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Business of the House

On the front of yesterday's Evening Standard was a picture of uncollected rubbish lying in the snow in Hammersmith. Many of my constituents have had no bus service or refuse collection this week, nor have they been able to walk on their pavements or drive on their streets, all because the incompetent Tory local council was not able to carry out its basic function of planning for or reacting to adverse weather. May we have a debate in Government time to explore how the Government can persuade local councils to carry out those basic functions?