In February 2010 Channel 4 broadcast a four-part series called Tower Block of Commons in which four MPs lived with council tenants on different estates in England.
Taking part along side Oaten were Tim Loughton, Austin Mitchell and Nadine Dorries, who replaced Iain Duncan Smith who left the programme early after his wife was diagnosed with cancer.
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