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Debate on strategy for economic recovery in Lancashire

6 May 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)

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Blackpool South MP, Gordon Marsden, leads Westminster Hall adjournment debate on skills initiatives and strategy for economic recovery in Lancashire

An adjournment debate is simply a way in the Commons of having a general debate without requiring the House to vote.

At sittings in Westminster Hall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays there are two one-and-a-half hour debates and three half-hour debates. The one-and-a-half hour debates are intended to be more general involving a number of MPs.

Each government department is available to respond to debates only every other week, according to a rota.