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Watching the Treasury Select Committee meeting in the Stormont Senate chamber this morning I was somewhat surprised to hear the Chairman, John McFall, giving me a name check. He told witnesses that I'd asked him whether the hearing on the regional impact of the credit crunch would turn into "a riot".

This came as news to me as I hadn't interviewed Mr McFall. A short process of elimination revealed the questioner to be Mark Simpson (my much better looking doppelganger) who had asked whether the hearing might become "a shouting match".

In the end the meeting seemed fairly calm. The MPs heard from local business people suffering from the lack of credit provided by local banks and several savers hit by the collapse of the Presbyterian Mutual Society. The MPs advised the PMS savers to form a web based action group, although I think the savers would rather hear that Gordon Brown or Alastair Darling is ready to throw them a lifeline.

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