Editing Kim Howells (section)

===Parliamentary challenges===
In February 2006, he was the subject of a complaint from [[Paul Flynn (politician)|Paul Flynn]] MP after he mocked Mr Flynn's attitude towards the UK's Afghan drug policy:

{{quote|It is not enough to assume that if people eat the right kind of [[muesli]], go to first nights of [[Harold Pinter]] revivals and read ''[[The Independent]]'' occasionally, the drug barons of [[Afghanistan]] will go away. They will not.<ref>{{cite news | title=Minister's muesli jibe angers MP | date=10 February 2006 | access-date=23 July 2006 | publisher=[[BBC]] | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4701036.stm}}</ref>}}

On 22 November 2006, it was announced that on a recent visit to Iraq his helicopter was involved in an incident as it left the city of [[Basra]] with witnesses claiming shots were fired at the aircraft.