There is a veritable feast of questions at today (Tuesday’s) sitting of the House of Keys.

Following weeks of impressive restraint, while they rightly put consideration of the Abortion Reform Bill as the top priority, you can almost feel the sigh of relief from MHKs as a multitude of queries amble their way onto this week’s agenda - 16 for oral answer.

They include a call for Chief Minister Howard Quayle to make a statement on last week’s Westminster developments concerning beneficial ownership.

What we really want to know is whether the Isle of Man has actually dodged the bullet fired at British Overseas Territories, who face having legislation forced upon them, or is the gun still being pointed at us.

Other issues include redundant public-sector buildings, Shoprite’s decision to close its town centre store in Douglas, the advertising budget to promote the Isle of Man, rates modernisation delays (or otherwise, depending on who you listen to), and different medical services provided by the NHS.

To the delight of all who enjoy the Bert and Ernie interactions of Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas and Liberal Vannin rascal Lawrie Hooper, the latter has taken up the challenge of the former, to table a question seeking the clarification of the colour coding of the ’status indicators’ contained within the mighty tome that is the Programme for Government.

Mr Thomas recently, while enjoying parliamentary bantz with Mr Hooper, suggested there was a lack of understanding of the meaning of the green, amber and red colourings-in.

Anyone who thinks that the layout of the P4G - as those of us in the know call the Programme for Government - is not always easy to follow and might even be designed to make it difficult to spot when a previously stated target or indicator has morphed into something else, is surely wrong?

Today could be the day when we have that confirmed.

Written questions include investments by the Media Development Fund and any curriculum differences between the soon-to-co-exist St Thomas’ and Scoill Vallajeelt primary schools.

In addition to rubber-stamping Legislative Council amendments to our old friend, the Anti-Money Laundering and Other Financial Crime (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, the Keys is also due to consider a motion for standing orders of the House of Keys to include ’gender neutral’ terms.

It is actually an important point to consider, but our money is on half the debate being about whether they should actually spend time debating such matters.

Meanwhile, in the Legislative Council, although the Abortion Reform Bill has completed its passage from the Keys, it is not yet ready to be presented to the upper chamber. This is because of the need to publish a new version of the bill, incorporating the many additions and amendments.

Bill Henderson, who will be in charge of the bill when it is ready, is due to give a statement.