What's happening in Parliament this week? 
Today the main debate will see MPs polish off the detail of the Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill, which authorises a means-tested additional payment of £900, in three instalments, to people receiving Universal Credit.
On Tuesday, it’s Health and Social Care questions from 11:30. Anthony Browne MP will introduce a ten-minute rule bill that would require employers to pay contributions to a pension fund of the employee's choosing.
In the main debate, we will deal with Lords amendments to the Public Order Bill and also debate two sets of regulations designed to ensure that the payments the government has been making to cut energy bills for people who heat their homes with alternative fuels, such as kerosene heating oil or biomass, are fully passed on to consumers— this is particularly important to residents in rural parts of the constituency.
On Wednesday, PMQ’s is followed by an Estimates Day debate. One of the stranger rituals in the Commons, these debates are supposed to allow MPs to consider the estimates of public spending by government departments.
However, they have evolved into debates on select committee reports about specific issues, meaning they are not much of a mechanism for debating how public money is spent.
This time, we will focus on the spending of the Department for Education on childcare and early years. The key issue will probably be the cost of childcare, with the average price of full-time nursery care for a child aged under two now over £270 a week.
At the end of the debate, the House rubber-stamps all the estimates, approving future public spending. These are then translated into a Supply and Appropriations Bill, which will be passed through the Commons on Thursday.
