The week in Westminster: July 16th - 20th

COMMONS

Monday
Questions – Defence
Debate – Health, adult social care
Adjournment – Rationing of care in the NHS

Tuesday
Questions – Health
Ten minute rule motion – Cosmetic surgery
Backbencher business - Relating to the public administration select committee’s recommendation for the prime minister’s advisor on ministerial interests to be empowered to instigate his own investigations.
Adjournment – Bail conditions for those charged with dangerous or careless driving

LORDS

Monday
Questions – Creation of 450,000 additional primary school places across England, lessons learnt from "one-stop shops" for public services in Georgia, incursions into the British sovereign waters off Gibraltar by the Spanish Guardia Civil, UN steps to apply the Olympic Truce in Syria.
Legislation - Smoke-free private vehicles bill - Committee of the whole House
Legislation - Supply and appropriation  bill, second reading
Legislation - Supply and appropriation  bill, committee of the whole House
Legislation - Supply and appropriation  bill, report stage
Legislation - Supply and appropriation  bill, third reading
Legislation - Groceries code adjudicator bill, report stage
Legislation - Finance bill, second reading
Legislation - Finance bill, committee of the whole House
Legislation - Finance bill, report stage
Legislation - Finance bill, third reading

Tuesday
Questions – Primary care trusts inappropriately restricting access to patient treatments, report 'how mental illness loses out in the NHS' published by the London School of Economics, funding adult social care
Legislation - Justice and security bill, committee of the whole House.

PICK OF THE COMMITTEES

Monday
16.00 - Internal market, infrastructure and employment committee, women on boards. Professor Susan Vinnicombe OBE, Cranfield University; Dr Ruth Sealy, Cranfield University; and (at 5.00pm) Arni Hole, Director General, Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Norwegian Government; France Henry-Labordere, Counsellor for Labour, Health & Social Affairs, French Government; and Joëlle Simon, Director of Legal Affairs, MEDEF.

Wednesday
10.30 - Home affairs, health and education committee, the EU's approach to global migration and mobilityCharles Clarke, former Home Secretary and Visiting Professor in Politics at the University of East Anglia.
 


 

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