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Defence debate

The Leader added that, as he had indicated during Business Questions earlier, it was likely that the House would debate defence issues in the week beginning January 29 or the following week. Asked if it was too early, at that stage, to debate the Trident issue, Mr Straw pointed out that, by convention, there were five defence-related debates in the annual parliamentary calendar. The next one was due in a couple of weeks. He also pointed out that he had been asked by an MP if it was possible to raise Afghanistan in the Iraq/Middle East debate; the answer was "with difficulty", but it would be possible during the subsequent defence debate.

On the specific Iraq debate, it was almost certain that Margaret Beckett would open. When he had been asked whether the Prime Minister would open, he had replied that it was always the case in his experience that the Foreign Secretary opened debates on foreign policy.

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