There should surely be a call to pension off MPs, maybe putting them out to pasture when they hit 65. It would have saved Totnes MP Anthony Steen a bit of embarrassment – he wouldn’t have been caught parking in a disabled bay at Newton Abbot train station, and the expenses spent on his state-funded palatial home wouldn’t have come to light. And now the question is, is his memory going?
The Totnes MP, who was born in 1939, asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when the Minister for Children planned to reply to the letters from October 21, 2009 on a proposed meeting with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children.
But according to Diana Johnson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families, the reply has been sent.
She said: “My ministerial colleague, the Minister for Children, Young People and Families (Dawn Primarolo), replied to the hon. Member for Totnes on 11 November 2009, agreeing to a meeting to discuss the important issues around human trafficking raised last year in a Westminster Hall adjournment debate on safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation.”
Maybe he just got confused.
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(Image: Anthony Steen Anthony Steen opening the Brixham Heritage Festival in 2005 used under Creative Commons)
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