Week in Westminster

Thursday, Jan 20 Commons:

Oral questions: International Trade (including Topical Questions). Business Statement and Business Questions to the Leader of the House. Backbench Business: Judgment of the Uyghur Tribunals; General Debate on Lawfare and the UK Court System. Adjournment: Detention of people with autism and other lifelong conditions under the Mental Health Act 1983. Westminster Hall: Debates on: The Nineteenth Report of the Science and Technology Committee, 2017-19, The work of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator, HC 1970, and the Government Response, HC (2019–21) 1319; UK and Israel trade negotiations.

Lords: Oral questions: Discussions with the devolved governments regarding monitoring of their public expenditure; Supply chain issues in the food and farming sector identified by the National Farmers Union and the British Retail Consortium and plans to prepare a long-term solution to these issues; Reports that Jens Stoltenberg, Nato Secretary General, expressed his intention to call for a meeting of the Nato-russia Council early in 2022, and that negotiators from the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe and the governments of Ukraine and Russia agreed to restore a full ceasefire between the Ukrainian government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine. Legislation: Health and Care Bill, Committee stage (Day 4).