Future Business Part B: Backbench business

Consists of items of business selected for debate under Standing Order No. 14 by the Backbench Business Committee on the days indicated. (For details of items to be taken in the Chamber in the next two weeks see part A above.)

For Business for the period ending on Thursday 2 February 2012 see Part A of this paper. For Remaining Orders and Notices see Part C of this paper. For Business to be taken in Westminster Hall see Part D of this paper. For Other future business see Part E of this paper. For Business to be taken in European Committees see Part F of this paper. For Notices of Public Petitions see Part G of this paper. For Notices of written ministerial statements see Part H of this paper.


Thursday 26 January in the Chamber

diamondGeneral debate on Progress on defence reform and the Strategic Defence and Security Review (Member in charge: Mr James Arbuthnot).

The Committee received a representation from the Defence Committee that there should be a debate on defence issues and that this would be of considerable cross-party interest.

Thursday 2 February in Westminster Hall

diamondDebate on Network Rail (Members in charge: Mrs Anne Main, Dr Thérèse Coffey and Ben Gummer).

The Committee heard there was backbench support for a debate on the current state of Network Rail.

(Backbench days allocated to date: 49 (of which 15 in Westminster Hall); days taken: 35; days remaining to be allocated in the Chamber: 0).


Prepared 24th January 2012