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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:51 pm on 27 June 1994.

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Photo of Mr Andrew Rowe Mr Andrew Rowe , Kent Mid 5:51, 27 June 1994

Does my hon. Friend agree that the real difficulty is that, the more effective a Select Committee report is, especially if the Committee has analysed and scrutinised matters such as Government expenditure programmes, the less welcome it is to the Executive? There is a real difficulty in ensuring that the reports that most need to be debated are given time. We could end up with many debates on the innocuous reports and no time for debates on the difficult ones.