Woke to find a freezing fog had enveloped much of the south of the country. After a couple of hours in the office, I headed to London for another week of politics. With the Supreme Court decision on triggering Article 50 due tomorrow, it's going to be an interesting week. Today, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon had been called to the Chamber to clarify the leaked news that one of our Trident missiles had gone rogue during a test off Florida last June. There was a lot of noise about this from the Opposition, with accusations of a cover-up, encouraged by the PM's interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday, when she refused to comment on the matter, saying it was in the interest of national security. Well, of course it was, and Labour would have behaved in the same way that the Government had. As I said in the Chamber, you don't give succour to the enemy by telling them that your deterrent does not work. The fact is that in most tests it does and no weapons system is infallible. I am more than confident that the Government has rectified whatever the problem was, not least by deciding to commission four new nuclear submarines to carry our deterrent. Regrettably, I could not remain in the Chamber for the Statement on our industrial strategy by the very able Secretary of State Greg Clark. In short, Mrs May had said in a speech earlier that she believed Government had more of a role to play in industry, and I concur. If we do not modernise, train our workforce and adopt the latest technology, the UK will shrivel on the vine and that's the last thing we want, especially as we leave the EU. Mr Clark announced ten pillars around which the Government's strategy is structured. They are: investing in science, research and innovation; developing skills; upgrading infrastructure; supporting businesses to start and grow; improving procurement; encouraging trade and inward investment; delivering affordable energy and clean growth; cultivating world-leading sectors; driving growth across the whole country; and creating the right institutions to bring together sectors and places. Can't disagree with any of those. Further measures include overhauling technical education, including pumping £170 million of capital funding to set up institutes of technology to deliver education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects. Again, I entirely agree, and welcome the investment in technology colleges, which are so severely lacking. While Mr Clark was making his Statement, I was in my office preparing to speak in the local government funding debate. I came back to the Chamber at about 1700 and settled down to be called. We each had about 10 minutes each and the debate went on to 2200, after which there was no vote, the Opposition supporting the devolution of local government funding in principle. My speech is on the website and I highlighted some concerns expressed to me during my research before the debate.