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Business of the House

Earlier this year, the Prime Minister told Parliament that special advisers should be made to attend Select Committees on exactly the same basis as civil servants, yet last month he blocked his own special adviser, Lord Birt, from attending the Select Committee on Public Administration. May we have an urgent debate on the matter? To many of us, that seems like a case of the Prime Minister saying one thing in public, and doing something completely different in private, when it comes to his own business.