Business Statement

When the House resumes on Tuesday, 12 April the Government will look to make progress on the Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill, the annual review debate, and a number of other bills on the Order Paper.

I wonder whether the Leader of the House could inform us whether it is still the Government’s intention to extend the sitting on Wednesday into Thursday.

It is, indeed, the Government’s intention—in fact, it is the Business Committee’s intention. I thought it was not worth repeating something that, clearly, the member would have told his other members will actually happen on that day. But there will be three bills debated that particular day. They are all settlement bills, following what is becoming, I think, quite a positive pattern in the House, using extended sittings to achieve those particular results.