Monday 23rd January 2012 | 09:42

House of Lords Business

Lords Chamber

2.30pm: Oral questions, to ask the government:

What is their current estimate of the timetable for withdrawal of United Kingdom forces from Afghanistan (Lord Lee of Trafford, Lib Dem);

What criteria they took into account when deciding to increase the rate of Air Passenger Duty, in particular in respect of flights to the Caribbean (Baroness Benjamin, Lib Dem);

Whether they considered including in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Autumn Statement funding for transport infrastructure projects in North East England in addition to the proposed upgrade of the Tyne and Wear Metro; and, in particular, whether they considered funding improvements to the A1 trunk road (Lord Walton of Detchant, CB);

What safeguards are contained in the National Planning Policy Framework to protect cultural institutions (Baroness Bakewell, Lab).

Main business

Motion on the report stage order of consideration of the Protection of Freedoms Bill.

Motion on the committee of the whole House consideration of the Scotland Bill.

Motion to approve the draft Jobseeker’s Allowance (Jobseeking and Work for Your Benefit) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2012.

Motion to approve the draft Special Educational Needs (Direct Payments) (Pilot Scheme) Order 2012.

Report stage (day 5 of 6) of the Welfare Reform Bill.

Question for short debate to ask the government what are their plans for the future of the United Kingdom civil aviation industry (Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, Lab).

Grand Committee

3.30pm: Consideration of the draft Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Inspections etc) Regulations 2011.

Consideration of the draft Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 2011.

Consideration of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2011 and the Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 4) 2011.

Lords and Joint Committees

Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade (EU Sub-Committee A) (10.45am, room TBC).
Subject: Financial Transaction Tax.
Witnesses: Antonio Corbi, ISDA Risk and Research, Peter Sime, head of research, ISDA, Nigel Fleming, managing director and Joanna Cound, managing director, Blackrock.

Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions (2.15pm, Boothroyd room).
Subject: Privacy and injunctions.
Witnesses: Sly Bailey, chief executive, and Marcus Partington, group legal director, Trinity Mirror, and Richard Wallace, editor, Daily Mirror; Martin Clarke, publisher, Mail Online, Edward Roussel, digital editor, Telegraph Media Group and Phillip Webster, editor, Times Online (at 3:15pm).

European Union Committee (4.00pm, room TBC).
Subject: Euro area crisis and the fiscal compact treaty.
Witnesses: (at 4.10pm) Professor Paul Craig, St John’s College, Oxford, specialist in constitutional and administrative, and European Union law; and (at 5.00pm) Giuliano Amato, Italian senator, former prime minister of Italy, and vice president of the Commission on the Future of Europe, 2001-03.

Draft House of Lords Reform Bill Joint Committee (4.30pm, room 4A).
Subject: To consider the bill.
Witnesses: David Beamish, clerk of the Parliaments; Graham Allen MP (at 5.15pm); Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House, and Jacqy Sharpe, clerk of Legislation (at 6.15pm).