§ Colonel WOODCOCKMay I ask your advice Mr. Speaker, on a matter which affects me personally, and of which I have only just heard, in connection with Standing Committee B? I see that on the Order Paper my name is associated with Amendments submitted by several other hon. Members with which., I am quite sure, I should be ashamed to be connected. I want to ask what redress I have got in this matter. I understand that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) has used my name for his Amendments, inadvertently I hope, and I wish to dissociate myself from them, because I should not like to be connected with them.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODBefore you reply, Mr. Speaker, may I ask whether I have any legal or other remedy against the hon. and gallant Member for the Everton Division (Colonel Woodcock), who has purloined, annexed and appropriated my best Amendments?
§ Mr. SPEAKERI think it would be a good thing if the House would return to individual Amendments rather than having these syndicated bunches of them, as has become the practice lately.
§ Colonel WOODCOCKI wish to dissociate myself from the Amendments.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODPerhaps I ought to explain that the fault lies in my handwriting. My writing of "Wedgwood" was taken for "Woodcock."
§ Mr. SPEAKERI can commiserate with both hon. Members.
§ GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (CIVIL SERVICES) BILL [Lords].
§ Reported, without Amendment, from Standing Committee B.
§ Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.
§ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Standing Committee to be printed.
§ Bill, not amended (in the Standing Committee), to be taken into consideration To-morrow.