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Welsh Affairs

The comparison is not relevant, but as the hon. Lady has asked me about the matter, I do not believe that list Members should be able to set up constituency offices in constituencies in which Assembly Members have been elected to do constituency work which is also undertaken by Members of Parliament. It is a matter for the Assembly: I was simply expressing my own view. As the hon. Lady has intervened to raise a matter originally raised by the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr, may I offer her some Conservative views on the question of a Tory-led coalition? Nick Bourne, the Welsh Tory leader, said on 6 October 2006:"““There are discussions going on, of course there are, on an informal basis between parties about what is going to happen after the next election.””" I can offer the hon. Lady other quotes if she provokes me even further.