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Business of the House

Following my right hon. and learned Friend's positive response to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble) about the Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill, can she say whether she has received any approach from the shadow Leader of the House, whose garrulous ramblings failed significantly and deplorably even to refer to the Bill, to say that the Opposition—a member of whom blocked the Bill—will now co-operate in both Houses to make this desirable legislation law by the dissolution?