The Lords today: Abusive football fans and genetic technology

The House of Lords sits from 2.30 p.m. with two new peers taking their seats, air chief marshal Stuart Peach and Peter Hendy, the chair of Network Rail.

There will then be oral questions on housing benefit for domestic abuse victims, the Information Commissioner’s Office reprimanding Department for Education for breaching data protection laws and abuse against football referees at football matches.

The main business of the day is the committee stage debate on the genetic technology (precision breeding) bill, which would allow gene-editing.