House of Commons
Session 2010-12
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Summary Agenda Thursday 8 December 2011
Summary Agenda
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10.30 am |
Prayers. |
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Afterwards |
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, including at 11.15 am Topical Questions. |
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11.30 am |
Urgent Questions (if any); Business Question to the Leader of the House; Ministerial Statements (if any). |
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Afterwards |
Opposition Day (half day): Public sector pensions (for up to three hours). |
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Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill (Money Resolution) (for up to 45 minutes). |
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At the end of the sitting |
Adjournment Debate: Extending the approved use of low-dose naltrexone (Nia Griffith) (until 6.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later). |
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Sitting in Westminster Hall |
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General Debate: |
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2.30 pm |
European Council (Member in charge: Mr Bernard Jenkin) (until 5.30 pm). |
MEMORANDUM
CHRISTMAS ADJOURNMENT 2011
Members wishing to table Questions in person may do so in the usual way in the Table Office until 7.30 pm or the rise of the House (whichever is earlier) on Tuesday 20 December. Thereafter, they may table oral and written questions electronically or by post.
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER
Under Standing Order No. 22(6), the Speaker has made the following arrangements for tabling Questions for oral answer in the first sitting week in January:
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Last date for tabling* |
Date for answer |
Departments etc |
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Tuesday 20 December |
Tuesday 10 January |
Health (T) |
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Tuesday 20 December |
Wednesday 11 January |
Scotland |
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Tuesday 20 December |
Thursday 12 January |
Transport (T) |
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Tuesday 10 January |
Monday 16 January |
Education (T) |
* The latest time for tabling is 12.30 pm on each of these days.
The results of the shuffles on 20 December will be published on 21 December. They will be available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmfutoral/futoral.pdf.
For further details of last tabling days for other departments and answering bodies, see the Order of Questions rota available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-table-office/order-of-oral-questions.pdf.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
The latest time for tabling a Question for written answer on a named day before the Christmas Adjournment is 6.30 pm or the rise of the House (whichever is earlier), on Thursday 15 December (for answer on Tuesday 20 December). For Questions tabled between this time and the rise of the House on Tuesday 20 December, the earliest named day for a Question for written answer is Tuesday 10 January.
After the House has adjourned on Tuesday 20 December, Questions tabled for ordinary written answer and for named day written answer up to 4.30 pm on Monday 9 January will be treated as having been tabled on 9 January. Questions for ordinary written answer will be for answer on Wednesday 11 January 2011, and Questions for named day written answer will be for answer not earlier than Thursday 12 January.