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Session 2010-11
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Summary Agenda Thursday 16 December 2010

Summary Agenda
10.30 am
Prayers.
Afterwards
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, 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 (14th allotted day): (1) Park Homes (Motion); (2) Work of the Committee of Public Accounts (Motion) (may continue until 6.00 pm).
 
Sittings of the House (Motion) (no debate after 6.00 pm).
At the end of the sitting
Adjournment Debate: Government support to football and football governance (John Mann) (until 6.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

 
Sitting in Westminster Hall
 
General Debate:
2.30 pm
Drugs policy (Member in charge: Mr Bob Ainsworth) (until 5.30 pm).

MEMORANDUM
CHRISTMAS 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 21 December. Thereafter, they may table questions for oral and written answer electronically or by post.
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER
       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 January:
Last date of tabling*
Date for answer
Departments etc.
Tuesday 21 December
Monday 10 January
Work and Pensions
Tuesday 21 December
Tuesday 11 January
Justice
Tuesday 21 December
Wednesday 12 January
International DevelopmentPrime Minister
Monday 10 January(First sitting day in January)
Thursday 13 January
Business, Innovation and Skills
       * The shuffles will be held at 12.30 pm.
       The results of the shuffles on 21 December will be published on 22 December in a blue unofficial notice paper available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmordbk2/cmob2.htm.
       For further details of last tabling days, see the Order of Questions rota available from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
       The latest time for tabling a Question for written answer on a named day before the Christmas Adjournment is 6.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Thursday 16 December (for answer on Tuesday 21 December). For Questions tabled between this time and the rising of the House on Tuesday 21 December, the earliest named day for a Question for written answer is Monday 10 January.
       After the House has risen, Questions tabled for ordinary written answer and for named day written answer up to 4.30 pm on Friday 7 January will be treated as having been tabled on that day. Such Questions for ordinary written answer will be for answer on Tuesday 11 January 2011; such Questions for named day written answer will be for answer not earlier than Wednesday
12 January 2011.

 

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