What's happening

TBC Grant Shapps gives a speech on housing

9.00 Alex Salmond speaks at the National Economic Forum in Edinburgh

9.30 Chris Huhne appears a the Forum for the Future in London

9.30 Charles Hendry gives evidence to the Scottish economy, energy and tourism committee and announces the 27th round of offshore oil and gas licensing for the North Sea

10.00 Mayor of London Boris Johnson is joined by fire minister Bob Neill and London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson at the official opening of a new, state of the art fire control centre for the London 2012 Olympics

10.15 Nick Clegg appears before Lords constitution committee

10.30 Northern Irish justice minister David Ford hosts meeting with Irish justice minister Alan Shatter and Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill to discuss sectarianism, border policing, police and legal aid reform, prisons and assets seizure. Press conference at 13.00

12.00 Prime minister's questions. The Commons will later consider the Lords amendments to the Welfare Bill

12.00 David Miliband addresses the Cambridge Union

14.15 Caroline Spelman gives evidence on the green economy to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee

15.00 The Lords continues with the commitee stage of the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill

18.30 David Lammy speaks at the LSE on the causes of the 2011 riots

18.30 Theresa May addresses the Prince’s Trust women’s leadership group

What's been said

If we'd banned bonuses, Fred Goodwin could have kept his knighthoods says Simon Jenkins in The Guardian

The Health Bill is a catastrophic mess. But the reforms at its heart are still urgently needed, argues Andrew Haldenby in the Daily Telegraph

Elected mayors will take us further in the right direction, says Daniel Finkelstein in The Times

Obama has nothing to fear from the Republican Party's 'freak show' says Matthew Norman in The Independent