§ Sir FREDERICK BANBURYMr. Speaker, may I ask your ruling on a point relating to the ticketing of seats? I understand that some Members are in the habit of coming down and filling up seven or eight cards with the names of their Friends and putting them on seats. I want to know whether it is not the fact that the only way a Member can secure a seat is by coming down himself and writing his name on a card, and in addition being himself present at prayers?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Baronet is quite correct. The rule is, "One Member, one seat." If the hon. Baronet will look at one of the cards he will see that it is clearly stated at the bottom that a Member is only entitled to secure his own seat. May I also remind the Members of the House of the fact which, I believe, they sometimes omit to notice, that a card only retains the seat provided the Member does not quit the precincts of the House?
§ Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTSMay I ask whether it is in Order for a policeman to put a card on a seat on behalf of a Member?
§ Mr. SPEAKERCertainly not; I think the Member should put his own card on the seat. The rule is, "One Member, one seat," not one policeman, one seat.