I'd have to have a very close look at the exact details of that. It's certainly possible for parliamentary committees to continue to sit during recess, but it d

I'd have to have a very close look at the exact details of that. It's certainly possible for parliamentary committees to continue to sit during recess, but it doesn't look like they generally have during the conference period before (presumably because the Commons committees are made up of MPs who are busy with the conferences), and the government was already quite visibly scraping the barrel to find even delegated legislation to occupy Parliament's time back in July. There were some quite rude remarks from opposition MPs about how inconsequential some of the Brexit-related legislation they were scrutinizing was!