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Business of the House

Now that regional government is dead and buried, can my hon. Friend arrange for a Grand Committee to be set up to represent the regions? It is embarrassing that we should have bureaucrats and quangos who are accountable to nobody. Why not make them accountable to a Grand Committee representing regions such as the north-west, which is bigger than Scotland and has more representation in Parliament? We should have a say on how the money is spent or wasted.