Next week in Parliament

The main business in Parliament next week includes:

MONDAY - Commons: Questions to Welsh ministers and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Debate on motion to approve coal White Paper. Lords: Housing and Urban Development Bill, Committee Stage; Pneumoconiosis (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations; Scottish Legal Aid regulations.

TUESDAY - Commons: Education questions; Questions to the Prime Minister; European Communities (Amendment) Bill, Committee Stage. Lords: Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill, Committee Stage; Video Recordings Bill, Third Reading.

WEDNESDAY - Commons: Scottish questions; Legal Aid regulations; Debate on EC report on Common Agricultural Policy. Lords: Debates on coal review, and threat to independent television companies from European interests.

THURSDAY - Commons: Treasury questions; Questions to the Prime Minister; Easter adjournment debate; All- night session of backbench debates. Lords: Leeds Supertram Bill, Second Reading; London Local Authorities Bill, Third Reading; Debate on civil rights of Albanians in Kosovo.

FRIDAY - Commons: Short backbench debates. Lords: Not sitting.