Summary Agenda Monday 12 December 2011

Summary Agenda

2.30 pm

Prayers.

Afterwards

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, including at 3.15 pm Topical Questions.

3.30 pm

Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).

Afterwards

General Debate: Immigration (may continue until 10.00 pm).

 

Statutory Instrument (Motion for approval) (without debate).

 

Business of the House (14 December) (No. 2) (Motion) (no debate after 10.00 pm).

 

Motions to change the membership of Select Committees: Political and Constitutional Reform; Culture, Media and Sport (no debate after 10.00 pm).

At the end of the sitting

Adjournment Debate: Pregnancy counselling (Gavin Shuker) (until 10.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

 

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:

Last date for tabling*

Date for answer

Departments etc

Tuesday 20 December

Tuesday 10 January

Health (T)

Tuesday 20 December

Wednesday 11 January

Scotland
Prime Minister

Tuesday 20 December

Thursday 12 January

Transport (T)
Women and Equalities

Tuesday 10 January
(First sitting day in January)

Monday 16 January
Wednesday 18 January

Education (T)
Wales

       * 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.

 

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Prepared 10th December 2011