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On Thursday 4 November 2015 I applied to Mr Speaker Berco for an Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the upcoming elections in Burma which Mr Speaker granted.

On Thursday 5 November 2015, I was drawn at No 3 at Questions for the Church Commissioners. I asked:

I attended the Big Bang fair on the 5 November 2015 hosted by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee in celebration of engineers week.

As a member of the Panel of Chairs, I chaired two debates on Wednesday 4 November 2015 in Westminster Hall, the Wanless Review and the Dickens file and the Regulation of Care homes.

On Tuesday 3 November 2015 I attended a National Pro Bono week event to highlight pro bono work undertaken by the legal profession. Pro bono legal services are not, nor can they ever be, a substitute for a properly funded system of legal aid. However for those who are not eligible for for the public funding system and are unable to pay for legal advice, free advice and representation provided by volunteer lawyers is often the only means of obtaining access to justice in order to enforce their rights.