Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Harriett Baldwin Excerpts
Tuesday 26th October 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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First, let me apologise if the hon. Gentleman had been waiting for a meeting; I am keen to ensure that one is fixed as soon as possible.

I was not in any way seeking to promote smoking. It is a very bad habit, and I would never advocate it to anybody else.

Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)
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T8. The coalition programme for government calls for a commission to be established to look into the West Lothian question. Please will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on the establishment of that commission?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, who has responsibility for constitutional affairs, will lead on that and he will announce our intention to set up a commission on the long-standing knotty problem of the West Lothian question by the end of the year.