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that preparatory
work should continue, to enable this Bill to go
forward in a first Session programme.
Additional Bills for a first Session
7.
Our proposals for additional Bills on which preparatory work is to be undertaken with a view to their possible inclusion in a
first Session programme now include some but not all of those we have deleted from the fifth Session programme. These are listed in Annex C; and Annex D comments on those changes which have been made. Clearly it would be impossible to accommodate all these Bills as well as the fifth Session list in any
realistic first
Session programme,
this stage.
Drafting
8.
but this approach preserves flexibility at
We agreed that we must continue to insist on tight deadlines
for the submission of instructions. For fifth Session candidates
in our original proposals the deadline for the submission of
instructions was the end of this month and that must be adhered
to.
For new fifth Session candidates we must insist that
instructions should be submitted by the end of June. The same
goes for candidates for preparatory work
except where the notes
If
in Annex D indicate that a slower timescale is envisaged.
these deadlines cannot be met, the place of Bills in the
programme will have to be reconsidered. Within the resources available to Parliamentary Counsel priority will, of necessity, be given to fifth Session Bills.
Parliamentary Handling
9.
We envisage a further review of our proposals in July, to begin to plan a more detailed strategy for introduction and the
determination of business management priorities during the Session. In preparing our proposals we have had in mind the need for a satisfactory balance between Commons and Lords starters.
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