HC Deb 27 February 1893 vol 9 cc437-8
MR. EVERETT (Suffolk, Woodbridge)

had the following question on the Paper:— To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in order to enable Members, and especially inexperienced Members, more easily to follow the business of the House each day, he will take steps to have the statement of that business with which Members are furnished day by day placed upon the Paper in the order in which that business will be taken? The hon. Member said, I have received a letter from the Prime Minister, in which it is pointed out that the subject of the question is rather a matter for the decision of the Clerk at the Table. May I humbly submit to Sir Reginald Palgrave that it would be greatly for the convenience of the new Members if the business were shown in its proper order at the top of the "Orders of the Day."

MR. W. E. GLADSTONE

I may say I took the opportunity of representing to my hon. Friend that I was quite certain that if, without occupying the time of the House by any question or discussion as to the arrangement of the Paper, he would communicate with the authorities, every attention would be paid to any representation he might make. I took that course, inasmuch as, if I had answered the question, it might have looked like a disposition on the part of the Government to take into their own hands matters that really belong to the authorities of the House.