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Summary Agenda Thursday 15 July 2010

Summary Agenda
10.30 am
Prayers.
Afterwards
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, 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
Presentation of Bill (without debate).
 
Finance Bill:   Committee (may continue until any hour).
 
Adjournment (Summer) (Motion) (without debate).
 
Adjournment (Conference recess) (Motion) (without debate).
 
Business of the House (Academies Bill [Lords]) (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
 
Business of the House (20 July) (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
 
Sittings of the House (27 July) (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
 
Delegated Legislation (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
 
Business of the House (Finance Bill) (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
At the end of the sitting
Adjournment Debate: Decent Homes programme in Hillingdon (John McDonnell) (until 6.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).
 
Sitting in Westminster Hall
 
General Debate:
2.30 pm
Debate on reform of the law of defamation (until 5.30 pm).
MEMORANDUM
SUMMER ADJOURNMENT 2010
       If the Motion in the name of Sir George Young on Adjournment (Summer) is agreed to by the House, the following arrangements for tabling Questions for oral and written answer will apply:
       Members wishing to table Questions in person may do so in the usual way in the Table Office until 6.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Tuesday 27 July. Thereafter, they may table oral and written Questions electronically or by post.
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER IN SEPTEMBER
       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 September:
Last date of tabling*
Date for answer
Departments etc.
Tuesday 31 August
Monday 6 September
Home Office
Tuesday 31 August
Tuesday 7 September
Health
Tuesday 31 August
Wednesday 8 September
Wales
Prime Minister
Monday 6 September
Thursday 9 September
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
       * The shuffles will be held at 12.30 pm. Questions which have already been tabled to the Secretary of State for Wales and the Prime Minister for answer on Wednesday 28 July and to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for answer on Thursday 29 July will be included in the shuffles for 8 and 9 September respectively, unless Members instruct the Table Office otherwise.
       For further details of last tabling days, see the Order of Oral Answers to Questions rota available from the Vote Office and on the Bulletin Board on the parliamentary intranet at
http://intral.parliament.uk/bb/bb.htm .
       The results of the shuffles on Tuesday 31 August will be published on Wednesday 1 September in a blue unofficial notice paper available from the Vote Office and on
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmordbk2/cmob2.htm.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
       The latest time for tabling a Question for written answer on a named day before the summer adjournment is 6.30 pm, or the rising of the House if earlier, on Thursday 22 July (for answer on Tuesday 27 July). For Questions tabled between this time and Tuesday 27 July, the earliest named day for a Question for written answer is Monday 6 September.
       After the House has risen for the summer adjournment, Questions tabled for ordinary written answer and for named day written answer up to 4.30 pm on Friday 3 September will be treated as having been tabled on that day. Such Questions for ordinary written answer will be for answer on Tuesday 7 September; such Questions for named day written answer will be for answer not earlier than Wednesday 8 September.
 

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