Backbench Business Committee weekly meeting
18 December 2017
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 18 December 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 |
| Thelma Walker | Exclusion of fostered children from 30 hours of funded childcare |
| Vernon Coaker | Defence |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community |
| Alistair Carmichael | Policy framework for agriculture after the UK leaves the EU |
| Maggie Throup | Effect of junk food advertising on children's obesity |
| Rt Hon Joan Ryan | Proscription of Hezbollah |
| Derek Thomas | Marriage in Government policy |
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