In this afternoon's Northern Ireland Budget Bill debate, I asked the Northern Ireland Secretary to prioritise public services in the region and exert caution over either direct rule or stop-gap financial planning.
This evening Andrew asked the Defence Secretary to take a close look at the most effective ways of allowing Armed Forced personnel to work on a flexible basis in a way that does not threaten morale or exacerbate retention problems.
This week the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee met with officials in Dublin, Ireland and Newry, Northern Ireland as we commenced our inquiry into the Irish land border.
Having resigned from the Court of the University of Bath in August in response to figures revealing that Bath's Vice Chancellor was the highest paid (£451,000) in the UK, Andrew called for a Commons debate on the wider issue of vice chancellors' pay.
Andrew was briefed by Team Rubicon in the humanitarian relief charity's Chilmark Ops room on Thursday on its volunteers' deployment to the hurricane ravaged Caribbean.
As the Prime Minister's Special Representative for the Centenary of the Great War, it was a privilege to speak in today's debate on the Third Battle of Ypres, a fight which came to epitomise the misery of trench warfare. Andrew said:
Last night, Andrew was elected Chair of the increasingly influential Northern Ireland Affairs Committee with 62% of the vote. Northern Ireland has well and truly found itself in the political spotlight in recent months, with political uncertainty in Stormont, questions arising from the Government
Andrew has been thanking residents for returning him with an increased majority. Andrew's vote climbed from 27,000 to 33,000 and his percentage of the vote from 53% to 60%.
Yesterday, Andrew spoke in the debate on the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill, urging caution over a Lords amendment to make the Government control drug prices, and that drugs reach patients soon after being approved.
