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Report from the House of Commons Reform Committee on Rebuilding the House

I have no difficulty with the recommendation of the Committee on Reform of the House of Commons on that subject. Both I and the Leader of the Opposition have given public commitments that the Government should relinquish their grip on the timetable of the House. When the Leader of the House gave evidence a fortnight ago, she accused me of not being in favour of a House business committee. That was particularly unfair as we had not had an opportunity to put our views in the public domain, and I hope that she now accepts that that is not the case.