The Week in Westminster
Monday, January 15
Commons: Oral questions: Home Office (including Topical Questions). Motion: The Speaker’s absence. Legislation: Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill: Committee of the whole House and remaining stages. Motion: Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament. Adjournment: Funding for public services in Cornwall.
Westminster Hall: Debate: e-petition 625515, relating to allowances and tax arrangements for foster carers.
Lords: Oral questions: Ending poverty through international development aid; Restricting the use of engineered stone and making silicosis a notifiable disease; Graduated driving licences for young, newly qualified drivers; Consultation on news and current affairs programmes, including the future of Newsnight, before the next renewal of the BBC’S Royal Charter. Legislation: Automated Vehicles Bill – committee stage (day 2).
Tuesday, January 16
Commons: Oral questions: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Ten Minute Rule Motion: Scotland (Selfdetermination). Adjournment: Pensioners and the cost of living.
Westminster Hall: General Debate: Trends in excess deaths. Debates: Protection of heritage assets in Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency; Preventing misinformation and disinformation in online filter bubbles; Child poverty in Greater Manchester; Use and sale of illegal vapes.
Lords: Oral questions: Coram’s Charter for Children and steps to implement its recommendations to create better chances for children; Letter to the government by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; BBC Panorama documentary ‘The Water Pollution Cover-up’ and the ability of the Environment Agency to regulate and police water companies. Questions to the Foreign Secretary: the Rohingya Refugee crisis; securing a lasting ceasefire arrangement between Israel and Gaza; rules-based international order. Legislation: Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-pacific Partnership) Bill – report stage; Post Office (Horizon System) Compensation Bill – second reading and all remaining stages.