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Business of the House

Following East Devon district council's insistence on a judicial review of the boundary changes, Mr. Justice Cranston said that the boundary committee had""misdirected itself as to what it could publish, consult on and propose to the Secretary of State"." In addition, the Minister for Local Government said:""No change has always been an option."—[Official Report, Westminster Hall, 24 February 2009; Vol. 488, c. 22WH.]" That is certainly not what the boundary committee told Members of Parliament when we were briefed at the beginning of the process. Therefore, please will the Leader of the House insist that the Secretary of State makes an urgent statement to the House at the earliest opportunity to clarify a process that is rapidly becoming a fiasco?