The Week in Westminster
Tuesday, March 7
Commons: Oral questions: Justice, including Topical Questions. Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee. Legislation: Children and Social Work Bill (HL), Report stage; Children and Social Work Bill (HL), Legislative Grand Committee; Children and Social Work Bill (HL), 3rd reading. Motion: Appointment of the Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority; Standing Orders. Adjournment: Rural policing and hare coursing.
Westminster Hall: Debates on: Beer Duty; Coast to Coast Walk; O’Neill review into antibiotic resistance; Regulation of the sale of student loans; Social care in Liverpool.
Lords: Legislation: European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, Report stage. Oral questions: Policy lessons learnt from the forecast of growing inequality in the Resolution Foundation report Living Standards 2017; Using article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to secure a new policy for the admission of migrants to the UK from the EU; Assessing the impact of government policy on people on low incomes living in rural areas. Legislation: European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, Report stage. Short debate: Economic and environmental benefits of shale gas development in the UK. Legislation: European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, 3rd reading.
Wednesday, March 8
Commons: Oral questions: Wales. At noon, questions to the Prime Minister. Financial Statement: Spring Budget Statement. Adjournment: Closure of Vinovium House and effect on the Child Maintenance System.
Westminster Hall: Debates on: Financial support for apprentices; Compensation and the Pandemrix vaccine; Proposed ban on microbeads; Extension of the right to buy to tenants of housing associations in Bedford; Broadband speeds and advertising.
Lords: Oral questions: Help for men who seek support in addressing their abusive behaviour; Local government support to increase the number of women in leadership roles; Hampton-Alexander review on increasing gender balance in FTSE companies. Legislation: Higher Education and Research Bill, Report stage (Day 2); Short debate: Strategy to increase the UK’s exports.
Thursday, March 9
Commons: Oral questions: Exiting the European Union, including Topical Questions. Business Statement from the Leader of the House. Debate: Continuation of the Budget debate. Adjournment: Inpatient beds at Rothbury Community Hospital.
Westminster Hall: Debates on: Second Report from the Scottish Affairs Committee, Demography of Scotland and the implications for devolution, HC 82, and the Government Response, HC 938; Human rights and the political situation in Turkey.
Lords: Oral questions: Helping displaced minority communities in Iraq to return to their homes in areas liberated from Daesh; Impact on claimants of the time taken between applying for Universal Credit and receiving payments; Proportion of the UK’s Armed Forces to be deployed east of Suez. Legislation: Criminal Finances Bill, 2nd reading. Debate: International Women’s Day.