Arrangement of Business

Baroness Anelay of St Johns Excerpts

Thursday 25th April 2013 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Anelay of St Johns]

My Lords, yesterday evening I announced that Parliament will be prorogued some time this afternoon. I hope it might help the House if I now give a small indication of our progress today.

We will shortly turn to our annual Maastricht Motion debate. This debate does not have a list of speakers. Therefore it is rather difficult to estimate the length of time the debate may take. If it concludes before 1 pm, we will adjourn during pleasure until 1 pm to await a message from the Commons. At that point, I hope to be able to announce the time of the Royal Commission. In other words, although I cannot give specifics about the time of the Royal Commission now, I certainly hope to do so around 1 pm.