The Abortion Reform Bill will once more dominate proceedings in the House of Keys today.

There will be a renewed attempt to remove ’social well-being’ from the bill’s definition of health - although that has failed once - along with bids to introduce new definitions of ’serious impairment’ and ’serious social grounds’, to apply to the already approved provision for when abortions can take place in the 15-24-week period and for emergency late terminations.

Abortion on request in the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy has already been approved.

Ralph Peake (Douglas North) will make another attempt to add a safety zone provision to the bill.

Last month, MHKs gave support in principle to the proposal, to add new clauses to the bill that would enable the creation of ’access zones’ around the hospital, centres offering abortion services and the homes of medical staff.

But a number of members indicated that, when they debated the detail of the new clauses, they would be tabling numerous amendments and that has proven the case.

Protestors would face prosecution if they targeted vulnerable women or staff in such access zones.

Also last month, new provisions to set out the obligations on the medical profession for what happens after a termination procedure were approved in principle. They are also due for detailed scrutiny.

The bill is the only piece of legislation before the House of Keys for consideration today.

Question time is also relatively light.

There were meant to be six questions for oral answer, although the Examiner has learned that the query from Lawrie Hooper (LibVannin, Ramsey) - about what Chief Minister Howard Quayle to ’improve engagement with the Manx diaspora’ - will be withdrawn.

Rumours that the withdrawal was down to the fact the Chief Minister’s office needed to get a bigger dictionary - or, for that matter, that Mr Hooper was awaiting the arrival of a thesaurus - are sadly untrue. Apparently, the Department for Enterprise is in the middle of some work that makes it worth waiting a while before tabling the question.

Not to worry, Liberal Vannin fans, as Kate Beecroft (Douglas South) is due to ask Mr Quayle what action is being taken to comply with EU requirements and avoid being blacklisted. It could be quite a long answer, as the question does not specify what area of work or blacklisting we are talking about, and the EU has quite a wide remit.

Other questions cover travel guidance for women in the late stages of pregnancy, how much has been spent on keeping the old Castletown police station in one piece, changes to the government consultation process and what the latest is on rates reform.

Everybody’s favourite upper chamber, the Legislative Council, has a veritable feast of work. The Anti-Money Laundering and Other Financial Crime (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, and the Central Registry Bill arrive for first readings.

Unsurprisingly, the former does exactly as it says in the newspaper column-unfriendly title. We should be grateful it is not being moved by one of our double-barrelled MLCs, who have increased in number considerably following the LegCo election.

The latter, equally surprisingly, will create a Central Registry.

The Airports and Civil Aviation (Amendment) Bill, keeping the Isle of Man up to date with its international obligations, is due a third and final reading. So that will be one Mrs Beecroft and Mr Quayle can tick off from her blacklist question downstairs.

Finally, Jane Poole-Wilson will move that Legislative Council follows the examples set by Tynwald and the Keys that the voting patterns in ballots to elect committee members in LegCo should be made public.