House of Commons
Session 2010-12
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Summary Agenda Thursday 15 March 2012
Summary Agenda
10.30 am |
Prayers. |
Afterwards |
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, including at 11.15 am Topical Questions. |
11.30 am |
Urgent Questions (if any); Business Question to the Leader of the House; Ministerial Statements (if any). |
Afterwards |
Backbench Business: (1) Charging for Access to Parliament (Motion) ; (2) Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (Motion) (may continue until 6.00 pm). |
At the end of the sitting |
Adjournment Debate: Effect of reductions to legal aid on legal aid providers (Karl Turner) (until 6.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later). |
Sitting in Westminster Hall |
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General Debate: |
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2.30 pm |
Effectiveness of UK Trade and Investment (Members in charge: Laura Sandys and Barry Gardiner) (until 5.30 pm). |
MEMORANDUM
EASTER ADJOURNMENT 2012
Members wishing to table questions in person may do so in the usual way in the Table Office until 10.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Tuesday 27 March. Thereafter they may table questions for oral and written answer electronically or by post. Questions for written answer received before 4.30 pm on Friday 13 April will be treated as if tabled on that day.
TABLING ARRANGEMENTS FOR QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER
Under Standing Order No. 22(6), the Speaker has made the following arrangements for tabling Questions for oral answer when the House returns:
Last date of tabling* |
Date for answer |
Departments etc. |
Tuesday 27 March |
Monday 16 April |
Education (T) |
Tuesday 27 March |
Tuesday 17 April |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (T) |
Tuesday 27 March |
Wednesday 18 April |
Scotland |
Monday 16 April (First sitting day after the Adjournment) |
Thursday 19 April |
Transport (T) |
* The latest time for tabling is 12.30 pm on each of these days.
The results of the shuffles on 27 March will be published on 28 March. 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 Easter Adjournment is 6.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Thursday 22 March (for answer on Tuesday 27 March). For Questions tabled after this time and before the rise of the House on Tuesday 27 March, the earliest named day for a Question for written answer is Monday 16 April.
After the House has adjourned, Questions tabled for ordinary written answer and for named day written answer up to 4.30 pm on Friday 13 April will be treated as having been tabled on that day. Questions for ordinary written answer will be for answer on Tuesday 17 April, and Questions for named day written answer will be for answer not earlier than Wednesday 18 April.