An early morning run, croissant and coffee, review of the papers and straight into a pile of correspondence and emails which kept me out of trouble into PMQs.
The NHS took centre stage this week, which was perhaps unwise of Mr Miliband when you take into account the problems the NHS is facing in Labour-run Wales. The Prime Minister gave as good as he got and, again, came out on top. Mr Cameron is impressive on his feet, an art that I suspect few MPs have when in the PMQs' pressure-cooker.
A working sandwich lunch before our Efra select committee, which continues to look into food security. Today we took oral evidence from the entertaining food critic Jay Rayner, Mark Linehan, from the Sustainable Restaurant Association, three senior executives from the superstore Morrisons, Lindsay Boswell, the CEO of FareShare, and David McAuley and Adrian Curtis from the Trussell Trust.
Our evidence gathering was looking at waste in the food industry, affordability and eating habits etc. It was a very interesting session, taken in public. A lot is being done to combat food waste, although it is a live issue.
We learnt that nationally 8.3 million tonnes of food waste is produced every year at a cost of £12.5 billion (or almost £60 a month to the average family). This has declined by 21 per cent (1.1 million tonnes per annum) since 2007. Some staggering statistics.
Afterwards, we listened to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at a meeting of the '22 Committee, which was in confidence. He was in buoyant form.
Back to the office to prepare further for tomorrow's debate on repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and then to join a colleague for a regular weekly meeting.
There was no vote at 1900 so worked on to 1945 and then went to supper with my daughter.