QUESTIONS to the Prime Minister over the last couple of weeks have been very boisterous.

First we had Cameron and Brown arguing over the Post Office strike, which Cameron surprisingly won as his argument was to blame Brown for scrapping the proposals for part privatisation of the Royal Mail.

Even Sweep could have argued against that!

This week Cameron started his attack on the, by then, abolished cuts to the Territorial Army's training budget of £20million.

Former Defence Minister John Reid had, from a great height, sat on the Prime Minister at which point Gordon yielded.

Cameron tried to claim credit for his party alone, if he credited a bit to Reid, he would have done better. He then reverted to the economy and attacked Brown for 'boom and bust'.

This simply did not ring true as the recession is worldwide and Brown is not wholly to blame. I gave Gordon a narrow points victory on this.

LAST week the main two debates of the day followed PMQs. Both were Liberal Democrat led; on Equitable Life and on climate change. It is also the first time I have been lobbied by constituents to attend both opposition debates on the same day.

Simon Hughes kicked off the debate on climate change charging the Government with a lack of leadership. He said 'a UN report this year stated that 300,000 deaths a year are all attributable to climate change; that 325 million people are seriously affected at a cost to the global economy of $125billion a year and that four billion people are vulnerable to climate impact'.

He wanted the Government to show more leadership and commit the Government and all public bodies to the objectives of the 10:10 campaign.

I have personally committed to this and I will cut my carbon emission by 10 per cent by the end of next year.

Many MPs have signed up to this, but sadly not the Government which rejected the Lib Dem motion.

This week with the Copenhagen talks looming, the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg questioned Brown on what he had done.

Brown listed a number of items which Clegg gave him credit for, but said it was not enough and asked why the Prime Minister went through the lobby against the motion to commit Parliament to the 10/10 campaign — that is to cut its carbon emissions by 10 per cent in 2010. A direct hit for Clegg and an easy victory.

Equitable Life

BEFOREHAND Vince Cable had led for the Lib Dems on Equitable Life, claiming the Government's response was inadequate and he had major concerns 'for human welfare and the individuals who have lost from the disaster. There were a million Equitable Life policyholders; some 400,000 policies are still managed by the company and 600,000 by other insurance companies. Around 30,000 of the original policyholders have died since the collapse, 6,000 since the Ombudsman's Report and every day that passes before justice is obtained another 15 die'.

What Vince and other MPs from all parties wanted to know is when John Chadwick would report. Eventually the chief secretary to the treasury, Liam Byrne, said it would be in the spring.

He was then pressed as to when in the spring, as the season runs until June 20, and that after the report is published, when would compensation be paid? There was no answer to this and members suggested it could be as late as 2011. On my calculations, another 7,500 policyholders will have died by then. Funny kind of justice.