Committee chairman James Arbuthnot, a Conservative MP, said the troops now faced a "significantly higher threat" in southern Iraq.

BBC: Soldiers now face a higher threat in southern Iraq, MPs say

Committee chairman James Arbuthnot described cyberspace as "a complex and rapidly changing environment".

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"Those who attend non-grammar schools achieve well below acceptable levels, " Mr Arbuthnot said.

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Ruth Lea, economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, says the phrase "the top 1%" should always take wealth into account.

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Mr Arbuthnot told BBC Radio 4's Today programme his committee had also recently visited British troops in Afghanistan and had similar concerns there.

BBC: Soldiers now face a higher threat in southern Iraq, MPs say

Mr Arbuthnot defended the policies and said those which had been introduced were proven by international standards to be the most effective in raising literacy and numeracy standards.

BBC: Education Committee

Its chairman, the Conservative MP James Arbuthnot, described it as a "bit of a shambles" and said it was "not the way the MoD should be making decisions".

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Addressing members of the education committee, Adrian Arbuthnot explained that, although trends over the past six years showed improvements, there had been a slow down in the speed of change.

BBC: Education Committee

The chair of the Defence Committee, James Arbuthnot, made a powerful case that defence deserved special treatment - and that it would be disrespectful to the armed forces to relegate discussion of these matters to Westminster Hall.

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Kitty had taken me for a walk to Youghal to visit my first cousin Shirley Arbuthnot, one year older than me, who lived in Myrtle Grove, a Tudor mansion within the ancient town walls where my mother had grown up.

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