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Business of the House

In Iraq today, citizens will vote in their general election and they will not use the first-past- the-post system. In the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly do not use the first-past-the-post system. In 2007, people who vote in local elections in Scotland will not use that system. We have the unfinished business of the reform of the House of Lords. Whatever the elected element, no one argues for the first- past-the post system. Is not it time that we had a debate in the House on the merit of the respective systems for national and local elections in England?