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Session 2010-11
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Summary Agenda Tuesday 8 February 2011

Summary Agenda
2.30 pm
Prayers.
Afterwards
Oral Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, including at 3.15 pm Topical Questions.
3.30 pm
Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any).
Afterwards
BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)—Motion for leave to introduce a Bill under the Ten minute rule (Robert Halfon) (for up to 20 minutes).
 
Education Bill: Second Reading (may continue until 10.00 pm).
 
—followed by Programme Motion (without separate debate).
 
—followed by Money Resolution (without separate debate).
 
Statutory Instruments (Motions for approval) (without debate).
 
European Union Documents (Motions) (without debate).
At the end of the sitting
Presentation of Public Petition (without debate).
 
Adjournment Debate: Effect on the higher education sector of changes to the Tier 4 immigration system (Mr Richard Bacon) (until 10.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

 
Sitting in Westminster Hall
 
General Debates:
9.30 am
Future funding of independent debt advice (Yvonne Fovargue).
11.00 am
Economic regeneration in Wolverhampton and the Black Country (Paul Uppal).
12.30 pm
Proposal for a National Defence Medal (Mr Denis MacShane).
1.00 pm
Care for the elderly in Kent (Charlie Elphicke).
1.30 pm
Effects of changes to housing benefit in Scotland (Greg McClymont) (until 2.00 pm).

MEMORANDA
FEBRUARY ADJOURNMENT 2011
       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 Thursday 17 February. Thereafter, they may table questions for oral and written answer electronically or by post. Questions for written answer received before 4.30 pm on Friday 25 February will be treated as if tabled on that day.
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.
Last date for tabling*
Date for answer
Departments etc.
Thursday 17 February
Monday 28 February
Communities and Local Government
Thursday 17 February
Tuesday 1 March
Deputy Prime Minister; Attorney General; Church Commissioners, Public Accounts Commission, Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission
Thursday 17 February
Wednesday 2 March
Cabinet Office; Prime Minister
Monday 28 February
(first sitting day after adjournment)
Thursday 3 March
Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport; Leader of the House and House of Commons Commission
       * The deadline for submission of Questions will be 12.30 pm.
       The results of the shuffles on 17 February will be published on 18 February 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 ON A NAMED DAY
       The latest time for tabling a Question for written answer on a named day before the February Adjournment is 10.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Monday 14 February, for answer on Thursday 17 February.
       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 tabling
For answer at earliest on
6.30 pm (or the rising of the House, whichever is earlier) on Thursday 17 February
Monday 28 February
4.30 pm on Friday 25 February
Wednesday 2 March

WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE
[Sitting at Westminster on Thursday 10 March at 9.00 am]
       Notices of Oral Questions for Thursday 10 March may be submitted to the Table Office. Questions shall be addressed to, and answered by, Ministers in the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Notices for inclusion in the shuffle should be submitted by 12.30 pm on Thursday 17 February.

 

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