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The following exchange during yesterday's debate on health much amused How Ridiculous.

Mr. Lansley: I am sure that the Secretary of State has added very little to the clarity, so let us see where we get to.

I should like to give the Secretary of State our thanks for the kind remarks that she directed to my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) and to Samantha. Opposition Members are delighted at the safe arrival of a baby boy for Samantha and David at St. Mary's, Paddington, this morning. If I may, I shall trespass a moment and also express our good wishes to the family of my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie) and their baby boy; to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands), who has a baby girl; and, in expectation, to my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies). Opposition Members are doing our bit to defuse the demographic time bomb.

David Taylor: They are all in labour wards.

Mr. Lansley: Better than the Labour party.