Backbench Business Committee: MPs request debates
8 January 2018
Watch MPs put forward a case to the Backbench Business Committee for House time to debate their selected subjects.
- Watch the representations to the Committee from 2.30pm on Tuesday 9 January live on Parliament TV
- Backbench Business Committee
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.
MP(s) | Topic |
Dr Lisa Cameron | The role of disabled people in growing our economy |
Sir Edward Leigh | Restoration & Renewal of the Palace of Westminster |
Catherine West | Skills devolution |
Alistair Carmichael | Policy framework for agriculture after the UK leaves the EU |
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