers

Oral Questions - Lord McKenzie of Luton

Proposed action to take in the light of the house building data for the quarter to March 2012

Legislation - Baroness Wilcox

Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [HL] - Second reading - Baroness Wilcox

Debate - Lord Hannay of Chiswick

European Union Committee Report – UK opt-in to Directive on the freezing and confiscation of the proceeds of crime

Grand Committee

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

Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2012

Orders and Regulations - Baroness Northover

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Amendment) Order 2012

Orders and Regulations - Earl Howe

Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Amendment) Order 2012

Orders and Regulations - Earl Howe

Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Select Committee

Time Business
10:30am - Room 3A, Palace of Westminster Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy (EU Sub-Committee D)

- This is a private meeting.

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

- (at 10.45am) Guy Sears, Investment Management Association (IMA); Christian Krohn, Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME); and Chris Bates, Clifford Chance; on MiFID II.

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

Private meeting

2:45pm - Room 2, Palace of Westminster Communications

Superfast Broadband - (at 3.15pm) Chi Onwurah MP, former Head of Telecoms Technology, Ofcom and Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; (at 4.00pm) Mr Andrew Barron, Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Media; and (at 4.45pm) Mr Steve Robertson, former Head of Openreach, Chief Executive Officer, Tru.

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

The Economic Implications for the United Kingdom of Scottish Independence - (at 3.35pm) Professor John Kay, Oxford University.

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

Private meeting

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