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On Tuesday 1 December I chaired a session on the Role of an MP as part of the annual Westminster Seminar, CPA UK’s flagship capacity-building programme for first-term parliamentarians and newly appointed procedural/committee Clerks from across the Commonwealth. The programme provides a unique, international platform for its participants to meet their counterparts and explore parliamentary democracy, practice and procedure within a Westminster framework, and share experiences and challenges faced in their parliamentary work.
<p/>My questions to the Information Commissioner are set out below:
At the second session, The Minister Ed Vaizey MP gave evidence to the Committee.
On Tuesday 1 December the Science and Technology Committee examined the opportunities and risks of 'big data' and explored the Open Data Institute (ODI). Below are my contributions to the session and responses from the witnesses.
On Monday 30 November 2015 I asked a question to the Secretary of State for Health during the Statement on Junior Doctors.
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Covid Memorial Wall
20mph Speed Limits
RAF Centenary Flypast