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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 November 2010.

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Photo of Jamie Reed Jamie Reed Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 2:30, 23 November 2010

The Secretary of State will know that proposals to close both the county court and magistrates court in my town of Whitehaven have been met with widespread anxiety and have been condemned by the local bench and local solicitors. Will he agree to meet us, so that he can learn at first hand just how ruinous the proposals would be if enacted?