Ivana Bacik (Independent)

I will take that on board. Colleagues have already mentioned the Lisbon treaty and like many others I voted "Yes" in spite of the Government campaign rather than because of it. In a debate in this House before the treaty referendum took place I made the point to the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs that the Government campaign had been badly run and that in particular there was an absence of women's voices on the part of the Government's "Yes" campaign. As people on the Government side have pointed out, there are three women Ministers in Cabinet. Three out of 15 is just 20% but far less than 20% of the Ministers speaking on the Lisbon treaty were female.