Week in Westminster

Thursday, Dec 9

Commons: Oral questions: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (including Topical Questions); Church Commissioners, House of Commons Commission, Parliamentary Works sponsor Body, Public Accounts Commission, Speaker’s committee on the Electoral Commission. Business Statement and Business Questions to the Leader of the House. Select Committee Statement: Select Committee Statement on the Fourth Special Report of the Defence Committee, Protecting those who protect us: Women in the Armed Forces from Recruitment to Civilian Life: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2021-222, HC 904; Backbench Business: Debate on a Motion on Contribution of Financial Services to the UK Economy; Debate on a Motion on Consular Support for British Citizens. Adjournment: Provision of services to vulnerable women and children asylum seekers in Stockton.

Westminster Hall: Debates on: Support for the UK’S transition to electric vehicles by 2030; Second Report of the Defence Committee, Protecting those who protect us: Women in the Armed Forces from Recruitment to Civilian Life.

Lords: Oral questions: Operation of the disabled students allowance scheme to ensure it is working in a timely manner and in the best interests of those it is set up to support; UK’S contribution to the

UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the current year and next year steps to ensure that UNWRA does not run out of funds; Ensuring small family farms remain economically viable during the transition to the Future Farming Programme for England; Ensuring the uninterrupted supply of all medicines to Northern Ireland from the end of this year. Debates: Scotland’s contribution to economic recovery and renewal, and how this may support wellbeing and quality of life across the UK; Details of the Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agreement for Transport for London for the period of Dec 11; Role of civil nuclear power in meeting the UK’S electricity needs and energy security.