While AMs in Cardiff have another week off, it’s back to business at Holyrood and Westminster. So what will MSPs and MPs be debating this week?
Holyrood
Mental health is starting to really matter on the political agenda and although the Scottish Government is lagging behind Norman Lamb and Nick Clegg in terms of improvements to service, at least the Parliament will be debating a Scottish Government motion on mental health on Tuesday.
There will also be debates on boosting the economy, active travel and Winter Festivals.
Westminster
Nick Clegg takes to the despatch box for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions on Tuesday.
The controversial Counter Terrorism and Security Bill should have cleared its Commons stages by Wednesday after two days of debate. A Labour amendment to give more control to the courts rather than the Home Secretary may attract cross party support.
Martin Horwood’s private member’s bill on pavement parking is due to be debated on Friday but it’s pretty far down the list. It strikes me that freeing up our pavements for pedestrians to walk on is a fairly reasonable thing that everyone should agree on.
Norman Baker has an adjournment debate on health services in Lewes on Friday.
In Westminster Hall, John Pugh has a debate on economic growth and coastal towns on Tuesday afternoon.
The Lords will be debating reducing the number of peers who attend each day and the House of Lords expulsion and suspension bill. They will also be looking at the Pensions Schemes and Serious Crime Bills. Early years intervention to increase social mobility and maternal mortality will also be discussed.
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I know that thanks to our glorious leader we now only have one MEP but surely the European Parliament deserves a mention, even if it is only to say it is doing nothing this week.
Good point, well made. I’ve not included it before because their plenary sessions are only once a month in Strasbourg, but will look at it in the future.
Should we not count London as an assembly of sorts?
I agree that the EU Parliament and directives from the Commission should be covered. According to Nick Clegg most of our legislation now comes from Brussels.
Our own token MPs have nothing to do until after the election.
We might have got more than one MEP if we had drawn attention during the European election campaign to the specific achievements of our MEPs in shaping EU law and policy and how this differed from what MEPs of other parties did. Not only because we would have been articulating our specifically LIBERAL vision of the EU, but also because it would have demonstrated that there are political, ideological differences in law and policy made at the EU level in the same way as there are in national goverment policy. Instead the party participated in the media conspiracy of silence in what the European Parliament does and let Farage frame the debate in terms of something over which MEPs have no influence.