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Business of the House

What assurance can the Leader of the House give me, as someone who supports the principle that Members' staff could be employed by the House centrally, that we would be voting on the general desirability of that and not on a motion that precluded proper consultation with all the staff affected or failed to recognise their rights? Members' staff are diverse, they work in many parts of the country, some part time and some full time, and they are not subject to the political restraints that hon. Members' House of Commons staff accept.