Questions concerned progress towards acceding to the UN Watercourse Convention; predictions of the prison population for 2010; initiatives to stimulate energy saving; and recent developments in the Iranian nuclear programme.

The Climate Change Bill was considered in Committee. A statement on the Children's Plan was repeated by Lord Adonis. In the dinner break there was a debate on the imposition and parole of sentences of imprisonment for public protection (ss225 & 226 Criminal Justice Act 2003). The House adjourned at 10.01pm - and the second day of the Committee stage of the Climate Change Bill is due to be taken on Monday 17th December.

In the Moses Room day two of the Grand Committee on the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill was taken. Consideration of Amendment 21 began at 3.30pm and Amendment 33 had been considered when the siting was adjourned sine die at 7.34pm.