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Debate on Wareham railway station

28 October 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)

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Mid Dorset and Poole North MP, Annette Brooke, intoduced a Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the proposed closure of the Wareham station pedestrian level crossing. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Mole, responded for the Government.

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.