Forthcoming Business of the House of Lords
14 - 18 January 2008

Monday 14 January (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Lord Jenkin of Roding to ask Her Majesty's Government what practical exercises have been carried out in the United Kingdom as part of the preparations to handle an outbreak of pandemic flu. Baroness Gardner of Parkes to ask Her Majesty's Government what are the completion rates for apprenticeships and advanced apprenticeships. Baroness Miller of Hendon to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the study by the charity Citizens Advice, Set Up to Fail, which suggested that many aspiring home owners have been mis-sold unsuitable and costly home loans that are doomed to fail from the start. Lord Dearing to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to increase the resources committed to the rehabilitation of life prisoners who have served more than their tariff

Legislation - Climate Change Bill [HL] (Committee stage, day 5)

Legislation - Children and Young Persons Bill [HL] (Grand Committee, day 2, Moses Room, 3.30pm)

Question for short debate - on plans to reform the Social Fund (L. Kirkwood of Kirkhope)

Tuesday 15 January (11.00am)

Oral Questions - Lord Clement-Jones to ask Her Majesty's Government what are their targets relating to the number of people participating in sport and physical activities. Lord Howarth of Newport to ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to conserve and find appropriate contemporary uses for historic buildings in the public sector that become redundant. Lord Lloyd of Berwick to ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to respond to the Law Commission's report on murder, published on 28 November 2006

Legislation - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (Report stage, day 1)

Legislation - Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL] (Grand Committee, day 4, Moses Room, 3.30pm)

Question for short debate - on the European Committee Report European Wine: A Better Deal for All

(L. Sewel)

Wednesday 16 January (3.00pm)

Oral Questions - Lord Hoyle to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Japan about their hunting of whales. Lord Sheldon to ask Her Majesty's Government when the Civil Service Bill announced by the Prime Minister in July 2007 will be introduced. Lord Elton to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial and legal liabilities that would arise from ratification of Protocol V to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

Legislation - Local Transport Bill [HL] (Report stage)

Legislation - Children and Young Persons Bill [HL] (Grand Committee, day 3, Moses Room, 3.45pm)

Thursday 17 January (11.00am)

Oral Questions - Viscount Falkland to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider placing boxing within the physical education curriculum in schools. Baroness Sharp of Guildford to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that business will provide the necessary opportunities for work experience for students opting to study the new specialist diploma courses. Lord Dykes to ask Her Majesty's Government when they next intend to discuss the Galileo Project with representatives from the new Slovenian Presidency of the European Union Council of Ministers

Delegated Legislation - Home Information Pack (Amendment) Regulations 2007- motion to annul

Friday 18 January (10.00am)

Legislation - Alcohol Labelling Bill [HL] (Second reading)

Legislation - Kidney Transplant Bill [HL] (Second reading)

Provisional Future Business of the House of Lords
21 - 24 January 2008

Monday 21 January (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Lord Fowler to ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to help refugees from the conflict in Iraq. Lord Walton of Detchant to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will promote, through the National Blood Service, clinical trials of the Prion Capture (P-CAPT) Filter to assess the value of this device in the prevention of transfusion-induced Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (vCJD). Lord James of Blackheath to ask Her Majesty's Government what value of loans they have extended under the new Integration Loans for Refugees; and what steps they are intending to take with regard to any arrears or defaulting payments. Lord Campbell of Alloway to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reconsider the allocations for three years to the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development rising from £5.4 to £7.9 billion to alleviate concern as to the availability of requisite funding for the armed forces and counter-terrorism

Legislation - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL] (Report stage, day 2)

Legislation - Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] (Grand Committee, day 2, Moses Room, 3.30pm)

Tuesday 22 January (2.30pm)

Oral Questions - Lord Roberts of Conwy to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to change the relationship between the Bank of England and HM Treasury. Lord Steel of Aikwood to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will take immediate steps to provide a statutory basis for the House of Lords Appointments Commission that would empower it to take decisions on the size, balance and composition of the House. Lord Marlesford to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to raise the duty-free personal travel allowance from £145

Legislation - Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (Second reading)

Wednesday 23 January (3.00pm)

Oral Questions - Lady Saltoun of Abernethy to ask Her Majesty's Government what are the names of the organisations or individuals to whom licences have been issued during the last 18 months by Natural England to release grey squirrels into the wild; and whether the locations of the releases were on Forestry Commission or privately owned land. Lord Vinson to ask Her Majesty's Government, in light of their ambition to reconnect Parliament with the public, whether they will make it a condition of broadcasting licence agreements that broadcasting organisations should state briefly in their main news bulletins the forthcoming day's business in both Houses of Parliament. Lord Giddens to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the likelihood of achieving their target to halve child poverty by 2010 compared with 1999

Legislation - Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] (Grand Committee, day 3, Moses Room, 3.45pm)

Thursday 24 January (11.00am)

Oral Questions - Earl of Mar and Kellie to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will conduct future negotiations over Scottish sovereignty with a community development ethos. Lord Berkeley to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will extend the Tier Two Boatmaster's Licence to include up to three miles offshore for small and local passenger vessels. Lord Pearson of Rannoch to ask Her Majesty's Government how many tonnes of dead fish are thrown back into the sea each year under the European Union's common fisheries policy; and what prospect they see of ending this practice

Debates - on the position in Iraq and the lessons to be drawn; and to move for papers (L. Fowler); on the role of non-governmental organisations delivering services on behalf of the Government; and to move for papers (L. Forsyth of Drumlean)

Question for short debate - on the steps being taken to contribute to the Vienna Forum on the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (B. Cox); on the absence of a coroners bill in the legislative programme (B. Finlay of Llandaff); on the assessment of the development of the Central American Integration System (V. Montgomery of Alamein)