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Economic Downturn (Unemployment)

I entirely apologise for not having read the report. I will make sure that I read it with great care immediately after this meeting. Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that the trouble with her Select Committee is that because her Whips Office insisted that each regional Select Committee should have a majority of Labour Members on it, the Conservative party would have to have Members from outside the south-west sitting on the SWRSC? This is a regional Select Committee. Surely it is right that a regional Select Committee should be represented by MPs in the region and not MPs outside it.