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Business of the House

Having spent a great deal of time trying to clean up Parliament—I am in favour of the reforms and changes that have taken place—is it not important to have a statement early next week on the position regarding Lord Ashcroft, how he got his peerage, what promises were made on his behalf and what promises he made about paying UK tax in full? Could all the documentation on his peerage—correspondence and the rest of it—be placed in the Library as quickly as possible?