PAEDOPHILES, mobile phone communication masts and the MMR vaccination are three areas which have caused difficulties for the Government.

And there is likely to be more tough questioning on at least one of these next year.

Bromsgrove Tory MP Julie Kirkbride came 11th in the ballot for Private Members' Bills for this parliamentary session.

Any legislation she introduces has little chance of becoming law given that a General Election is expected in May, or even April next year.

To bring in a law, she would have to take on a non-controversial Government-prepared bill.

Miss Kirkbride, who has a nine-week-old son Angus, would only opt for this if the legislation was a worthy cause.

But she is far more likely to introduce a Bill to clamp down on paedophiles using the internet to prey on children or legislation to restrict the siting of mobile phone masts.

Though, perhaps, the most likely is a proposed law to give parents a choice on whether to give their children vaccinations for mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) separately rather than all at once.

The Department of Health has played down the risk of autism from the single vaccination but many parents are still concerned about it.

I don't want to undermine the immunisation programme but I just want to give parents choice," says Miss Kirkbride.

All three legislative options are likely to fail to become law but they will highlight these issues again on a national stage.