PrivilegeWatch 2011 (Day Four): Liveblogging Procedure and House Affairs

After an acrimonious post-witness debate last week, the Procedure and House Affairs committee voted to break with longstanding parliamentary tradition and draft its final report on the Brison privilege motion in public -- and on camera, even.

According to the notice, the committee has set aside four and a half hours to decide whether the government should be found in contempt of Parliament for failing to hand over documents related to the full cost of the Conservative crime agenda, which may or may not be just to scare less devoted committee watchers and livebloggers away from what could be a thumb-testing exercise in filibuster-chronicling frustration. If so - well, they really don't know us very well, do they? 

The committee is, of course, working under a tight deadline -- the orders of reference state that the report has to be returned to the House by the end of today, with a full House debate -- and, almost certainly, a vote -- on its content set to unfold later this week, most likely on Wednesday, although there's an outside chance that the matter could hit the floor of the Chamber as early as this afternoon.