Westminster and Wales

Parliamentary Business

Please find below the Westminster Business for the week beginning 14 May and the provisional business thereafter.

House of Commons

14 May – Debate on the Queen’s speech – Business and economy

16 May – Adjournment debate on Peel Holdings and planning law (Jack Straw, Lab, Blackburn)

17 May – Energy and climate change questions

17 May – Ballot result expected for private members’ bills

17 May – Debate on the Queen’s speech - jobs and growth

24 May – Business, innovation and skills questions

House of Lords

14 May – Motion to appoint the membership of the committee of selection

14 May – Debate on the Queen’s speech - constitutional affairs

15 May – Debate on the Queen’s speech - education, culture, home affairs, health, law and justice and welfare

16 May – Debate on the Queen’s Speech - Agriculture, business, the economy, energy, environment, local government and transport – The Labour Party has tabled a motion of regret specific to the debate on this day as follow: “but regret the failure of Your Majesty’s Government properly to address economic recovery, especially promoting growth and jobs and the issues of general living standards and the one million young people out of work, and deplore the incoherence and the lack of vision of the measures proposed by Your Majesty’s Government for the coming Session of Parliament”

16 May – Oral Question – What assessment they have made of the recent Green Alliance report into the use of tax reliefs to promote sustainable, green growth (Baroness Worthington, Lab)

22 May – Second Reading – Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill – CLA to brief

Committees

16 May – Environmental Audit Committee – Subject: Wildlife crime – witness: Sergeant Ian Knox, Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit

16 May – Public Accounts Committee – Subject: Regional Growth Fund – witnesses: Sir Bob Kerslake, permanent secretary, CLG and Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary, BIS

17 May – Political and Constitutional Reform – Subject: Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists – witnesses: Mark Harper MP, minister for political and constitutional reform

APPG

15 May – Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group – Following the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework, this seminar will seek to explore how the Government’s vision for planning will impact upon the waste management sector and look forward, beyond the presumption in favour of sustainable development, to the dedicated National Waste Management Plan, due for publication in late 2013. Join the APRSRG to discuss how planning policy will shape the stability and growth or the sustainable resource management sector and examine the potential future of waste planning policy.

15 May – Green Deal Group APPG – Meeting for completion of Inaugural Election of Officers prior to registration. Also a meeting to develop priority issues for contribution to the DECC Green Deal secondary legislation process. Attendees include group members and invited representatives of a wide and welcome number of other All Party groups, for whom the Green Deal is a matter of related importance.

15 May – APPG for Learning Outside the Classroom – Inaugural meeting and election of Officers

15 May – All Party Parliamentary Water Group - Drought: The Water Sector and Shrinking Resources. Guest Speakers: Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman Environment Agency

16 May – APPG on Hill Farming – Following the cancellation of this week’s All Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming, due to the State Opening of Parliament, a short AGM will take place

16 May – APPG on Science and Technology in Agriculture – Case studies in UK agri-food innovation – challenges and opportunities

16 May – APPG on Environment – Discussion – Speak Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman of the Environment Agency

16 May – Mobile Homes APPG – The APPG will be welcoming Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP, to discuss the recently published Park Homes Consultation