Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer can expect a bumpy ride in the House of Keys today as an increase in school bus fares comes under scrutiny.

A 10p increase per fare - from 30p to 40p per journey - for all those using the pre-paid Go School smart cards was announced earlier this month and came into effect on the same day.

Few parents will have forgotten, either, that it is a little over a year ago that the fare was increased from 25p to 30p per journey.

Numerous questions have been tabled on this, ranging from a call for a statement on the rise to whether any projections were made of the potential increase in car use as a result of the rise and whether there was an impact assessment made under the Equality Act.

Throw in written queries about how much money the Department of Infrastructure expects to bring in as a result of this increase and whether any alternatives to a price increase were considered and it’s fair to say that Mr Harmer will have had plenty of homework over the weekend.

The questioners are Lawrie Hooper (LibVannin, Ramsey), Bill Shimmins (Middle) and Rob Callister (Onchan). Mr Callister also has a number of questions for Mr Harmer about income generated from the heritage railways.

In addition, he has a queries about the patient transfer service and medical treatment off-island.

Mr Hooper, meanwhile, will start off the sitting with an attempt to pin down Treasury Minister Alfred Cannan for a timescale for when full plans for the financial restructuring of the Steam Packet will be brought to Tynwald.

Other issues to be covered in question time include public sector housing, various health services, public sector pensions and, again, school meals.

For good measure, the increase in the cost of a stamp is the subject of a question.

There’s even a query about how many people have visited the Programme for Government pages online on the government website. If it’s possible to give numbers that exclude visits by Tynwald members and journalists, don’t expect more than three.

There’s only one piece of legislative business for the MHKs. The Charities Registration and Regulation Bill pings its way back, after MLCs found a Keys amendment to exempt small charities from the rules had a bit of a pong to it - so they removed it.

MHKs will undoubtedly grumble about this. The question is how long they can fire it back at one another before finally deciding what to do?

If the Keys don’t accept what the Legislative Council has done, one option is to go to a conference of the branches, where delegates from each try to reach a shared path.

Should that fail, then we may have to consider what options remain. It could be arm-wrestling, it could be that one side pretends to be Theresa May and repeatedly comes back with exactly the same offer, or, my personal favourite, a recreation of the newsreader stand-off from the movie Anchorman.

The final option should be a shoo-in for the MLCs, considering the media background of some of their number.

Speaking of MLCs, they have three bills to consider at their sitting today. The Communications Bill is due a second reading but is unlikely to go to the detailed scrutiny of clauses today even if the second reading is approved.

Arriving for first readings are the mildly controversial Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Bill, with its proposal for national policy directives, and the not-as-interesting-as-it-makes-itself-out-to-be Council of Ministers (Amendment) Bill, which underwrites the independence of the judiciary and tells ministers to make sure they protect it.

A mini-egg for each MLC if they can come up with more amendments that put MHK noses out of joint.