House of Lords Business |

Thursday 17th November 2011 | 13:31

House of Lords Business

Lords Chamber

2.30pm: Oral questions, to ask the government:

What action they are taking to exploit further the United Kingdom’s natural resources of tidal power (Lord Renton of Mount Harry, Con);

What are their priorities for the outcome of the Durban climate change conference starting on 28 November, and what steps they have taken to ensure maximum possible global ownership of the agenda (Lord Judd, Lab);

Whether they continue to support European integration (Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UKIP).

Topical question - how many patients currently waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment will benefit from the recent directive on waiting times; and what are the most common conditions from which they suffer (Lord Beecham, Lab).

Main business

Committee stage (day 7 of 14) of the Health and Social Care Bill.

Question for short debate on the UK’s role in UN specialised agencies (Lord Hunt of Chesterton, Lab) (dinner break business, one hour).

Grand Committee

3.30pm: Consideration of the draft London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Advertising and Trading) (England) Regulations 2011.

Consideration of the draft Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011.

Consideration of the draft Water Supply (Amendment to the Threshold Requirement) Regulations 2011.

Consideration of the draft Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2011.

Lords and Joint Committees

Joint Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (9.05am, room 1).
Subject: Draft House of Lords Reform Bill.
Witnesses: Members of the Australian Senate.

Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade (EU Sub-committee A) (10.45am, room 3).
Subject: Financial transaction tax.
Witnesses: Richard Woolhouse, head of tax and fiscal policy, CBI, Owen Tudor, head of European Union and International Relations, TUC, and Duncan Weldon, senior policy officer, TUC.

Communications Committee (3.30pm).
Subject: The future of investigative journalism.
Witnesses: Andrew Gilligan, London editor, the Sunday Telegraph, Phil Hall, former editor, News of the World, chairman, PHA Media; (via video) Sir Harold Evans, editor at large, and Stephen J. Alder, editor in chief, Thomson Reuters.

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