Draft Financial Services Bill select committee report published

Home Affairs Select Committee report on the riots released - says police failed to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge of quelling rioting, while TV and social media reports fuelled public perception that police were not in control of some areas of cities.

Caroline Spelman attends the EU Environment Council in Brussels

9.30 Nick Clegg delivers the Demos annual lecture, giving his vision for a fair and open society and 'the political philosophy animating the Liberal Democrats in government. Westminster, London

11.00 Joint Committee on Human Rights report published on Legislative Scrutiny: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

After 12.00 Occupy London and Bank of Ideas court hearings

14.00 Foreign secretary William Hague and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle hold a press conference after a bilateral meeting

15.30 George Osborne responds to the Vickers Report on banking in the House of Commons

16.15 Crime and security minister James Brokenshire appears in front of the science and technology committee discussing the Forensic Science Service

19.00 Boris Johnson hosts the Mayor's Christmas Carol Service at Southwark Cathedral