Updates to the Freedom of Information Act will be debated in the House of Keys today (Tuesday).

MHKs are due to debate the clauses of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill and, in a way that only politicians can, there are a number of amendments to the amendment bill that are due to be tabled.

But, the issue that is likely to generate the most heated discussion was not even on the original agenda paper.

Rob Callister (Onchan), a former member of the Department of Health and Social Care, has been granted leave to table an emergency question asking Health Minister Kate Beecroft to make a statement on the shock decision to axe her department’s funding of Age Concern’s Meals on Wheels service.

Mrs Beecroft will no doubt be delighted at the opportunity to put her side of the story for a second time - her department did put out a press release announcing the change last week.

It may be that, in a second attempt to explain the reasoning, she convinces the MHKs it is the right move. Or she may not.

Will members’ revolt? Will we see a U-turn so fast it puts Theresa May in the shade? Will Chief Minister Howard Quayle ride in on his white charger with a solution? Or will it be sent for further consideration in the hope we all forget how upset everyone was?

It was always going to be a busy question paper anyway, without Mr Callister’s addition.

Twenty questions have been tabled for oral answer, covering issues that include preparations for Brexit, orthodontic care, the sub-post office network, public sector housing policy, the application of means testing to housing and prescription costs, pressures facing the offshore insurance sector and whether a new operator has been found for the meat plant.

Aside from meals on wheels, Mrs Beecroft will also be asked which non-essential roles will not be filled, as per the announcement she made last month, and how this might affect services.

She will also be asked what provision her department has for treating the victims of both sexual harassment and assault.

Members will grant a formal first reading to the Safeguarding Bill, which is acting on a recommendation first made in 2006 that bodies charged with safeguarding children should be put on a statutory footing.

The bill will actually replace the Safeguarding Children Board and the Safeguarding Adults Board with a single Safeguarding Board, placed on a statutory footing.

The Road Transport, Licensing and Registration (Amendment) Bill, which will pave the way for technology to replace tax discs, will undergo detailed scrutiny in the clauses stage.

Treasury department member Bill Shimmins MHK will seek the suspension of standing orders to allow the Gambling (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Bill, to come back before the Keys, for consideration of amendments made by the Legislative Council.

The Treasury is in a race against time to get the bill made law in time to honour its international obligations.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that Mr Shimmins has been campaigning for additional sittings of the Keys, to avoid such pressures building up.

In the Legislative Council, the Dogs (Amendment) Bill, which paves the way for compulsory micro-chipping to replace the current licensing system, is down for a third reading.

The Customs and Excise Bill, designed to assist in the fight against financing of international terrorism, arrives from the House of Keys for a first reading.