MR. MAC IVER,as a point of Order, asked the Speaker if it was not part of the unwritten law of Parliament that private Members should refrain from pressing on Ministers Questions which, in their discretion, it was not for the public interest should be answered; and also, if it was not part of the unwritten law of Parliament that Ministers who assumed to answer Questions should use reasonable endeavours to see that those answers were correct? The point on which he respectfully asked the judgment of the Speaker was whether the practice of making evasive and incorrect statements in reply to Questions was not disrespectful to Parliament and fraught with inconvenience.
§ MR. SPEAKERThe hon. Member is not asking me a Question on a point of Order now arising, and therefore I must respectfully decline to answer.