Nadine Dorries makes untrue claims on the BBC

The Independent Conservative MP, Nadine Dorries, claimed on a film for the BBC's Sunday Politics that there had been "no legislation" before the Commons while she was in the jungle was simply untrue:

• 6th November: European Union (Croatian Accession & Irish Protocol) Bill
• 8th November: 6 Private Members Bills
• 19th November: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill also Draft Care & Support Bill
• 20th November: HGV Road Users Bill also the Civil Aviation Bill
• 22nd November: Prevention of Terrorism (Amendment) order

So five government Bills plus six Private Members Bills she also missed a large number of votes. Not only on Government Bills but opposition led motions and also missed fourteen separate question time sessions.

She also claimed that other than going to the jungle "I have never taken a single day away from parliament" that one wasn't true either:

Source – Register of Members’ Interests, Nadine Dorries: 11-15 June 2006, to Israel hosted by Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). CFI contributed the costs of flights, accommodation and some meals. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Official Guests Department) contributed to the costs of travel inside Israel, some accommodation and meals. (Registered 29 June 2006)

Parliament was in session between the 12th and 15th June, 2006. Matters debated that week, while Ms Dorries was away on the jolly she appears to of forgotten about - included:

• the Electoral Administration Bill 
• Lords amendments to the Work and Families Bill 
• the Fraud Bill
• A lengthy ‘European Affairs’ debate on the fallout from the failure of the EU to push through its constitutional treaty, which took place in advance of discussions at the European Council on what would eventually become the Lisbon Treaty.

The BBC should during the Daily Politics tomorrow correct the record as what Ms Dorries claimed was completely untrue but then she says her blog is "70% fiction" now we must assume that is the case whenever she speaks.