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Business of the House

The Leader of the House will know that the press and the public are excluded from the weekly meetings of the European Scrutiny Committee. The Committee asked to meet in public during the past Parliament, but the then Leader of the House did nothing to change Standing Orders to allow that. What is the right hon. Gentleman’s attitude towards openness and transparency, or is this another issue on which the Government lecture everybody else—in this case about the need for public access—and then do nothing to alter our parliamentary procedures to permit it?