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Business of the House

The "Building Britain's Future" White Paper, which was published earlier this week, states in terms that""the Government hopes that time will also be available in each House to debate this document."" As responses have to be in by 21 September, can the Leader of the House tell us when we will have an opportunity to debate the White Paper? We were promised such a debate in the White Paper itself. That substantive document contains a lot of detail and I hope that we will have a two-day debate on it. If not, all we shall get is, as it says,""Ministers…taking part in regional events"." That would, in effect, be a pre-general election publicity stunt, with Ministers going around the country, rather than providing us with an opportunity to debate what is proposed.