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Points of Order

Anne Main Excerpts
Tuesday 12th July 2011

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order and for giving me advance notice of it. He came into the House long before I did; he is a seasoned campaigner and a man of great wisdom and experience. He will therefore know that I am not responsible—I say this with some relief—for anything that the Prime Minister might say or do. That is well beyond my ken. The right hon. Gentleman has placed his concerns on the record, and I am sure that he will find other methods, through the use of the Order Paper and other parliamentary processes, of further registering his views and probing the Prime Minister.

Anne Main Portrait Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con)
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am seeking your guidance because we are due to have an Opposition day debate tomorrow whose title is as yet totally unspecified. That means that members of the public who wish to attend the debate will have had no notice of the subject, and hon. Members who might wish to prepare for the debate have no cognisance of it. I understand that 48 hours’ notice is normally given of such debates and their titles. May we seek your guidance on why that courtesy is not being extended to us?

Oliver Heald Portrait Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (Con)
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Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker.