Busy Day in Parliament (Posted January 7, 2019)



The House of Commons returns from its Christmas Recess today, and with the Meaningful Vote looming the government is storming out of the gate with three ministerial statements before a debate on the progress of policy changes suggested by the Dame Laura Cox Report.

There are also two Urgent Questions on the order paper, though the first, put down by Jeremy Corbyn, will probably render an update announcing no changes since the last update, and exchanges should therefore be short unless Labour members feel obliged to put a question on the record for the sake of appearances, in which case the exchanges would be insufferably long and thoroughly unproductive.

Oral questions:

Work and Pensions (including Topical Questions)

Urgent questions:

Changes to the EU Withdrawal Agreement - Jeremy Corbyn

Case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Tulip Siddiq

Ministerial statements:

NHS long-term plan - Matt Hancock

Migrant crossings - Sajid Javid

Drone consultation response - Chris Grayling

Debate:

Fifth Report from the Committee on Standards on implications of the Dame Laura Cox report for the House's Standards System: Initial Proposals, HC 1726 - Andrea Leadsom, Kate Green

Backbench Business:

General Debate on Children's Social Care in England - Tim Loughton

Adjournment Debate:

United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights interim report on the UK - Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck



Kenneth Clarke encourages members, in particular Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, to put forward workable Brexit solutions that can be supported by a majority. If a policy cannot be agreed by March 29, 2019, Clarke suggests, the Prime Minister should consider delaying the withdrawal date.





Dame Eleanor Laing responds to points of order regarding the closure of debate when members who want to contribute are standing to be called.






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