Next week in Parliament

MONDAY - Commons: questions to transport ministers, Attorney General and Overseas Development Administration; Agricultural Tenancies Bill, Second Reading. Lords: Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, Report; Council for the Central Laboratory of the R esearch Councils, Order.

TUESDAY - Commons: Employment questions; Prime Minister's questions; debates opened by Labour on "threat to schools from the 1995/96 financial settlement" and "passenger services under rail privatisation". Lords: Pensions Bill, Committee; Central European Time Bill, Committee.

WEDNESDAY - Commons: House sits at 10am for backbench debates on sale of British Coal land, health effects of urban road congestion, Foyle fisheries commission, funding of Robin Hood railway line, Yorkshire Water's proposed charges to textile industry. Trade and Industry questions; debate on Welsh revenue support grant reports; Children (Northern Ireland) Orders. Lords: debates on inner-city problems and transport infrastructure policy; Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation Bill, Second Reading; Scottish rateable values orders.

THURSDAY - Commons: Home Office questions; Prime Minister's questions; debate on White Paper on future of the BBC. Lords: Environment Bill, Committee; Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations.

FRIDAY - Commons: backbench business, Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill, Second Reading; Natural Disasters (Scotland) Bill, Second Reading. Lords: not sitting.

BUSINESS TODAY - Commons: backbench business, Proceeds of Crime Bill, Second Reading; Road Traffic (New Drivers) Bill, Second Reading. Lords: not sitting.