HC Deb 24 May 1883 vol 279 c782
MR. STEWART MACLIVER

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, If he will take into consideration whether the time has not arrived for revising the present system of putting Questions in the House, so as to limit the number of Questions at each sitting; and, whether, with a view to facilitate Public Business at the opening of the House, a new arrangement could be made for answering Questions?

MR. O'DONNELL,

at the same time, asked whether it was the intention of the Government also to consider whether the time had not arrived for revising the present system of giving answers to Questions.

MR. GLADSTONE

I do not think it would be expedient that I should re-open, at the present moment, this important part of the question of Procedure.