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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

No business announced for today

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.