Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jim McMahon and Shailesh Vara

Thursday 14th April 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Vara]

The hon. Lady was not in the House in 2011, but the issue, as I said, was heavily debated. A vote was taken after a Backbench Business Committee debate. As she knows only too well, a point of order was raised after that debate and the person sitting in the Chair at the time happened to be the first and former Chairman of the Backbench Business Committee. She made it abundantly clear that votes taken after debates tabled by the Backbench Business Committee are not binding on the Government.

[Jim McMahon (Oldham West and Royton) (Lab)]

3. What assessment she has made of the effect of measures in the 2016 Budget on different genders.