Ms Nusrat Ghani

I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. Government Departments must reply promptly to questions; one whole year is very shameful indeed. The delay outlined by the hon. Member would suggest that something has gone seriously wrong in the Treasury in relation to answering this question. I assume that those on the Treasury Bench will relay the point to colleagues forthwith. I suggest that the hon. Member also ask the Chair of the Procedure Committee to look into the matter, because nobody should be waiting one whole year for a response to correspondence. English Devolution and Community Empowerment (Programme) (No.2) Ordered, That the Order of 2 September 2025 (English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Programme) be varied as follows: (1) Paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Order shall be omitted. (2) Proceedings on Consideration and Third Reading shall be taken in two days in accordance with the following provisions of this Order. (3) Proceedings on Consideration— (a) shall be taken on each of those days in the order shown in the first column of the following Table, and (b) shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of the Table.

Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
First day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the subject matter of, and amendments to, Part 1 and Part 2	The moment of interruption on the first day
Second day
New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the subject matter of, and amendments to, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6; remaining new Clauses and new Schedules; remaining proceedings on Consideration	One hour before the moment of interruption on the second day

(4) Proceedings on Third Reading shall be taken on the second day and shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on the second day.—(Stephen Morgan.)