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Weekly Information Bulletin Review

The Information Office is currently reviewing all of its activities and publications. The Weekly Information Bulletin is also being reviewed. It would be extremely helpful if users of the bulletin could get in touch with the information office to indicate what parts of the Bulletin they find important, which parts they never use, and whether there are aspects of Parliamentary business that the Bulletin does not cover, that users would value.

It would also be useful if you could indicate whether a weekly hardcopy document would be more useful than an electronic service that was updated on a more regular basis.

Please email all comment to hcinfo@parliament.uk

The next Bulletin will be published on Saturday 6 February 2010

By-elections:

Following the resignation of the Member for Strangford, Iris Robinson, on 13 January 2010,

there will be a by-election. Details to be announced.

Following the death of the Member for North West Leicestershire, Mr David Taylor, on 26 December 2009,

there will be a by-election. Details to be announced.

Private Members' Bills:

The Private Members Bill Ballot took place at 10am on Thursday 26 November 2009

The Private Members Ballot Bills were presented to the House on Wednesday 16 December 2009

The Leader of the House has announced that the following Fridays are allocated for the consideration of Private Members' Bills during the 2009/10 session:

2010: 29 January; 5 and 26 February; 5 and 12 March; 23 and 30 April and 7 May.

House of Commons calendar for the 2009/2010 session:

The Leader of the House announced the following recess dates for the 2009/2010 session:

Christmas recess 2009

The House rose on Wednesday 16 December 2009 and returned on Tuesday 5 January 2010

Spring half term recess 2010

The House will rise on Wednesday 10 February 2010 and will return on Monday 22 February 2010

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