Off again
It's 4.08pm - and MPs have adjourned for the day. Potentially, they could have gone on until 7pm - and then held a half hour adjournment debate. Instead, the Labour MP Nick Ainger's adjournment on the use of personal oxygen on public transport got started at 3.34pm. He got through his complaints about the way some public transport providers treat people with lung problems - and the Transport Minister Paul Clark got through his response by 4.08pm.
And that was that.
In fairness, before that there'd been a reasonable turnout for the second reading of the Cluster Munitions Bill, with lots of anecdotes about brushes with death - in 1955, the then 10-year-old Conservative Robert Key saw five of his friends killed by a mine washed ashore on Swanage beach. But that bill was pretty uncontroversial, and the debate didn't last long.
So a few more hours of that scarce parliamentary debating time lost forever. On Thursday there's a "general debate on the work of the Intelligence and Security Committee". I wonder how long that will last?
I'm Mark D'Arcy and I'll be writing about what goes on in the chambers and committee rooms at Westminster.
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