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Order of Business Tuesday 16 May 2006

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Order of Business

At 2.30 p.m.

  Prayers

Afterwards

Notes:

indicates a question for oral answer.

[R] indicates that the Member has declared a relevant interest.

Questions for oral answer not reached receive a written answer

Supplementary questions will also be asked. Other Ministers may also answer.

Private Business

Note: Private Business is not debated at this time, and may not be proceeded with if opposed.

Consideration of Bill Ordered to Lie upon the Table
                    1. Leicester City Council
                    2. Liverpool City Council
                    3. Maidstone Borough Council

Afterwards

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

1

Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West): If she will make a statement on waiting times for cancer treatment.

(70832)

2

Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): If she will make a statement on the National Programme for Information Technology.

(70833)

3

Mr George Mudie (Leeds East): If she will make a statement on the salaries of NHS nurses.

(70834)

4

James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): What assessment she has made of the impact of financial deficits on budgets for mental health services for 2006-07; and if she will make a statement.

(70835)

5

Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): When she next expects to meet representatives of primary care trusts and hospital trusts from East Anglia to discuss funding issues.

(70836)

6

Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): If she will make a statement on the progress of the Sunsmart campaign.

(70837)

7

Mr David Amess (Southend West): What estimate she has made of the year-end gross NHS deficit for the 2005-06 financial year.

(70838)

8

Mr Richard Benyon (Newbury): Which mental health trusts are making cuts as a consequence of NHS deficits.

(70839)

9

Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): How many general practitioners there were in the NHS in (a) 1997 and (b) 2005; and if she will make a statement.

(70840)

10

Philip Davies (Shipley): If she will make a statement on the future of patient and public involvement in health.

(70841)

11

Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): What steps her Department is taking to increase access to child mental health services.

(70842)

12

Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): If she will make a statement on Government policy on the prescription of Herceptin for early stage breast cancer.

(70843)

13

Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): What plans she has to improve treatment for sufferers of myalgic encephalopathy.

(70844)

14

Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): If she will make a statement on the plans for a new acute hospital in West Cumbria.

(70845)

15

Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): If she will increase the payment oculists receive for carrying out eye tests to the level paid in Scotland.

(70846)

16

Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): If she will make a statement on access to dental treatment for patients with severe learning difficulties in (a) Scarborough and Whitby and (b) England.

(70847)

17

Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury): How many frontline staff there were in the NHS in (a) 1997 and (b) 2005; and if she will make a statement.

(70848)

18

Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): When the Broomfield Hospital private finance initiative scheme will be approved.

(70849)

19

Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): What assessment she has made of the impact of (a) diet and (b) alcohol consumption on life expectancy for women.

(70850)

20

Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): If she will make a statement on the financial position of the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority.

(70851)

21

Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): What her Department's policy is on the provision of and funding for spares and replacements for communication aids.

(70852)

22

David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): What assessment she has made of the impact of the private finance initiative on progress in delivering the Pathway project for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

(70853)

23

Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): What support her Department gives to young people with myalgic encephalomyelitis.

(70854)

24

Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch): What assistance is provided for childcare costs for student nurses.

(70856)

Main Business

†	indicates Government Business

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LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY REFORM BILL: As amended in the Standing Committee, to be further considered. [2nd Day].

[Until 10.00 p.m.]

For Amendments, see separate Paper.

Third Reading will also be taken.

Relevant documents:

First Special Report from the Regulatory Reform Committee, Session 2005-06, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 878.

Second Special Report from the Regulatory Reform Committee, Session 2005-06, Governments Response to the First Special Report on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 1004.

First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2005-06, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 894.

Seventeenth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Session 2005-06, Legislative Scrutiny: Eighth Progress Report, HC 1062.

Third Report from the Public Administration Select Committee, Session 2005-06, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 1033.

Proceedings on Consideration shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 9.00 p.m. and proceedings on Third Reading shall, so far as not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 10.00 p.m. (Order of 15th May).

†

THE SPEAKER’S ABSENCE

[No debate after 10.00 p.m.]

Mr Jack Straw

That the Speaker have leave of absence on Thursday 15th June to attend the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark Her Majesty’s eightieth birthday.

If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 10.00 p.m.

COMMITTEES

STANDING COMMITTEES
1	Standing Committee A	10.30 a.m.	Room 14 (public)
		4.30 p.m.	(public)
Further to consider the Finance (No. 2) Bill (except Clauses Nos. 13 to 15, 26, 61, 91 and 106 and Schedule 14, and new Clauses relating to the effect of provisions of the Bill on section 18 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984).
2	European Standing Committee	4.30 p.m.	Room 12 (public)
To consider EU Document No. 6174/04 relating to Services in the Internal Market.
3	Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation	4.30 p.m.	Room 9 (public)
To consider Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2006 (S.I., 2006, No. 225)

SELECT COMMITTEES
4	Culture, Media and Sport	9.45 a.m.	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
		10.30 a.m.	(public)
Subject: New media and the creative industries.
Witnesses: Creative Commons, National Consumer Council, Music Managers Forum, and British Music Rights; Alliance Against IP Theft, Creators’ Rights Alliance, Phonographic Performance Ltd, and Design and Artists Copyright Society (at 11.30 a.m.).
5	Public Administration	9.45 a.m.	Room 15 (private)
		10.00 a.m.	(public)
Subject: Ethics and Standards.
Witnesses: Sir Gus O’Donnell KCB, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service; Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE, Chairman, Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE, and Mrs Angela Sarkis CBE, House of Lords Appointments Commission (at 11.00 a.m.).
6	Treasury	9.45 a.m.	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House (private)
		10.00 a.m.	(public)
Subject: Financial Inclusion.
Witnesses: John Tiner, Chief Executive, Clive Briault, Managing Director, Retail Markets, and Vernon Everitt, Director, Retail Themes Division, FSA.
7	Crossrail Bill	10.00 a.m.	Room 5 (public)
8	Home Affairs	10.00 a.m.	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
		10.15 a.m.	(public)
Subject: Immigration Control.
Witnesses: Association of Labour Providers and Transport and General Workers’ Union; Department for Work and Pensions and Immigration and Nationality Directorate (at 11.00 a.m.); Immigration and Nationality Directorate (at 11.40 a.m.).
9	Regulatory Reform	10.00 a.m.	Room 19 (private)
10	International Development	10.15 a.m.	Room 6 (private)
		10.30 a.m.	(public)
Subject: Private Sector Development.
Witnesses: Andrew Hollas, Head, Africa Markets, and PricewaterhouseCoopers; Stirling Smith, Co-operative College (at 11.30 a.m.).
11	Trade and Industry	10.30 a.m.	The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private)
		11.00 a.m.	(public)
Subject: Nuclear new build: issues to be addressed.
Witnesses: UK Energy Research Centre and Institute of Physics; Nuclear Industry Association and British Energy (at 12 noon).
12	Crossrail Bill	2.30 p.m.	Room 5 (public)
13	Administration: Parliamentary Visitor Centre Sub-committee	3.30 p.m.	Room 16 (private)
(Concurrent meeting with the House of Lords Information Committee).
14	Constitutional Affairs	3.45 p.m.	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House (private)
		4.00 p.m.	(public)
Subject: Party funding.
Witnesses: Sir Hayden Phillips GCB; Sam Younger, Chairman, and Peter Wardle, Chief Executive, The Electoral Commission (at 4.45 p.m.); Representatives of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties at local level (at 5.30 p.m.).
15	Trade and Industry	4.00 p.m.	The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (private)
		4.30 p.m.	(public)
Subject: Sources of gas imports in future.
Witness: Professor Jonathan Stern.
16	Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions	4.20 p.m.	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House (private)
		4.40 p.m.	(public)
Subject: Planning Gain Supplement.
Witnesses: Home Builders’ Federation; Environment Agency (at 5.10 p.m.).
17	Crossrail Bill	6.00 p.m.	Room 5 (public)

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice.]

Written Ministerial Statements to be made today

1	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Government Indemnity Scheme.

2	Secretary of State for Defence: Healthcare of personnel serving on operations in Iraq.

3	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pesticides Safety Directorate—Business Plan and Targets.

4	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Veterinary Medicines Directorate—Business Plan and Targets.

5	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Central Science Laboratory—Business Plan and Targets.

6	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Veterinary Laboratories Agency—Business Plan and Targets.

7	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Marine Fisheries Agency—Business Plan and Targets.

8	Secretary of State for Health: Human Tissue Authority’s Codes of Practice.

9	Secretary of State for International Development: The Climate Change Adaption in Africa Research and Development Programme.

10	Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: Energy statement of need for additional gas supply infrastructure.

11	Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: Winter energy supply.

12	Secretary of State for Transport: Progress of the London Underground and National Railways (LUNR) passenger screening trials.

13	Secretary of State for Transport: Publication of Department for Transport Annual Report 2006.

At 3.30 p.m.	Urgent Questions (if any)
	Ministerial Statements (if any)