The chairman of the parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, Kim Howells,says the committee has looked into the issue and will continue to look at evidence put before it.

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But the level of criticism is growing here. The latest person to ask how much longer will British forces be deployed in Afghanistan is former Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells.

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However, Kim Howells had ruled out this option, favouring a radical overhaul to tackle "crazy bureaucracy".

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Only last month, the Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister Kim Howells underlined that the UN had given permission.

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But Labour former minister Kim Howells said Wales needed to break its "enormous dependence" on the public sector.

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