Session 2009-10
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Summary Agenda Wednesday 24 March 2010
Summary Agenda
11.30 am
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Prayers.
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Afterwards
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Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
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12 noon
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Oral Questions to the Prime Minister.
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12.30 pm
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Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).
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Afterwards
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Financial Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (followed by debate on the Budget Resolutions) (may continue until 7.00 pm).
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At the end of the sitting
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Adjournment Debate: Operation of the British High Commission in South Africa (Miss Ann Widdecombe) (until 7.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).
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Sitting in Westminster Hall
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General Debates:
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9.30 am
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Presbyterian Mutual Society (Dr William McCrea).
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11.00 am
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Rail services in West Kent (Greg Clark).
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The sitting will be suspended from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm.
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2.30 pm
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Land in Zimbabwe (Hugh Bayley [R]).
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4.00 pm
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Manchester cross-city bus travel (Graham Stringer).
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4.30 pm
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Preparations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (Mr Andrew Pelling) (until 5.00 pm).
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MEMORANDUM
EASTER ADJOURNMENT 2010
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 30 March. Thereafter, they may table oral and written questions electronically
or by post. Questions received before 4.30 pm on Thursday 1 April will be treated as if tabled on that day; questions received
after that time will be treated as having been tabled on Tuesday 6 April.
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:
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Last date for tabling*
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Date for answer
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Departments etc.
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Thursday 25 March
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Wednesday 7 April
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Scotland
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Monday 29 March
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Tuesday 6 April
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Tuesday 30 March
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Wednesday 7 April
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Prime Minister
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Tuesday 30 March
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Thursday 8 April
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Energy and Climate Change
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Tuesday 6 April (first sitting day after the Adjournment)
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Monday 12 April
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Culture, Media and SportOlympics
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* The shuffles will be held at 12.30 pm
For further details of last tabling days, see the Order of Questions rota (available from the Vote Office and on the Bulletin Board on the parliamentary intranet at http://intranet.parliament.uk/bulletin-board).
The results of the shuffles on 30 March will be published on 31 March in a blue unofficial notice paper available from the Vote Office and on http://pubs1.tso.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmordbk2/cmob2.htm.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER ON A NAMED DAY
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 25 March, for answer on Tuesday 30 March.
The following dates have been specified for the minimum notice for tabling questions for written answer on a named day after
the adjournment:
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Time for tabling
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For answer at earliest on
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10.30 pm or the rising of the House, whichever is earlier, on Monday 29 March
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Tuesday 6 April
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10.30 pm or the rising of the House, whichever is earlier, on Tuesday 30 March
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Wednesday 7 April
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4.30 pm on Thursday 1 April
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Thursday 8 April
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Continue to Order of Business
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