Urgent question on Tunisia
18 January 2011 (updated on 18 January 2011)
Minister for Europe, David Lidington, responded to an urgent question asked by Yvette Cooper, Shadow Foreign Secretary, on the subject of recent events in Tunisia
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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.