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Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 8)

Will my hon. Friend be careful not to allow the Government to get away with the idea that they have misused the House's arrangements only in respect of the treaty of Lisbon to ensure that there is not proper debate of Bills? There has never been a time in which legislation has been so ill-debated, so ill-argued and therefore so ill-produced as since the so-called modernisation that the Government have carried through.