MPs will debate phone hacking
By Tony Grew - 8th September 2010
Mr Speaker has announced that an opposition MP will be allowed to table a motion for debate on the phone hacking scandal.
In a statement to MPs just after PMQs this afternoon, Mr Speaker said that Chris Bryant (Lab, Rhondda), whose phone was targeted by hackers, had written to him.
The Speaker said he decided "it is a matter of precendence under the rules" and the debate will be on the order paper for tomorrow.
Opposition MPs were hoping to grill the prime minister over the hacking - his head of communications Andy Coulson has been implicated but denies wrongdoing.
However, David Cameron was absent from PMQs after his father suffered a stroke.
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