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Summary Agenda 20 December 2004

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2.30 p.m.Prayers.
AfterwardsOral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
3.30 p.m.Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).
AfterwardsSir Michael John Austin Cummins (Motion ) (may continue until 10.00 p.m.).
 Identity Cards Bill: Second Reading (may continue until 10.00 p.m.).
 —      followed by Programme Motion (without debate).
 —      followed by Money Resolution (without debate).
 —      followed by Ways and Means Resolution (without debate).
 Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Bill: Second Reading (without debate).
 —      followed by Ways and Means Resolution (without debate).
 Statutory Instrument (Motion for approval) (without debate).
 European Union Document (Motion) (without debate).
 Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills (change in membership) (no debate after 10.00 p.m.).
At the end of the sittingAdjournment debate: Government policy on hydrogen technology (Mr Alistair Carmichael) (until 10.30 p.m. or for half an hour, whichever is later).

MEMORANDUM
CHRISTMAS ADJOURNMENT 2004

Members wishing to table questions in person may do so in the usual way in the Table Office until 7.30 p.m. or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Tuesday 21st December. Thereafter, they may table oral and written questions electronically or by post.

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 in January:
Last date of tabling*Date for answer
Tuesday 21st DecemberMonday 10th JanuaryDefence
Tuesday 21st DecemberTuesday 11th JanuaryScotland
Advocate General
Constitutional Affairs
Leader of the House and
  House of Commons
  Commission
Tuesday 21st DecemberWednesday 12th JanuaryDeputy Prime Minister
Prime Minister
Monday 10th January
(First sitting day in January)
Thursday 13th JanuaryEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs
For further details of last tabling days for oral questions, see the Order of Questions rota (available from the Vote Office and on the Bulletin Board on the parliamentary intranet at http://intra1.parliament.uk/bb/bb.htm).
The results of the shuffles on 21st December will be published on 22nd December in a blue unofficial notice paper available from the Vote Office and on http://www.pubs1.tso.
*The shuffle will be held at 12.30 p.m.

QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER ON A NAMED DAY

The latest time for tabling a question for written answer on a named day before the Christmas Adjournment is 6.30 p.m. or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Thursday 16th December for answer on Tuesday 21st December.
The following dates have been specified for the minimum notice for tabling named day written questions for answer on the first three days after the Adjournment:
Time for tablingFor answer on
4.30 p.m. on Wednesday 5th JanuaryMonday 10th and Tuesday 11th January
4.30 p.m. on Friday 7th JanuaryWednesday 12th January.

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