Parliamentary business for the week beginning Monday 19 February 2018

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Monday 19 February 2018
No business was announced for this day.
Tuesday 20 February 2018
TimeBusiness
10amScottish Affairs
Subject: Immigration and Scotland
Witness(es): Safia Clough, Fife Migrants Forum Maciej Dokurno, Fife Migrants Forum Margarita Jayinali, Fife Migrants Forum Jonnie Hall, Director of Policy and Member Services, NFU Scotland Lorraine Cook, Policy Manager, Migration, Population and Diversity Team, COSLA Carroll Buxton, Regional Development Director, Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Location: Other
10.15amEnvironmental Audit
Subject: Green Finance
Witness(es): Lord Turner of Ecchinswell Sarah Breeden, Executive Director, Bank of England Stephen Haddrill, Chief Executive, The Financial Reporting Council David Harris, Group Head of Sustainable Business at London Stock Exchange Group David Geale, Director of Policy, The Financial Conduct Authority Anthony Raymond, Acting Executive Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice and General Counsel, The Pensions Regulator
Location: Room 6, Palace of Westminster
10.30amInternational Development
Subject: Sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector
Witness(es): Mark Goldring, Chief Executive Officer Caroline Thomson, Chair of Trustees, Oxfam GB Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive Officer Steve Reeves, Director of Child Safeguarding, Save the Children UK Matthew Rycroft CBE, Permanent Secretary Gerard Howe, Head of Inclusive Societies Beverley Warmington, Director of CHASE, Department for International Development
Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
11amDigital, Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Pre-Appointment hearing for Chair of Charity Commission for England and Wales
Witness(es): Baroness Stowell of Beeston, Government’s preferred candidate for Chair of the Charity Commission
Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
11.30amDefence
Subject: Armed Forces Covenant Annual Report 2017
Witness(es): Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence Helen Helliwell, Head of Service Personnel Support, Ministry of Defence
Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
2.30pmHome Affairs
Subject: Hate crime and its violent consequences
Witness(es): The Rt Hon. the Baroness Warsi Professor Chris Frost, Chair of the Ethics Council, National Union of Journalists Nazir Afzal OBE, Member of the Complaints Committee Anne Lapping, Board Member Rt Hon Sir Alan Moses, Chairman, Independent Press Standards Organisation Jonathan Heawood, Chief Executive Officer, IMPRESS
Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster
2.30pmTreasury
Subject: Appointment of Charles Randell as Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority
Witness(es): Charles Randell, appointed Chair, Financial Conduct Authority
Location: The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
3.15pmScience and Technology
Subject: Evidence-based early years intervention
Witness(es): Professor Mark Bellis, Bangor University and Public Health Wales Professor Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton Professor Eamon McCrory, University College London Professor Sue White, University of Sheffield Dr Marc Bush, Chief Policy Adviser, YoungMinds Kate Stanley, Director of Strategy, Policy and Evidence, NSPCC Associate Professor David McDaid, London School of Economics and Political Science Dr Leon Feinstein, Director of Evidence, Office of the Children's Commissioner
Location: Room 16, Palace of Westminster
4pmBackbench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witness(es): Members of Parliament
Location: Room 20, Palace of Westminster
4.15pmForeign Affairs
Subject: The Commonwealth Summit
Witness(es): Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for the Commonwealth, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Tim Hitchens, Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Summit Richard Oppenheim, UK Commonwealth Envoy
Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
4.15pmWelsh Affairs
Subject: Brexit: Agriculture, Trade and the repatriation of powers
Witness(es): Jill Rutter, Programme Director, Institute for Government Joe Owen, Senior Researcher, Institute for Government Professor James Foreman-Peck, Head of the Economics Section, Cardiff Business School Professor Patrick Minford, Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff Business School
Location: Room 6, Palace of Westminster
4.45pmTransport
Subject: Airports National Policy Statement
Witness(es): Sophie Dekkers, UK Director, EasyJet Dale Keller, Chief Executive, BAR UK Craig Kreeger, Chief Executive, Virgin Atlantic Simon McNamara, Director of Communications, Flybe Willie Walsh, Chief Executive, IAG Andrew Haines, Chief Executive, Civil Aviation Authority
Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 21 February 2018
TimeBusiness
9.15amExiting the European Union
Subject: The progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal
Witness(es): Emanuel Adam, Director of Policy and Trade, British American Business Dr Peter Holmes, Reader in Economics, University of Sussex Sam Lowe, Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform Dr Pınar Artıran, WTO Chair Holder, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University
Location: The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
9.30amHousing, Communities and Local Government
Subject: Private rented sector
Witness(es): Andy Fisher, Head of Housing, Health and Communities, Boston Borough Council Councillor Robert Lawton, Portfolio Holder for Housing, Bournemouth Borough Council Councillor Clare Salier, Cabinet Member for Housing, London Borough of Wandsworth Melanie Rees, Head of Policy, Chartered Institute of Housing Tamara Sandoul, Policy Manager, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Alison Farrar, Lead Officer, Chartered Trading Standards Institute
Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster
9.30amHousing, Communities and Local Government
Subject: Draft Tenants' Fees Bill
Witness(es): Andy Fisher, Head of Housing, Health and Communities, Boston Borough Council Councillor Robert Lawton, Portfolio Holder for Housing, Bournemouth Borough Council Councillor Clare Salier, Cabinet Member for Housing, London Borough of Wandsworth Melanie Rees, Head of Policy, Chartered Institute of Housing Tamara Sandoul, Policy Manager, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Alison Farrar, Lead Officer, Chartered Trading Standards Institute
Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster
9.30amWork and Pensions
Subject: Collective defined contribution pension schemes
Witness(es): Nathan Long, Senior Pensions Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown Sandeep Maudgil, Partner, Slaughter and May David Pitt-Watson, Executive Fellow, London Business School Hilary Salt, Senior Actuary, First Actuarial Jon Millidge, Group HR Director, Royal Mail PLC Ray Ellis, National Officer, Communication Workers Union
Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
9.30amEducation
Subject: Value for money in higher education
Witness(es): Professor Edward Peck, Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham Trent University Peter Horrocks CBE, Vice-Chancellor, Open University Professor Dame Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool Professor Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford Alice Barnard, Chief Executive, Edge Foundation Julian Gravatt, Deputy Chief Executive, Association of Colleges Alistair Jarvis, Chief Executive, Universities UK
Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
9.30amNorthern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Devolution and democracy in Northern Ireland – dealing with the deficit
Witness(es): Paul Braithwaite, Programme Leader, Building Change Trust Jamie Bryson, Unionist Voice Policy Studies Derek McCallan, Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Local Government Association Ruth Taillon, Director, Centre for Cross-Border Studies Colum Eastwood MLA, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Claire Sugden MLA
Location: The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
9.50amInternational Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact
Subject: ICAI's review on DFID's approach to its supplier market
Witness(es): Dr Alison Evans, Lead Commissioner Chris Shapcott, Team Leader, Independent Commission for Aid Impact Nick Ford, Head of Procurement and Commercial Department Vel Gnanendran, Director of Finance and Delivery, Department for International Development
Location: Room 16, Palace of Westminster
10amBusiness, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Subject: Work of the Department
Witness(es): Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Location: Room 6, Palace of Westminster
10amWomen and Equalities
Subject: Tackling inequalities faced by the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
Witness(es): Professor Margaret Greenfields, Professor of Social Policy and Community Engagement, Buckinghamshire New University Yvonne MacNamara, Chief Executive Officer, The Traveller Movement Councillor Malcolm Buckley, Essex County Council Councillor Ian Dalgarno, Central Bedfordshire Council Kealey Sly, Leicestershire Gypsy and Traveller Equalities
Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
2pmEnvironmental Audit
Subject: Green Finance
Witness(es): Rt Hon Claire Perry MP, Minister for Energy and Clean Growth, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy John Glen MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Fiona Walker, Deputy Director in Private Pensions and Head of Automatic Enrolment and Defined Contribution, Department for Work and Pensions Catherine Bremner, Transformation Director, BEIS
Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
2pmDefence
Subject: Departmental priorites
Witness(es): Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE MP, Secretary of State for Defence Lieutenant General Mark Poffley OBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff for Military Capability, Ministry of Defence Peter Watkins CBE, Director General Strategy and International, Ministry of Defence
Location: The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
2.15pmEuropean Scrutiny
Subject: EU Withdrawal
Witness(es): Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP, Minister for Immigration
Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
2.15pmTreasury
Subject: Bank of England Inflation Reports
Witness(es): Dr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy Andy Haldane, Chief Economist and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis & Statistics Silvana Tenreyro, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
2.30pmPublic Accounts
Subject: Reducing Modern Slavery
Witness(es): Kevin Hyland, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Lynne Owens, Director General, National Crime Agency Beth Sizeland, Head of Safeguarding, Home Office
Location: The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
2.45pmProcedure
Subject: Exiting the European Union: scrutiny of delegated legislation
Witness(es): Dr John Benger, Clerk Assistant Paul Evans, Clerk of Committees, House of Commons
Location: Room 15, Palace of Westminster
3.30pmPublic Accounts
Subject: Emergency Services Network: progress review
Witness(es): Stephen Webb, Senior Responsible Owner, Emergency Services Network Joanna Davinson, Chief Digital, Data, and Technology Officer, Home Office
Location: The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
4.45pmCommittees on Arms Export Controls
Subject: UK arms exports during 2016
Witness(es): Oliver Feeley-Sprague, Programme Director for Military, Security and Police at Amnesty International UK Martin Butcher, Policy Adviser, Arms Campaign, Oxfam Elizabeth Kirkham, Small Arms and Transfer Controls Adviser, Saferworld
Location: Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Thursday 22 February 2018
TimeBusiness
9.15amWork and Pensions
Subject: Carillion
Witness(es): Lesley Titcomb, Chief Executive, The Pensions Regulator Nicola Parish, Executive Director of Frontline Regulation, The Pensions Regulator Mike Birch, Director of Case Management,The Pensions Regulator Michael Jones, Internal Audit Partner, Deloitte Michelle Hinchliffe, Head of Audit, KPMG Peter Meehan, Partner, Audit, KPMG
Location: Other
9.15amBusiness, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Subject: Carillion
Witness(es): Lesley Titcomb, Chief Executive, The Pensions Regulator Nicola Parish, Executive Director of Frontline Regulation, The Pensions Regulator Mike Birch, Director of Case Management, The Pensions Regulator Michael Jones, Internal Audit Partner, Deloitte Michelle Hinchliffe, Head of Audit, KPMG Peter Meehan, Partner, Audit, KPMG
Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
10.30amEuropean Scrutiny
Subject: EU Withdrawal
Witness(es): Robin Walker MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Exiting the European Union Sir Tim Barrow KCMG LVO MBE - Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union
Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Friday 23 February 2018
No business was announced for this day.


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