Parking in Douglas is set to come under the spotlight in the House of Keys tomorrow (Tuesday).

Amid concerns over lost spaces on the seafront during the prom works - and ultimately after them as well - Clare Bettison (Douglas East) has tabled questions for Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer.

She wants to know when the outcome of the detailed parking study for the capital, outlining future requirements, will be published.

She will also ask why a further passing place for the horse trams is due to be placed within 300 metres of another one for the single track section after the promenade improvements.

Details of the alternative parking arrangements for those affected by the promenade works are also sought.

There may be plenty of town centre retailers, not to mention office workers, who will be awaiting Mr Harmer’s replies with interest.

Ralph Peake (Douglas North) will ask Mr Harmer to make a statement on the planned sale of Flybe. It comes amid reports that the airline’s largest shareholder is attempting to block the cut-price sale of the airline to a consortium including Virgin Atlantic and the Stobart Group.

Also in question time Julie Edge (Onchan) wants to know what the weighting process is for Manx companies during a government procurement process.

It could well be that this is a follow-up to last week’s question about who has got the Christmas panto gig. If so, perhaps asking this question first might have avoided some of the disdain that particular question was greeted with.

We don’t know the answer about who has the panto gig, by the way. (Insert another pantomime pun here.)

In the written questions, Jason Moorhouse (Arbory, Castletown and Malew) wants a breakdown of which charitable and non-government projects have received financial support from various government departments over the past five years.

The endoscopy service also returns to the spotlight, along with environmental food inspections and the value of electricity from the energy from waste plant.

Fresh from his question time grilling, Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer will introduce the second reading of the Highways (Amendment) Bill, when the principle is debated. The bill enables the DoI to ’divert or extinguish’ a highway for the purposes of a development taking place, in accordance a planning approval. It appears to be clarifying a situation where a road could be closed on the basis of just an application.

The Dormant Assets Bill is due for detailed scrutiny at the clauses stage. A number of amendments have been tabled.

At the second reading concerns were raised over the new law, which would allow ’dormant’ bank savings to be given to charitable causes.

Some MHKs were worried about the potential for the law’s scope to be extended at a later date, while others wanted assurances about how hard a bank would try to contact an account-holder whose assets were ruled ’dormant’. A number of amendments have been tabled.

There is no sitting of the Legislative Council today, as there is no legislation for it to consider.