The House: Today's business

COMMONS MEETS at 9.30am for backbench debates on: Road traffic reductions; north-west regeneration ; predict and provide policy in housing projections; retail food sector; case of Major Eric Joyce. At 2.30pm: Welsh questions. At 3pm: questions to the Prime Minister, followed by debates initiated by Tories on decommissioning and release of prisoners in Northern Ireland; and tax.

Debate on Section 155 of the Finance Act 1998, opened by Stephen Byers.

Lords debates: The agriculture industry; implications of advances in medical science on the NHS; organophosphate sheep dips.