Parliamentary business for the week beginning Monday 1 April 2019
Monday 1 April 2019
| Time | Business |
|---|---|
| 2.30pm | Oral questions Link between anti-establishment politics and vaccine hesitancy - Lord Faulkner of Worcester |
| Oral questions Ensuring all providers of short-term lets are identified by HMRC and are paying an appropriate amount of tax - Baroness Gardner of Parkes | |
| Oral questions Immediate steps to tackle the issue of rough sleeping - Lord Roberts of Llandudno | |
| Oral questions The analysis by the Office for National Statistics, published on 25 March, that nearly 1.5 million jobs may be at risk of being lost to automation and that those most at risk are female workers - Lord Fox | |
| Debate Report from the European Union Committee 'Brexit: the customs challenge' - Baroness Verma | |
| Debate Report from the International Relations Committee 'Yemen: giving peace a chance' - Lord Howell of Guildford | |
| Debate Report from the European Union Committee 'Brexit: the Erasmus and Horizon programmes' - Lord Jay of Ewelme | |
| 9.30pm | Estimated rising time |
Tuesday 2 April 2019
| Time | Business |
|---|---|
| 2.30pm | Oral questions Forthcoming review of tobacco harm reduction - Viscount Ridley |
| Oral questions Encouraging the use of precision agriculture techniques to reduce carbon emissions - Baroness Redfern | |
| Oral questions Reforming entry criteria for joining police forces in England and Wales - Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | |
| Oral questions Deployment of Russian troops in Venezuela - Lord Lee of Trafford | |
| Legislation Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill - Third reading - Viscount Trenchard | |
| Orders and regulations Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2019 - Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | |
| Debate That this House takes note of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of NATO and its continuing role in the United Kingdom’s defence and security - Earl Howe | |
| 6.30pm | Estimated rising time |
Wednesday 3 April 2019
| Time | Business |
|---|---|
| 3pm | Oral questions Ensuring the public have access to cash throughout the UK - Lord Naseby |
| Oral questions Implementing the recommendations of the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights 'Immigration Detention' - Baroness Whitaker | |
| Oral questions Implementing the recommendations of The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship - Lord Harrison | |
| Oral questions Ensuring freedom of expression following the temporary detention by Border Force of a man at Gatwick airport for displaying an anti-Brexit badge - Baroness Ludford | |
| Statement Windrush compensation scheme - Baroness Williams of Trafford | |
| Orders and regulations Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations
2019 - Lord Gardiner of Kimble | |
| Orders and regulations Electricity Capacity (No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Lord Henley | |
| Orders and regulations Flags (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to approve - Lord Duncan of Springbank | |
| Orders and regulations Flags (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to regret - Lord Bruce of Bennachie | |
| 6.30pm | Estimated rising time |
Thursday 4 April 2019
| Time | Business |
|---|---|
| 11am | Oral questions Ensuring long-term viability of upland farming - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch |
| Oral questions Reducing the number of households in fuel poverty - Baroness Donaghy | |
| Oral questions Current assessment of freedom of religion in China - The Lord Bishop of St Albans | |
| Oral questions Decision by some teachers to take a 20 per cent pay cut in order to prevent staff redundancies - Lord Watson of Invergowrie | |
| Motion To move, further to the resolution of the House of 28 January that Her Majesty’s Government should provide sufficient time for this House to ensure the timely passage of legislation necessary to implement any deal or proposition that has commanded the support of the majority of the House of Commons, that:
(1) Standing Order 46 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with to allow the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill to be taken through all its stages this day; and
(2) Standing Order 39 (Order of Business) be dispensed with to enable that Bill to be considered after the motions on Economic Affairs Committee reports in the name of Lord Forsyth of Drumlean. - Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | |
| Motion As an amendment to the above motion, to leave out from “move” to the end and to insert “that the Standing Orders of the House relating to public business shall apply to all proceedings on the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.5) Bill - Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, to leave out from “move” to the end nd to insert “notwithstanding the non-binding resolution of the House of 28 January that Her Majesty’s Government should provide sufficient ime for this House to ensure the timely passage of legislation necessary to implement any deal or proposition that has commanded the support of the majority of the House of Commons, that this House does not consider it is in keeping with the traditions and procedures of the House of Lords, its proper scrutinising role or its function as a safeguard of the constitution to apply unprecedented procedures to this Bill, and therefore declines to dispense with normal Standing Orders - Lord True | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, to leave out from “move” to the end and to insert “notes that the Prime Minister has already indicated her ntention to ask for a delay in the date for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union and considers it unnecessary, as well as undesirable and unprecedented, to apply exceptional procedures to the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.5 Bill) and therefore regrets the proposal by Her Majesty’s Opposition to do so - Baroness Noakes | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, to leave out from first “that” to the end and to insert “the attempt to accelerate procedures on the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.5) Bill is not in accordance with normal practice in either House
of Parliament and the provisions of Standing Order 46 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) should be dispensed with only to the extent necessary to allow the First and Second Readings of the Bill to be taken on one day, the Committee stage on a subsequent day, and the Report and Third Reading to be taken on the same day subsequently - Viscount Ridley | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, to leave out from “Commons,” to the end and to insert “notes that more than one day is required
for this House to have sufficient time to scrutinise the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.5) Bill
received from the House of Commons that has had less than one day of consideration in that House, and had not been received by this House by the end of business on 3 April - Lord Robathan | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, at the end to insert “but in view of the exceptional constitutional implications of the proposal put forward, regrettably without agreement in the Usual Channels, for its exceptional consideration in the House of Lords, the House shall not resolve itself into a Committee on the bill until at least 24 hours after a report from the Constitution Committee on the bill has been laid before the House - Lord Hamilton of Epsom | |
| Motion To move, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, at the end to insert “but the House shall not resolve itself into a Committee on the bill until at least 24 hours after a report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee on the bill has been laid before the House.” - Lord Blencathra | |
| Legislation European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill - second reading - Lord Rooker | |
| Statement Final implementation of Sharia Penal Code in Brunei Darussalam - Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon |
Friday 5 April 2019
The House of Lords was in recess. The House next sat on Saturday 06 April 2019.
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