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Business of the House

Continuing with the subject of Wednesday’s business, is it true that the Leader of the House wants to curtail the time spent discussing the allowances to Sinn Fein because a Labour bash is being held somewhere else in the precincts of the House at the time? Will the right hon. Gentleman remove that business entirely from Wednesday’s schedule, on the basis of the answer that he gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Dodds) and me last week, which was that he could not justify such payments if the IRA was continuing with its criminality?