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Debate on central London businesses

28 October 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)

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Cities of London and Westminster MP, Mark Field, opens Westminster Hall debate on rates of taxation for central London businesses.

An adjournment debate is simply a way 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.