Backbench Business Committee weekly meeting 18 October 2016

18 October 2016

Watch MPs put forward a case to the Backbench Business Committee for House time to debate their selected subjects.

The Backbench Business Committee meets weekly on Tuesdays to consider requests for debates from any backbench Members of Parliament on any subject.

The Committee then has to decide how to allocate the limited Parliamentary time it has at its disposal. The Committee's meetings are always conducted in public and can be watched on Parliament TV.

Representations made this week - 18 October 2016

MP(s)	Topic (link through to representation on Parliament TV)
Ian Blackford, Kirsten Oswald, Kirsty Blackman, Jim Shannon	Acceleration of the state pension age and its effect on women born in the 1950s
Siobhain McDonagh	Living Wage Week and the implementation of the National Living Wage
Helen Goodman, Roberta Blackman-Woods, Dan Poulter	Future co-operation with EU member states on scientific and university research projects
John Baron	Cancer strategy – one year on
Stephen Twigg, Chris White	Yemen
Philip Davies	International Men's Day 2016

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