Proceeding contribution from Christopher Chope (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 12 March 2009. It occurred during Debate on Use of the Chamber (Youth Parliament).

Use of the Chamber (Youth Parliament)

I am grateful to the Deputy Leader of the House for giving way. The reason I am looking querulous is that the Prime Minister said:""Consultation will take place with…Mr. Speaker, and through the Leader of the House, with this House as to whether the Youth Parliament should be invited here in this Chamber once a year, on a non-sitting day."—[Official Report, 3 July 2007; Vol. 462, c. 819.]" He did not say once, but "once a year". Is that a pledge that the Prime Minister has made on which the Government are now reneging, or should some other meaning be given to those words?

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 489 c533
Session: 2008-09
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Subjects: Democracy Education House of Lords House of Commons Politics and government Parliament Young people House of Commons chamber UK Youth Parliament
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Use of the Chamber (Youth Parliament)

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