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This is the moment health secretary and MP for South West Surrey Jeremy Hunt gets a ticking off from the Speaker of the House of Commons for "fiddling" with his mobile phone during a debate.

Speaker John Bercow called out the Conservative MP for his "rank discourtesy" during a debate over the future of NHS bursaries on Wednesday.

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Just seconds after inviting the shadow health secretary, Labour's Heidi Alexander, to speak on the matter, Mr Bercow was forced to interrupt as a grinning Mr Hunt brazenly gesticulated with his phone in hand.

Mr Bercow said: "I do very gently say to the secretary of state... to sit there fiddling ostentatiously with an electronic device defines the established convention of the house that such devices should be used, and I remind members, without impairing parliamentary decorum."

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"They are impairing parliamentary decorum and in very simple terms, are being rank discourteous to the shadow secretary of state and to the house," Mr Bercow added.

"It's a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it."

Current Commons rules on the use of electronic devices in the chamber state handheld electronic devices (excluding laptops) may be used provided "they are silent and used in a way that does not impair decorum".

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It's the not the first technological blunder Mr Hunt has made, however.

In January, it was revealed that a judge ordered Mr Hunt to delete a tweet he ruled could have influenced the course of an NHS manslaughter trial.

And he also didn't quite seem to see the funny side when Channel 4's The Last Leg tried to crown him D**k of the Year earlier this year.

Video courtesy of Parliament Live TV.