Points of Order Debate

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Fiona O'Donnell

Main Page: Fiona O'Donnell (Labour - East Lothian)
Monday 26th March 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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No.

If there are no further points of order—

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I beg the hon. Lady’s pardon.

Fiona O'Donnell Portrait Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian) (Lab)
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is my first point of order, so I understand why something so uncharacteristic might have slipped your eye. Will you urge the Cabinet Secretary to hurry back to the House, because in answer to one question he described the Prime Minister’s flat in No. 10 Downing street as private property? Have the Government sold off part of No. 10, or did he misinform the House?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I will not continue the exchanges that took place earlier and will not urge the Minister for the Cabinet Office to hurry back to the Chamber. I sense that the hon. Lady’s point of order is really a rhetorical question and hope that I can be forgiven for making the point in passing, which is simply a statement of fact, that the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr Maude), although he occupies a high office in the Government, is not the Cabinet Secretary.