Thursday 26th January 2012 | 17:55

House of Commons Business

Commons Chamber

11.30am: International development questions (topical questions at 11.53am).

12 noon: Prime minister's questions.

Ten-minute-rule motion: Airport Security (People with Disabilities) Bill (Tom Blenkinsop, Lab, Middlesbrough and East Cleveland).

Main business

Programme motion on the Welfare Reform Bill.

Consideration of Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill.

Motion to approve the draft Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Inspections etc.) Regulations 2011.

Motion to approve the draft City of Manchester (Mayoral Referendum) Order 2012.

Motion to approve the draft City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Mayoral Referendum) Order 2012.

Motion to approve the draft City of Sheffield (Mayoral Referendum) Order 2012.

Motion to approve the draft Local Digital Television Programme Services Order 2012.

Motion to take note of a European Union document relating to reform of the common agricultural policy.

Motion on an appointment to the Electoral Commission.

Presentation of public petitions on School transport (Darlington and Sedgefield) (Phil Wilson, Lab, Sedgefield); school transport (Darlington and Sedgefield) (Jenny Chapman, Lab, Darlington); graves in cemeteries in Walsall (Valerie Vaz, Lab, Walsall South); potential closure of Peacocks stores (Huw Irranca-Davies, Lab, Ogmore).

Adjournment debate on Manchester’s bid for the green investment bank (Tony Lloyd, Lab, Manchester Central).

Westminster Hall

9.30am - 11am: Work capability assessments (Tom Greatrex, Lab/Co-op, Rutherglen and Hamilton West).

11am - 11.30am: Potential for micro combined heat and power (Alan Whitehead, Lab, Southampton Test).

2.30pm - 4pm: Community sports facilities (Charlotte Leslie, Con, Bristol North West).

4pm - 4.30pm: Role of soft power in UK foreign policy (John Glen, Con, Salisbury).

4.30pm - 5pm: Unemployment in Halifax (Linda Riordan, Lab, Halifax).

Commons Committees

Science and Technology Committee (9.15am, Thatcher room).
Subjects: (i) Risk perception and energy infrastructure; (ii) Science and international development.
Witnesses: (i) Environment Agency, Health and Safety Executive, and Office of Nuclear Regulation; (ii) Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Graham Furniss, British Academy, Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, and Dr Beth Taylor, Communications and External Relations Director, Institute of Physics (at 10.15am).

Education Committee (9.30am, Wilson room).
Subject: Chief regulator pre-appointment hearing, Ofqual.
Witness: Glenys Stacey, chief regulator of qualifications and examinations.

Environmental Audit Committee (2.15pm Thatcher room).
Subject: Green economy.
Witnesses: Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Chloe Smith MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury.

European Scrutiny Committee (2.30pm, room 19).
Subject: Draft agreement on a unified patent court and draft statute
Witnesses: Baroness Wilcox, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and officials.

International Development Committee (2.30pm, room 5).
Subject: South Sudan.
Witnesses: Stephen O’Brien MP, minister of state, Mark Mallalieu, Head, South Sudan, and Michael Ryder, UK special representative to Sudan, Department for International Development.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (3.45pm, room 15).
Subject: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA).
Witnesses: Catherine Brown, CEO, AHVLA, Rt Hon James Paice MP, minister of state, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Nigel Gibbens, chief veterinary officer.

Procedure Committee (3.05pm, room 20).
Subject: Sittings of the House and the Parliamentary Calendar
Witnesses: Angela Eagle MP, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons; Rt Hon Sir George Young MP, Leader of the House of Commons (at 3.45 p.m.)

Public Accounts Committee (3.15pm, room 16).
Subject: Reorganising central government bodies.
Witnesses: Ian Watmore, chief operating officer, Efficiency and Reform Group, Sue Gray, senior responsible owner, Public Bodies Reform Programme, Cabinet Office, Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB, permanent secretary, Ministry of Justice, and Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee (2.30pm, room 9).
Subject: To consider the Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 4) 2011 (S.R. (N.I.), 2011, No. 422) and the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2970).