Backbench Business

John Bercow Excerpts

Thursday 1st December 2011 Commons Chamber

[Un-Allotted Day]

[Mr Speaker]

We have two debates on, respectively, BBC cuts and debt management services. It may be for the convenience of the House if I explain that the Backbench Business Committee anticipated and recommended that there should be a broadly equal division of time between the two. Starting as we are at just after 12.20 pm, I would expect the first debate to conclude at approximately 3.15 pm.