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Joan Ruddock |
Friday 18 October 2002 |
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Joan Ruddock One of the main reasons, it's said, that women are discouraged from becoming MPs are long hours worked at Westminster, often late into the evening.
Robin Cook has just set a date for a vote on changing those hours - the debate will be on 29th October. And the modernisation package will be hotly contested.
The proposal is to start at 11.30 in the morning on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and to finish at 7pm. Critics say the new hours would only be family friendly within the M25, and that it's all an excuse to take power away from Parliament.
Labour MP Joan Ruddock sits on the Modernisation Committee. She joins Martha to talk about how difficult it will be to predict which way the vote will go.
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