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MPs debate housing benefit and the Charter for Budget Responsibility

20 July 2016 (updated on 20 July 2016)

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MPs are to debate reductions in housing benefit for people in supported housing, on Wednesday 20 July 2016 in the House of Commons. 

The debate is the first of two to take place this afternoon on subjects chosen by the Opposition.

Housing benefit for people in supported housing

The debate is expected to begin approximately 1.30pm, after today's Urgent Question on Orgreave and a Ten Minute Rule Motion on Electoral Reform (Proportional Representation and Reduction of Voting Age.

Timings are approximate as Parliamentary business is subject to change.

Transcripts of proceedings in the House of Commons Chamber are available three hours after they happen in Today's Commons Debates.

Charter for Budget Responsibility

The second of today's Opposition debates is on the Charter for Budget Responsibility.

The debate is expected to start at 4pm and to last approximately three hours.

Timings are approximate as Parliamentary business is subject to change.

Transcripts of proceedings in the House of Commons Chamber are available three hours after they happen in Today's Commons Debates.

Related information

About Opposition day debates

Opposition days are days allocated in the House of Commons in each session for the discussion of subjects chosen by the Opposition.
Seventeen days are at the disposal of the Leader of the Opposition, the leader of the largest opposition party, to decide which matters are debated. Three days are usually divided between the other opposition parties.

The Opposition generally use them to raise questions of policy and administration. Frequently, two separate subjects are debated on an opposition day.

Watching Opposition day debates from the public gallery

UK residents and overseas visitors can watch proceedings in the House of Commons by visiting the public gallery.


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