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Urgent question on exclusion of journalist from Russia

9 February 2011

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Minister for Europe, David Lidington, responded to an urgent question asked by Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda on the exclusion of Guardian journalist, Luke Harding, from Russia

Urgent questions

Urgent questions are asked at the end of Question Time. If something has happened, usually a matter of public importance, which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, he may apply to the Speaker to ask an urgent question.

If the Speaker agrees, the question will be asked at the end of Question Time.