Business of the House Debate

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Business of the House

Dominic Raab Excerpts
Thursday 13th January 2011

(13 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Young of Cookham Portrait Sir George Young
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As the hon. Gentleman knows, we have introduced the Localism Bill. There may be an opportunity, as that Bill goes through the House, to have a debate on eligibility to be a local councillor, to see whether we can remove disqualifications for which there are no apparent reasons.

Dominic Raab Portrait Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton) (Con)
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This week, the outgoing Dutch member of the EU Court of Auditors criticised the watchdog for its “cover-up culture”, “Kremlin-style” misinformation, and watering-down of criticism of financial abuse. May we have a statement from Ministers on what is being done to tackle endemic fraud at the EU?