EU Business in Parliament – Week of 16th January 2012

Monday 16^th January

*House of Lords – debate on the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (Grand Committee in the Moses Room, 5:30 PM)

Tuesday 17^th January

*Foreign/Commonwealth Oral Questions (from 2:30 PM) – Tory MPs Anne Marie Morris & Mark Spencer have an Oral Question to press the Foreign Secretary on what implications he sees current economic conditions in the EU having on the Foreign Office

**Tory referendum rebel MP Stuart Andrew also has an Oral Question on promoting

the Commonwealth – comparisons to resources spent on growth-lacking EU

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*Third Delegated Legislation Committee (4:30 PM, Committee Room 9) – Debating the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement

*EFRA Committee (12 Noon, Thatcher Room) – Reviewing the EU Commission’s much-maligned plans to ‘greenify’ the Common Agricultural Policy as part of its proposed reforms – UK Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary Caroline Spelman giving evidence

*House of Lords Oral Questions (from 2:30 PM) – Lord Barnett (of the ‘Barnett formula’) has an Oral Question to ask the Government for details of its contingency plans in the event of a Eurozone collapse

*Lords EU Select Committee (4 PM, Committee Room 3) – Europe Minister David Lidington being called to give evidence on the euro area crisis & the emerging EU/eurozone fiscal compact treaty

Wednesday 18^th January

*Prime Minister’s Questions (from 12 Noon) – Tory MP Charlotte Leslie will ask the PM what assessment has been made of the impact on the EU’s Working Time Directive on British healthcare/doctors’ training (a commitment to review this directive was in the Coalition Agreement)

Thursday 19^th January

*MPs debating potentially votable motion on a document relating to proposals for an EU network of integrated transport, energy & telecommunications infrastructures (from 12:30 PM)

*House of Lords Oral Questions (from 11 AM) – Lord Lexden (official historian of the Conservative Party) will ask the Government what plans it has made for monitoring the impact on the UK egg industry of a recently-implemented EU directive re: laying hens’ cages

*Lords debate in the name of pro-EU peer Lord Hannay on the EU Select Committee’s European Union Committee on The EU Internal Security Strategy report (from 3 PM)

Relevant new business announced on a daily basis (new Oral Questions, Ministerial Statements, etc.) will be updated as it becomes available at Coming up in Parliament 

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