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There was no response to that.Many other speakers have commented on the handling of the recession. It has become Brown's recession or Labour's recession—Derek Brownlee tries to take that line regularly—but we all know that that is not the case, because it is a worldwide recession.
Will he say something about the ability to recover money from people traffickers? Robert Brown is right to point to that particularly venal and abhorrent area of criminal activity.
The Government engages with our local authority colleagues on such matters.Like Mr Brownlee, Mr Gavin Brown and Mr Johnstone, Mr McLetchie made a number of comments on that part of the Conservatives' amendment that deals with nuclear power.
I would point out—particularly today—that it is Gordon Brown personally who has given a lead to debt cancellation and trade justice throughout the world.
I am largely in the same position as Mr Brown is in; indeed, ironically, I am in the same position as my predecessor was in, despite the fact that, when I was in opposition, I used to chide him for not having a more definitive answer.