Week in Westminster

Thursday, Dec 14 Commons: Oral questions: Exiting the European Union (including Topical Questions). Business Statement: Business questions to the Leader of the House. Backbench Business: Equality of pension provision for women; Hormone pregnancy tests. Adjournment: Future of South Tyneside Hospital.

Westminster Hall: Debates on: 12th Report of the Home Affairs Committee, Asylum Accommodation, HC 637, Session 2016-17, and the Government Response, HC 551; Fourth Report of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, HM Government support for UK victims of IRA attacks that used Gaddafi-supplied Semtex and weapons, HC 49, Session 2016-17, and the Government response, HC 331.

Lords: Oral questions: Impact of measures announced in the Budget on the north east of England; Revelations contained in the Paradise Papers; Transferring of responsibilities relating to Disabled Students’ Allowances for some students to higher education providers. Debates on: Report by the Children’s Commissioner for England ‘On measuring the number of vulnerable children in England’; Report of the Bach Commission ‘The Right to Justice’. Short debate: Addressing the root causes of poverty and disadvantage in the UK.