MPs debate e-petition relating to research funding for pancreatic cancer
8 September 2014
On Monday 8 September MPs debated an e-petition relating to research funding for and awareness of pancreatic cancer. The debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee.
The Members in charge for this debate were Nic Dakin, Labour MP for Scunthorpe, and Eric Ollerenshaw, Conservative MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood.
This debate relates to the following e-petition:
Watch the debate and read the transcript
The debate, which took place in Committee Room 10, was opened by Nic Dakin. Shadow Health Minister, Jamie Reed, responded on behalf of the Opposition. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Jane Ellison, responded for the Government.
- Watch Parliament TV: MPs debate an e-petition relating to research funding for and awareness of pancreatic cancer
- Read Commons Hansard: MPs debate an e-petition relating to research funding for and awareness of pancreatic cancer
Backbench Business Committee
The Backbench Business Committee meets weekly on Tuesdays at 3pm to consider requests for debates from any backbench Members of Parliament on any subject, including those raised in e-petitions or national campaigns.
An MP must make a representation before the Committee for an e-petition or petition to be debated; e-petitions exceeding the Government's 100,000 signature threshold are not automatically allocated backbench time.
The Committee then has to decide how to allocate the limited Parliamentary time it has at its disposal. The Committee's meetings are always conducted in public and can be watched on Parliament TV.
Westminster Hall relocation: September 2014
For the two weeks of the September sitting all sittings of the House in Westminster Hall (the Grand Committee Room) will take place in Committee Room 10 on the Main Committee Corridor.
This is to allow stair-free access to these sittings to be maintained while works are carried out to the lift serving the Grand Committee Room. Sittings will return to the Grand Committee Room from October.