HC Deb 04 March 1925 vol 181 cc443-4
Sir JAMES REMNANT

May I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, the desirability of extending the limitations which you, two or three years ago, to the great advantage of the House, put upon the number of questions allowed to be asked by any single Member on any particular day? Would it not be possible to extend that limitation to the number of supplementary questions, because it is almost impossible for those questions that are on the Paper, say, beyond No. 70, to be called on the day on which they appear on the Paper, in view of the large number of supplementary questions, amounting in some cases to five or six by a single _Member'?

Mr. SPEAKER

I am very reluctant to impose a limit on supplementary questions. To-day, 84 questions have been dealt with, but I must trust, as I have done in the past, to hon. Members to remember that there are others—

Mr. KIRKOOD

Why look at us, Mr. Speaker?

Mr. SPEAKER

I am very sorry that the hon. Member should take that remark as having a, personal application. It is not so meant. I can only ask hon. Members to have consideration one for another.

Mr. SCRYMGEOUR

I would like to suggest that in dealing with this matter the Ministers might be somewhat more liberal with their answers.

Mr. SPEAKER

I sometimes think that Ministers are too argumentative.