text_body: --- DIVISION TITLE ---
  
  Christmas Holiday
  
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  The majority of MPs voted for the House of Commons not to sit between Wednesday 16 December 2009 and Tuesday 5 January 2010
  
  This division was to have been taken on the 23rd of November[1]; but as it was reached at 10pm on that day it was deferred to the 25th. 
  
  There was no debate on this point immediately preceding the vote but a few days after this vote Conservative MP George Young  suggested the House of Commons could have used extra time to enable debates on the pre-budget report and Afganistan to take place.[2]
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-11-23a.372.3 Adjournment (Christmas)  House of Commons debates, 23 November 2009,  10:00 pm]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-12-03a.1283.3 George Young MP, House of Commons 3 December 2009]
  
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