Elsewhere, Llanelli Labour MP Nia Griffith used an adjournment debate to press the case - dismissed by the government - for the compulsory state registration of hairdressers. (BBC News)
After the event was opened by Labour MP Keith Vaz, chair of the committee, young people were given an hour to discuss a list of questions among themselves before they were given an opportunity to take the floor and voice their opinions. (Guardian)
In the Seventies, as a Labour backbench MP, I worked to get a public sector order for a major employer in my constituency. The civil servant in charge of the procurement seemed unreasonably obstructive and even to be promoting a competing company’s cause. (Telegraph)
Prominent energy companies have written to MPs asking them to reject a budget bill containing a $1.3bn cut to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. (Guardian)
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