PETER Luff was this week left wondering if he had upset the people who compile the order papers and lists of written questions at Westminster.

Because they re-named him Mr Peter Huff. Officially.

Normally, Peter would have put it down to a simple slip of the keyboard.

But, on the day before the offending list of amendments was published, he had indeed been in a huff.

And he thought they could be getting their own back.

The staff in the table office have to be very strict with MPs to prevent, for example, the same written question being asked again and again.

This is to prevent a raft of MPs from asking the same planted question to repeatedly show the Government in a good - or bad - light.

So, when Peter tried to put down a question about the deployment of British troops to Afghanistan, they said no - arguing too many similar questions had been asked.

The MP was not happy with this, pointing out he had thought up the question himself, it was a very important issue and he wanted to ask it.

A robust exchange of views followed and then, on the next day, his name changed.

It was listed correctly on the first dozen or so occasions it appeared - which was in moving amendments to the Tax Credits Bill.

(As a Treasury whip, this is one of his responsibilities.)

But then, right at the back of the order paper, he was in a Huff.

Peter said: "Given what had gone before, I did wonder if it had been done on purpose and I went back to ask them.

"They reassured me that was not the case, though, and that it was an innocent mistake.

"We're all friends again and they have said that it will not happen again. My name has been restored to its former glory!"