The week in Westminster: December 5th - December 9th

The week in Westminster: December 5th – December 9th

The week in Westminster: December 5th – December 9th

The economy pervades this week's topics for debate in parliament.

Chancellor George Osborne will be in the Commons chamber on Tuesday for Treasury questions before a more general debate takes place later in the afternoon.

He'll then be facing a more forensic grilling from MPs on the Treasury select committee on Wednesday.

We can expect a lot of interest on Monday in a backbench debate on UK extradition arrangements – with the case of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon in everyone's minds.

This week also sees some more odd subjects up for debate – including those pesky cyclists who use pavements rather than the road, who will be raised in the Lords on Thursday.

COMMONS

Monday

Questions – communities and local government
Backbench business – motion relating to ministerial statements, motion relating to UK extradition statements
Adjournment debate – Bonn conference and women in Afghanistan

Tuesday

Questions – Treasury
Ten minute rule motion – registration of commercial lobbying interests
Debate – the economy
Adjournment debate – disposal of short-life homes in Lambeth

Wednesday

Questions – international development
PMQs
Motion – appointment of chairman of National Audit Office
Motion – membership of the Speaker's Committee on the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
Motion – to approve a European document relating to European Sales Law
Adjournment debate – experimentation on animals

Thursday

Questions – business, innovation and skills
Business statement – leader of the House
Opposition day debate from SNP/Plaid Cymru
Adjournment debate – extending use of low-dose Naltrexone

LORDS

Monday

Questions – Nazi and Communist-stolen property in Poland, Palestinian statehood, HM Young Offender Institution Feltham, aerospace industry
Legislation – Remembrance Sunday (closure of shops) bill
Legislation – devolution (time) bill
Legislation – health and social care bill
Short debate – impact of digital technologies on the mind

Tuesday

Questions – phone-hacking, repatriation of powers from the EU, oral cancer detection
Legislation – protection of freedoms bill
Short debate – environmental and economic impact of feeding food waste to livestock

Wednesday

Questions – corporate governance, immigration, local authority cuts and the arts
Legislation – health and social care bill
Short debate – ensuring that the quality of teaching of school-age sport increases the levels of participation in sport in later life

Thursday

Questions – child language difficulties, Kosovo and Serbia, cyclists on pavements
Debate – development and retention of manufacturing industry in the UK
Debate – support available for persons with neurological conditions
Short debate – securing the future of the Citizens Advice Bureau in the 'big society'

Friday

Debate – Christians in the Middle East

PICK OF THE COMMITTEES

Monday

14:15 – Max Mosley, Steve Coogan, Zac Goldsmith and Hugh Grant, before joint committee on privacy and injunctions

16:30 – Prime minister's national security adviser Sir Peter Ricketts, before national security strategy joint committee

Wednesday

14:15 – chancellor George Osborne, before Treasury committee, on: autumn statement

14:30 – defence secretary Philip Hammond, before defence committee

Thursday

10:00 – former parliamentarian Tony Benn, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: Mapping the path to codifying—or not codifying—the UK's constitution