No. 11 Downing Street

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 1 March 2007.

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Photo of Michael Fabricant Michael Fabricant Opposition Whip (Commons) 10:30, 1 March 2007

Will the Minister confirm that one of the so-called charities is the Smith Institute, that it meets monthly there and that often the lights are burning deep into the hours of midnight and beyond as it ponders hard how to brighten up the image of the rather dour Chancellor? Does that not make the Smith Institute a little more of a think-tank and a little less of a charitable institution?