To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, answering for the House of Commons Commission with reference to the answer of 20 July 2009, Official Report, columns 747-8W, on standing committees: internet, what progress has been made on placing on the Parliament website the transcripts of Standing Committee debates held prior...

To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, answering for the House of Commons Commission with reference to the answer of 20 July 2009, Official Report, columns 747-8W, on standing committees: internet, what progress has been made on placing on the Parliament website the transcripts of Standing Committee debates held prior...

To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what steps the Commission is (a) taking and (b) plans to take over the next two years to make available on the Parliamentary website the transcript of Standing Committee debates held prior to 1997; and if...

To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what steps the Commission is (a) taking and (b) plans to take over the next two years to make available on the Parliamentary website the transcript of Standing Committee debates held prior to 1997; and if...

On the basis of historical evidence and projections, if a Labour Government are re-elected with a comfortable working majority in the House, they will most likely have a comfortable working majority of English MPs. The hon. Lady can form her own views about whether that will happen, but that is...

On the basis of historical evidence and projections, if a Labour Government are re-elected with a comfortable working majority in the House, they will most likely have a comfortable working majority of English MPs. The hon. Lady can form her own views about whether that will happen, but that is...

I do not for one second dispute the Minister's figures, or indeed his statistical analysis, but surely he and his fellow Ministers, when planning Government policy, look not to past statistics, but to the statistics of the present and the possible statistics of the future. At the moment, it is...

I do not for one second dispute the Minister's figures, or indeed his statistical analysis, but surely he and his fellow Ministers, when planning Government policy, look not to past statistics, but to the statistics of the present and the possible statistics of the future. At the moment, it is...

We will bring forward details shortly, so the hon. Gentleman will just have to be patient for a few more weeks—that also answers my hon. Friend's sedentary question. This debate highlights the very difficult problem, for all of us who must confront such issues, of the composition of such Committees....

We will bring forward details shortly, so the hon. Gentleman will just have to be patient for a few more weeks—that also answers my hon. Friend's sedentary question. This debate highlights the very difficult problem, for all of us who must confront such issues, of the composition of such Committees....

Will the Minister give way?

Will the Minister give way?

I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me for not giving way, but I want to come on to the second myth. I was—very generously—left a lot of time at the beginning of my remarks, but I have many more important points to make about, for example, the Barnett...

I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me for not giving way, but I want to come on to the second myth. I was—very generously—left a lot of time at the beginning of my remarks, but I have many more important points to make about, for example, the Barnett...

And when?

And when?

Are the Government still insisting that the Labour party must have a majority on each Committee? That would lead to impossible difficulties in regions where it does not have sufficient members, and would seem to undermine the idea that the regional Select Committees should be representative of their regions.

Are the Government still insisting that the Labour party must have a majority on each Committee? That would lead to impossible difficulties in regions where it does not have sufficient members, and would seem to undermine the idea that the regional Select Committees should be representative of their regions.

What about London? The greatest amount of money seems to be spent there, but that could not be for reasons only of need.

What about London? The greatest amount of money seems to be spent there, but that could not be for reasons only of need.

I am not a London MP, and I hesitate to trespass on these extremely delicate issues. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that if any London MPs were present, they would strongly contest what he says. It is inevitable, with definitions of need, that individual areas will tend to put...

I am not a London MP, and I hesitate to trespass on these extremely delicate issues. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that if any London MPs were present, they would strongly contest what he says. It is inevitable, with definitions of need, that individual areas will tend to put...

I shall give way to both hon. Members in a moment. If we take further the proposal for an English Grand Committee to consider English legislation, we will be led down a slippery slope towards an English Parliament, which is an issue that I want to address, and the hon....

I shall give way to both hon. Members in a moment. If we take further the proposal for an English Grand Committee to consider English legislation, we will be led down a slippery slope towards an English Parliament, which is an issue that I want to address, and the hon....