The Week in Westminster

Monday, Jan 25

Commons: Oral questions: Work and Pensions (including Topical Questions). Opposition Day Debates: Government’s proposed increase in council tax; Government’s plans for employment rights. Adjournment: Support for limited company directors during the COVID-19-19 outbreak.

Westminster Hall: No business scheduled for this week. Lords: Oral questions: Solarwinds cyberattack; How many of the new ship orders highlighted by the PM in his announcement about defence spending have been ordered; Government guidance to inform their plans to plant 30,000 hectares of trees per year; Rebuilding social capital. Statement: Vaccine roll-out. Legislation: Domestic Abuse Bill, Committee stage (Day 1).

Tuesday, Jan 26

Commons: Oral questions: HM Treasury (including Topical Questions). Ten Minute Rule Motion: Football (Regulation). Legislation: Environment Bill: Remaining stages (Day 1). Adjournment: Detention of Anoosheh Ashoori in Iran.

Lords: Oral questions: Increasing the number of houses being built; Impact of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on businesses and jobs in the night-time economy; Legislation on TV license evasion; Reviewing workers’ rights. Legislation: Counter-terrorism and Sentencing Bill, Committee stage (Day 1).

Wednesday, Jan 27

Commons: Oral questions: Scotland. At noon, questions to the Prime Minister. Ten Minute Rule Motion: Ministerial Interests (Emergency Powers). Consideration of Lords amendments: The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill; the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill. Adjournment: Support for golf tourism.

Lords: Oral questions: What plans the government have to limit the size of the House of Lords; Preparing the legislation to end “no fault” evictions; Improving education in schools about the Holocaust to promote tolerance and combat racism. Legislation: Domestic Abuse Bill, Committee stage (Day 2).

Thursday, Jan 28

Commons: Oral questions: Transport (including Topical Questions). Business Statement and Business Questions to the Leader of the House. Backbench Business: Debates on Holocaust Memorial Day 2021; the UN International Day of Education. Adjournment: Extension of driving theory test certificates during the COVID-19-19 outbreak.

Lords: Oral questions: Impact of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement on musicians and musical enterprises seeking to work and tour in the EU; Implementation of the UK-EU Joint Political Declaration on Asylum and Returns; Implementing the recommendations of the Lord Speaker’s Committee on the Size of the House. Legislation: Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill, 3rd reading; Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill, 3rd reading; Financial Services Bill, 2nd reading.

Friday, Jan 29

Commons and the Lords: Not sitting today and will next sit on Monday, Feb 1, 2021.