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Keys and LegCo sitting today

by isleofman.com 1st December 2009

Legal highs, bottled water and flooding will all be in a day's work for MHKs this morning when the House of Keys sits.

There are nine questions for oral answer, six for written reply and four bills are up for third reading.

Onchan MHK and Liberal Vannin Party leader Peter Karran has four questions, while North Douglas MHKs Bill Henderson and John Houghton provide the rest.

Mr Karran's questions focus mostly on housing, with queries for Treasury Minister Allan Bell and DoLGE Minister John Shimmin.

He will ask whether the Treasury has considered introducing new taxes on properties, and rents for company-owned lettings.

He will also also quiz Mr Shimmin about drainage regulations in a the light of the recent floods in Cumbria.

Meanwhile, North Douglas MHK John Houghton wants to know whether Home Affairs Minister Adrian Earnshaw plans to outlaw the 'legal high' drug mephedrone.

And his constituency partner Bill Henderson will ask the chief minister to make sure all of the government's bottled drinking water is locally sourced.

The Legislative Council also sits today, at 10.30am, when MLCs will discuss building work in Onchan.

You can hear live coverage of question time in the House of Keys on Manx Radio's AM 1368 service from 10 o’clock this morning.

Posted by isleofman.com
Tuesday 1st, December 2009 07:05pm.

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