Backbench Business Committee for next Parliament debate

It's M.E. Linda said:
I have been watching the Backbench Business Committee each Tuesday, for news of whether any House of Commons time has been allocated yet.
Quote below from a committee member in respect of another application on Tuesday 20 November 2018 Hansard:

“Bob Blackman: Unfortunately and very sadly, notwithstanding the importance of the application and the number of speakers you have, we have no Chamber time whatever to allocate. However, we potentially can guarantee you a three-hour debate in Westminster Hall. It depends on your requirements, in terms of time-sensitivity........

We could provide you with the certainty of a three-hour debate in Westminster Hall. Debates in the Chamber that are set for three hours very rarely get three hours; they get two and half hours, if we are lucky, because we get squeezed by statements and UQs. The reality is that given the queue of debates in the offing on time-sensitive issues, and the lack of Chamber time, you wouldn’t get a debate on this until probably the end of January, if you waited for the Chamber. Under those circumstances, would you accept a Westminster Hall opportunity, if one were forthcoming?”

So the third ME debate is in ‘the queue’.
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Can you give the link for where this is from Linda? As, admittedly from my dodgy memory, that looks exactly the same as what was said the first time around, when they settled for a Westminster Hall debate.
 
Andy said:
Can you give the link for where this is from Linda? As, admittedly from my dodgy memory, that looks exactly the same as what was said the first time around, when they settled for a Westminster Hall debate.
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Not wishing to reply on behalf of Linda, but here is the latest.
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenev...oposals-for-backbench-debates/oral/92638.html

Under Q8.

The Chair says:
We haven’t had any Chamber time for about five weeks. As I speak, we haven’t yet been informed that we have any time in the weeks to come; there is certainly none this week, and we haven’t been given any indication of having time next week. We have 10 unheard debates looking for Chamber time on the stocks, so I think Bob’s counsel is very wise.

And then right at the bottom says:
For the information of our colleagues from Ghana, the debates as yet unheard are on quite a range of subjects—on a cumulative impact assessment of changes to disability support; on children’s social care in England; on settling the debt owed to victims of the Equitable Life scandal; on the sustainability of maintained nursery schools; on beer taxation and pubs; on the protection of home buyers; on appropriate ME treatment; on the UN report on the Rohingya refugee crisis; and on International Men’s Day. We have a fairly broad span of subjects waiting to be debated.
 
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