MPs' House of Commons food and drink debts are to be revealed for the first time.
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Scotsman on 18th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
I am left wondering if someone is farting too much having read this written question,Mr. Burstow: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the House of Commons Commission's most recent assessment is of the efficiency of the ventilation systems in each building in the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.Too many subsidised baked beans?
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DizzyThinks on 20th May 2009 (via dizzythinks.net)
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for a shake-up of the internal mechanisms of the House of Commons in an attempt to restore the public's faith in parliament
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FT on 24th Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The House of Commons has united in support of the release of all papers relating to the Hillsborough tragedy 22 years ago.
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BBCPolitics on 18th Oct 2011 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The House of Commons has approved, without a vote, tougher economic sanctions against Iran, because of "serious concern" about its nuclear weapons programme from independent inspectors.
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BBCPolitics on 13th Dec 2011 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
From phone-hacking to the Arab Spring, and from the eurozone to Hillsborough it has been a momentous year in the House of Commons. Democracy Live has some of 2011's parliamentary highlights.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Dec 2011 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Apparently four soap dodgers have glued themselves together around a statue in the House of Commons. I suggest giving them a good ignoring to, and no attempt should be made to un-stick the idiots.
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DailyReferendum on 27th Apr 2009 (via dailyreferendum.blogspot.com)
It really does come to a pretty pass when the Leader of the House of Commons is asked to express confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Serjeant at Arms and three times declines to do so. It hasn't been a good day for Harriet Harman, has it? Skewered by Eddie Mair, and now by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight. If the Leader of the House of Commons doesn't have confidence in T...
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IainDale on 3rd Dec 2008 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
Members of the UK Youth Parliament are debating calls to scrap tuition fees and cut the cost of public transport for young people among other issues in the House of Commons.
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BBCPolitics on 4th Nov 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
After calling on the public to tighten their belts during the economic crisis Gordon Brown pictured might be well advised to stamp out profligacy closer to home. Mandrake can disclose that the amount of food being thrown away in the House of Commons restaurants has doubled in the past two years. An astonishing £96129 worth of food was binned in the 12 months to April 2008 compared to £...
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Telegraph on 1st Jan 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Conservative MP Roger Gale turns on Labour MP John Mann, wanting to know why he was in Sheffield and not the House of Commons.
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BBCPolitics on 15th Sep 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)