Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Austin of Dudley Excerpts
Monday 29th February 2016

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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We are awaiting the Legal Aid Agency’s response to our request to revoke the legal aid award on the grounds that it would not have been made in the first place had the agency been made aware of all relevant documentation in that case. We are still waiting on that judgment, but we believe it is imminent.

Lord Austin of Dudley Portrait Ian Austin (Dudley North) (Lab)
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Not content with comparing himself to our country’s wartime leader—the greatest ever Briton and saviour of the free world—this weekend the Mayor of London compared his opposition to the EU to James Bond taking on a sinister supranational organisation. May I therefore ask the Secretary of State whether, in all his dealings with the intelligence and security services, and with the special forces, such a similarity has ever occurred to him?