Introduction

From the publication of MP’s allowances to the election of the new speaker today - it is indeed a busy time. Events of interest this week are listed below including first and foremost an updated list of all government ministers.

Update of Government Ministers

http://www.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/government_and_opposition/hmg.cfm

This Week in Parliament

Monday 22nd June

House of Commons, Main Chamber, 2.30pm Election of a New Speaker

Tuesday 23rd June

House of Commons,12.30pm - 1pm

Regulation of the insurance industry – Mr Tom Harris MP (Labour), Westminster Hall

House of Commons, 10.30am

Finance Bill Committee
Committee Room 10, Palace of Westminster

House of Commons, 9.45am, Treasury
Banking Crisis: Public Regulation
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Wednesday 24th June

House of Commons, 2.30pm Treasury Select Committee
(i) May 2009 Inflation Report (ii) Banking Crisis: Regulation and Supervision
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

House of Commons, 3.30pm Public Accounts

Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals in England

House of Lords, Grand Committee, Orders and Regulations

Dunfermline Building Society Compensation Scheme, Resolution Fund and Third Party Compensation Order 2009 Amendments to Law (Resolution of Dunfermline Building Society) (No. 2) Order 2009 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2009 – Lord Davies of Oldham

House of Lords Select Committee, 4.30pm EU Sub-Committee E: Law and Institutions

Recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters
Committee Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 25th June

House of Commons, 9am Finance Bill Committee
To consider the Bill, & 1.00pm
Committee Room 10, Palace of Westminster

House of Lords, Main Chamber, Debate, Role of the NHS - Lord Walton of Detchant

Last Weeks Debates

Tuesday 16th June

Banks: Closures

David Evenett MP (Conservative) asked the Treasury how many bank branches have been closed in the last six months by banks in which the Government has purchased a shareholding in the last two years http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090616/text/90616w0022.htm#column_243W

Wednesday 17th June

Bradford and Bingley

Alan Meale MP (Labour) asked the Treasury on what date Ministers in his Department asked departmental officials to draft proposals to take the Bradford and Bingley Building Society into public ownership

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090617/text/90617w0010.htm#column_323W

Friday 19th June

Child Trust Fund: Milton Keynes

Mark Lancaster MP (Conservative) the Treasury how many child trust vouchers have been issued to residents in Milton Keynes North East constituency
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090619/text/90619w0010.htm

The Group is committed to supporting mutuality in building societies and financial mutuals. The Group has an active programme and in the last two years has had frontbenchers from the three main political parties address its members. Kitty Ussher MP, formerly Economic Secretary to the Treasury; Mark Hoban MP, Shadow Minister for the Treasury and the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Shadow Chancellor, have all appeared before the Group. The Financial Services Authority also comes to speak to the Group regularly.

The Group has undertaken two Short Inquiries. In 2004, the Group carried out a successful Short Inquiry into the contribution mutual businesses make to the economy and society. In 2005, the Group looked at how well consumers had been well served by demutualisation. As a result, a further Inquiry into these questions was undertaken and in March 2006, the Group published its findings in a report entitled ‘Windfalls or Shortfalls? The true cost of demutualisation’.

Officers

Chairman: Adrian Bailey MP (Labour/Co-op, West Bromwich West)

Vice Chairmen:
Sir John Butterfill MP (Conservative, Bournemouth West)
Sir Nicholas Winterton MP (Conservative, Macclesfield)
Baroness Maddock (Liberal Democrat)
Rt Hon Lord Naseby (Conservative)
Joan Walley MP (Labour, Stoke-on-Trent North)

Hon. Treasurer: Kelvin Hopkins MP (Labour, Luton North)
Hon. Secretary: Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP (Labour/Co-op, Portsmouth North)

Matthew Ball is Administrative Secretary to the Group. m.ball@mutuo.co.uk

The All Party Group on Employee Ownership was formed in June 2007 in response to growing interest in the role of a sector in which businesses substantially or majority owned by their own employees have achieved combined turnover of at least £20-25 billion annually.

The All Party Group consists of 80 Members from both Houses of Parliament. The purpose of the group is to examine the contribution of the co-owned business sector to the UK economy.

In 2008, the Group launched a Short Inquiry into the sector’s performance and contribution to the UK economy, given the implications of the sector’s scale and growth for policy makers; businesses who might wish to adopt this ownership model, finance it or advise on it; the field of business education and research; and employee owned companies themselves. In May 2008, the Group published its findings in a report entitled ‘Share Value – How employee ownership is changing the face of business’.

Officers

Chair: Vacant

Vice Chairmen:
Mark Field MP (Conservative, Cities of London and Westminster)
David Howarth MP (Liberal Democrat, Cambridge)
Treasurer: Lord Best (Crossbencher)
Secretary: Jeremy Wright MP (Conservative, Rugby and Kenilworth)

Matthew Ball is Administrative Secretary to the Group. m.ball@mutuo.co.uk