Up early and into the office until 1100 when I drove to London. The House business started with Home Office Questions, where I had secured the third one. I asked what steps the Department was taking to encourage greater collaboration between police and fire services. My follow-up question asked whether the Minister could reassure the House that this way of reorganising our emergency services would not destroy their integrity. He said he could and that they would be regularly inspected. I hope he is right. I can see this working in some cases and proving a disaster in others. After Questions, which lasted more than an hour, we moved on to an Urgent Question about the state of the NHS. Minister Philip Dunne took the session, the Secretary of State being absent and learning of his fate at No 10 as the reshuffle moved on. Mr Dunne is a quite excellent Minister and dealt with a challenging hour or so very well. Despite leaping up and down in an attempt to catch the Speaker's eye, I failed to do so. I find it hard enough to get called as it is so, perhaps having asked a question in the earlier session, I should not have been surprised. I returned to my office at about 1700 and spent the next five hours working on a range of constituency matters. Two votes just after 2200 and then home for a late supper.