EU Council, Security and Middle East Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

EU Council, Security and Middle East

John Bercow Excerpts
Monday 1st September 2014

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Richard Drax Portrait Richard Drax (South Dorset) (Con)
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. I apologise for leaving the Chamber; I had to go to a statutory instrument Committee. I heard a question earlier about how much money we are spending on defence. Will the Prime Minister consider, bearing in mind what is going on in the world, that 2% is simply not enough?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. It is very candid of the hon. Gentleman to inform me, and some hundreds of other people, that he absented himself from the Chamber for a period. It was a fact of which I was unaware, but full marks for 100% candour.