Week in Westminster

Tuesday, Dec 13 Commons: Oral questions: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (including Topical Questions); Ten Minute Rule Motion: Free School Meals (Primary Schools). Legislation: Levelling up and Regeneration Bill: Remaining Stages. Adjournment: Potential harms of vaccines. Westminster Hall: Debates on: Business Rates and Levelling Up; Government funding for research into motor neurone disease; DWP policy on benefit sanctions; Effectiveness of the Marine Management Organisation; Patient pathways and research funding for aortic dissection. Lords: Introduction: Lord Prentis of Leeds. Oral questions: Increasing the number of renewable energy generation licences; Government representations from rail passenger groups, and other stakeholders, about the proposed closure of railway station ticket offices; Which government departments share responsibility for the funding of, and decisions about, school meals in term times and vacations; Number of Albanian asylum seekers currently waiting for a decision about their claim; how many applications have been accepted in the last 12 months and how many have been refused. Legislation: Procurement Bill, third reading; Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, third reading. Orders and regulations: Draft Voter Identification Regulations 2022, motion to approve; Draft Voter Identification Regulations 2022, motion to decline; Draft Voter Identification Regulations 2022, motions to regret. Legislation: Public Order Bill, committee stage (final day).