Mr Straw is due to visit the region again later this month to continue the dialogue he began at the height of the crisis.

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During committee stage debate on the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill on 26 January 2010, Justice Secretary Jack Straw told MPs that it was no longer acceptable for the remaining 92 hereditary peers to continue electing former hereditary peers back into the Lords.

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The Transport committee will continue its probe into the cost of motor insurance with evidence from former Home Secretary and Justice Secretary Jack Straw, and then from the Motor Accident Solicitors' Society, AXA UK, and former MP Andrew Dismore, who now represents the Access to Justice Action Group.

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