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By Tony Grew - 22nd October 2010
Nick Clegg will answer to MPs at DPM questions in the Commons next week.
On Monday the Labour party's culture, media and sport team will make their debuts in their new roles at the dispatch box.
Ivan Lewis was appointed as shadow secretary of state by Ed Miliband.
New MP Gloria de Piero will also be asking questions for the first time as a shadow junior minister.
There will also be questions to the leader of the House of Commons and the House of Commons Commission.
A committee of the whole House will then debate the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
On Monday afternoon the Treasury select committee will hold appointment hearings with the two economists who have been nominated to the Budget Responsibility Committee of the OBR.
On Tuesday the deputy prime minister has his own question time in the Commons.
There will also be questions to the Attorney General, Church Commissioners, Public Accounts Commission and Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission.
The main business is the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill - second reading.
The Lord Bishop of Birmingham will be introduced in the Lords, and Lord Grocott will ask about the cost implications of reducing the number of MPs and introducing 300 directly-elected members into the House of Lords.
The Public Accounts Committee will take evidence on financing PFI projects in the credit crisis.
The Treasury committee will discuss the government's proposed changes to financial regulation and the effect on the City with the CEO of the London Stock Exchange.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, will discuss the impact of the reductions comes in to talk to the Justice Committee.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee will be examining deepwater drilling off the Scottish coast and will take evidence from the Health and Safety Executive, UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, environmental experts and representatives from Total and Chevron.
And Vince Cable and David Willetts will give evidence on the CSR to the Business Innovation and Skills Committee.
On Wednesday Scotland questions precede PMQs, and the main Commons business is the second reading of the Postal Services Bill.
Madeleine Moon has secured an adjournment debate on the incidence of suicide and self-harm in a recession.
In the upper House Lord Butler of Brockwell will ask a question on installing a docking station for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme on the Parliamentary Estate.
Sir Muir Russell, who led a review into the disclosure of climate change emails from the University of East Anglia, and the vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Edward Acton, will give evidence to the Science and Technology Committee.
Getting young people into work is on the agenda for the DWP committee - it will ask third sector organisations and academics about the impact of the proposed cancellation of the future jobs fund.
The Lords Constitution committee will be asking academic Professor Vernon Bogdanor and Dr Ruth Fox, Director of the Parliament and Government Programme at the Hansard Society, about fixed-term Parliaments.
On Thursday Theresa May will be in the Commons answering questions in her role as equalities minister, shadowed by Yvette Cooper.
There will be a debate on the CSR and Sam Gyimah will lead an adjournment debate on European arrest warrants and extradition processes.
A wide-ranging debate on the internet and privacy will be held in Westminster Hall.
And in the Lords there will be a question from Lord Craig of Radley discrimination against members of armed forces in the provision of goods and services.
The UK's most senior civil servant, cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, will give evidence to the Public Administration Committee about the work of the cabinet office.
The comprehensive spending review is back on the agenda on Thursday morning when the Treasury Committee starts a two-week inquiry into the CSR.
The first witness is the former head of the civil service Andrew Turnbull. The chancellor will give evidence next week.
Dr Ruth Fox is back - this time before the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, alongside Dr Catherine Haddon from the Institute for Government and Professor Robert Hazell of UCL's Constitution Unit.
They will be giving their expert opinions on hung parliaments and coalitions.
Finally for Thursday, the Energy and Climate Change Committee will take evidence from the National Grid on how much energy and CO2 could be saved by extending British summer time.
Parliament is not sitting next Friday.
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