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Legislative Process

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the logical corollary of his line of argument is that we could be on a slippery slope to creating different types of Members of Parliament based on value judgments as to the type of casework that they do and their geographical location? For instance, I have a lot of asylum and immigration cases in my constituency, but it would be a retrograde step to make a value judgment that my caseload was more deserving of a bigger allowance in delivering my duty as a Member of Parliament than someone in a rural area such as himself.