§ Mr. CLOUGHMay I ask, Mr. Speaker, whether, in view of the fact that the militant suffragettes have abandoned their disorderly tactics, you can now see your way to so relax the regulations regarding the Ladies' Gallery that Members may procure the admission of their lady friends as well as of their relatives?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe vision of the lady in the ventilating shaft crosses my mind. I do not know whether I can, under these circumstances, say that the militant suffragettes have abandoned their disorderly tactics, but I can assure the hon. Member that I am very anxious to return to the old state of affairs in the Ladies' Gallery, and I will endeavour to collect the views of Members of the House as to whether the time has now arrived when we might revert to it.