House of Commons to discuss Armenian Genocide Centennial on 23 March

17:30, 21 March, 2015

YEREVAN, 21 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. MPs of the House of Commons of the UK
Parliament will discuss the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide on
March 23rd. As “Armenpress” reports, this is mentioned in the Week
Ahead section of BBC. “On Monday, The Commons meets at 2.30pm for Home
Office questions – after which the prime minister will make a
statement on the outcome of the latest European Council. Any further
statements or urgent question will be taken when he is done. Then the
Lib Dem former health minister, Paul Burstow, will launch a ten minute
rule bill on Tobacco Manufacturers Producer Responsibility. A
consultation on a tobacco levy was announced by the Chancellor, George
Osborne, in the 2014 Autumn Statement, and this is part of a
cross-party campaign to direct the money – perhaps as much as £500m –
to pay for a programme of tobacco control measures including Stop
Smoking Services currently funded by local councils. The bill’s
supporters view it as an important way of boosting funding for
preventive health measures. MPs will move on to the final stage of the
Budget debate – where the chosen theme is jobs, pensions and savings –
which suggests the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith,
will be facing Labour’s Rachel Reeves. And the day will end with an
adjournment debate on the centenary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide –
led by Labour MP Stephen Pound,” as BBC reports.