The Week in Westminster
Monday, Feb 19
Commons, Westminster Hall and Lords are in recess and will next sit on Tuesday, Feb 20.
Tuesday, Feb 20
Commons: Oral questions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (including Topical Questions). Ten Minute Rule Motion: Postal voting. Legislation: Sanctions and Anti-money Laundering Bill (Lords), 2nd reading. Adjournment: Level of funding by Arts Council England for coalfield communities.
Westminster Hall: Debates on: The future of basketball in the UK; PACE trial and its effect on people with ME; Recruitment and retention of NHS staff in Oxfordshire; Rail services to and from Kettering; Social housing and regeneration in Earls Court and West Kensington.
Lords: Oral questions: Improving the regulation of charities, social enterprises, and voluntary organisations; Promoting the forthcoming Commonwealth Summit; Improving social care for disabled people below retirement age. Legislation: Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill, 2nd Reading. Orders and regulations: Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun Freezing Order 2018. Short debate: United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading to Their Total Elimination.
Wednesday, Feb 21
Commons: Oral questions: Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (including Topical Questions). At noon, questions to the Prime Minister. Ten Minute Rule Motion: Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension). Legislation: Finance (No 2) Bill, Remaining stages. Adjournment: UK research centre for ceramics.
Westminster Hall: Debates on: Alternatives to a no-deal outcome in negotiations with the EU; Future of Coventry City Football Club; Application of TUPE to Carillion workers; Child to parent violence; Performance of East Midlands ambulance service.
Lords: Oral questions: Assessment of living conditions in Gaza; Loss of retention monies by small firms following insolvency of Carillion; Provision of and funding for local neighbourhood services. Legislation: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, Committee Stage (Day 1). Short debate: Promoting volunteering.