The Week in Westminster

Tuesday, April 21 Commons: Oral Questions: Ministry of Justice (including topical questions); Justice (including topical questions). Ten Minute Rule Motion: Pedicabs (London). Legislation: Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: 2nd Reading. Adjournment: Private car parks. Westminster Hall: No business scheduled for today.

Lords: Oral questions: Proposals contained in the report of the Lord Speaker’s committee on the size of the House for new appointments to the House of Lords to be on a “two-out, one-in” basis; Enabling members to take part in the proceedings of the House of Lords remotely; Representations made to the government of India to request the closure of call centres targeting British citizens with scams. Legislation: Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Bill (Money Bill), 2nd Reading and remaining stages.

Wednesday, April 22

Commons: Oral Questions: Wales Office. At noon, questions to the Prime Minister. Ten Minute Rule Motion: Public Advocate. Legislation: Finance Bill: 2nd Reading. Motions: Membership of the Liaison Committee; Membership of the Scottish Affairs Committee. Adjournment: Flood defences for Tenbury Wells. Westminster Hall: No business scheduled for today. Lords: Oral questions: Impact of COVID-19 on the Government’s Overseas Development Assistance spending priorities in 2020-21 and beyond; Appointment of a Shedecides champion; Impact of the restriction of movement on those defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable from

COVID-19. Legislation: Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill, 2nd Reading.

Thursday, April 23

Commons: Oral Questions: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (including topical questions); Attorney General. Business Statement and Business Questions to the Leader of the House. Backbench Business: Debate on a motion relating to Victims of the Equitable Life scandal; Debate on a motion relating to human rights in Kashmir. Adjournment: Restoration of canals.

Westminster Hall: No business scheduled for today.

Lords: Oral questions: Ensuring government support for the self-employed during the COVID-19 pandemic is sufficient; Impact of COVID-19 on the UK music sector and the creative economy; Plans to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824. Short debate: Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the prison population and offender rehabilitation programmes.

Friday, April 24

Commons: Private Members’ Bills, 2nd Readings: Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill; Unpaid Work Experience (Prohibition) (No 2) Bill; Hospitals (Parking Charges and Business Rates) Bill; Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill: 2nd Reading; International Development (Women’s Sanitary Products) Bill. Adjournment: Electoral reform.

Westminster Hall: No business scheduled for today.

Lords: No business announced for

today.