Next Week in Parliament

THE main business in Parliament next week includes:

MONDAY - Commons: Questions to transport ministers, the Attorney General and the Overseas Development Administration. Sunday Trading Bill, second reading. European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (European Investment Fund) Order. Lords: Ministerial and Other Salaries Order. Debate on protection for Turkey's Kurdish minority.

TUESDAY - Commons: Employment questions. Prime Minister's Questions. The Budget. Lords: Debate on EC report on packaging and packaging waste. Debate on the British Standards Institution.

WEDNESDAY - Commons: Environment questions. Budget debate, second day. Lords: Debate opened by Opposition on motion of 'no confidence in the policies of the Government'. Debate on Network SouthEast's smoking ban.

THURSDAY - Commons: Northern Ireland questions. Prime Minister's Questions. Budget debate, third day. Lords: Debates on the biotechnology industry and organic farming.

FRIDAY - Commons: Christmas adjournment debate. Lords: Not sitting.