MPs to break up for summer holidays two days earlier

July 15, 2010 12:00 pm by Jim Pickard

Constituents rejoice.

It transpires that you will be seeing your MPs earlier than you thought. Instead of breaking up on July 29 Parliament may break up two days earlier; July 27. The change depends on a motion put forward today by Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons.

In effect the motion switches a Thursday for a Tuesday, somehow allowing MPs to leave earlier. Not that you would know it from the way it is written, of course. (The House returns on September 6).

UPDATE: An eagle-eyed reader points out that there is a much clearer motion today setting things out (see comments).

SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (27 JULY)
[No debate after 6.00 pm]
Sir George Young
That, on Tuesday 27 July,
(1)
the House shall meet at 10.30 am;
(2)
references to specific times in the Standing Orders of this House shall apply as if that day were a Thursday;
(3)
the sitting in Westminster Hall shall begin at 12.30 pm and continue until 5.00 pm; and
(4)
the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any message from the Lords has been received, any Committee to draw up Reasons which has been appointed at that sitting has reported, and he has notified the Royal Assent to Acts agreed upon by both Houses.
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