Non-legislative formal proceeding on Monday, 16 November 1998, in the House of Commons from the Liaison Committee.

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Estimates days

Mr Robert Sheldon reported, pursuant to Standing Order No. 145 (Liaison Committee), that the Liaison Committee had directed him to report the following recommendations for the allocation of time for the consideration of Estimates on an allotted day (being the first allotted day in the next Session of Parliament): that a day not later than 6th February be allotted for the consideration of the following Votes on Account for the financial year 1999–2000: 1. Class IV, Votes 1 and 2: Home Office administration, police, probation, immigration and other services, England and Wales, and Prisons, England and Wales, in so far as they relate to prison sentences and alternatives to prison sentences; 2. Class I, Votes 1 and 3: Department for Education and Employment: programmes and central services and Employment Service; and Class XII: Department of Social Security, insofar as they relate to New Deal Pathfinders and Pathways into Work for Lone Parents; and that debate on the first Estimate be interrupted not later than three hours after its commencement. Report to lie upon the Table.