Finance (No. 2) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:25 am on 21 May 2024.
Pauline Latham
Conservative, Mid Derbyshire
9:25,
21 May 2024
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The selection list for today’s sitting is available in the room. It shows how the clauses and the selected new Clause have been grouped for debate. Matters grouped together are generally on the same or a similar issue. A Member may speak more than once in a single debate.
I call the Minister to move the programme motion standing in his name, which was discussed yesterday by the Programming Sub-Committee.
Ordered,
That—
(1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 9.25 am on Tuesday 21 May) meet—
(a) at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 21 May;
(b) at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 23 May;
(2) the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 5.00 pm on Thursday 23 May. —
Pauline Latham
Conservative, Mid Derbyshire
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