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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will guarantee that planned reductions in civil service headcount in his Department will no

I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about Ann Widdecombe.

If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 15 July.

I congratulate the Minister on the meeting he will have tomorrow and his offer to engage. I gently press him on reaching out.

You used to kick them around?

It is a great pleasure to participate in this debate, Sir Christopher, and to have the Minister in his place.

I have represented pig farmers in Holderness for 21 years—it has always been volatile, and the farmers accept the volatility, but never has

This is a humiliating day for the right hon. Gentleman.

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

The Leader of the House, in his reply to me, suggested that I had cost my right hon.