The Week in Westminster

Wednesday, May 23

Commons: Oral questions: International Development (including Topical Questions). At noon, questions to the Prime Minister. Ten Minute Rule Motion: Terminal Illness (Provision of Palliative Care and Support for Carers).

Westminster Hall: Debates on: Effect of police stop and search powers on BAME communities; Role of local communities in the planning system; UK relations with Qatar; Effect of leaving the EU on the higher education sector in Wales; Government policy on new psychoactive substances.

Lords: Oral questions: Restoration of devolved institutions in Northern Ireland; Additional support for the tourism industry; Allegations of genocide by Turkey against Kurds and Yezides of Afrin province in Syria. Short debate: Evacuation, search and rescue plans for large UK passenger ships operating in distant locations.

Thursday, May 24

Commons: Oral questions: Transport (including Topical Questions). Business Statement and Business Questions to the Leader of the House.

Westminster Hall: No business. Lords: Introduction: The Lord Bishop of London. Oral questions: Ensuring the Commonwealth Communiqué’s commitment to eradicate forced marriage is realised and assessing its inter-relationship with forced conversion; Supporting the Palestinian Authority in its complaint against Israel to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Report of the independent review of the application of sharia law in England and Wales. Debates on: European Union Committee report: ‘Brexit: competition and State aid’; International Relations Committee report: ‘The UK and the future of the Western Balkans’.