HC Deb 08 December 1938 vol 342 cc1368-9
Mr. De la Bère

I desire to raise a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I wish the House to know that I have at all times the greatest deference and respect to any Rulings you may give from the Chair. The position is that yesterday I put in two requests at the Table that Motions standing in my name should be put upon the Paper, and the Table replied that Mr. Speaker had ruled that, in view of the words of the Prime Minister, that there would not be time for a question dealing with an entirely different matter, they would not be allowed. I only wish to say that I should not like Members of this House to think that I was being deterred from asking questions by any lack of courage or determination to do the wholehearted best I can for the agricultural community.

Mr. Speaker

The hon. Member, if I remember rightly, had a series of questions down referring more or less to the same subject, asking for time for different Motions which he had on the Paper to be discussed. The Prime Minister gave the answer more than once to the effect that he would remind my hon. Friend that there was no provision under Standing Orders except for their discussion on a Private Member's Motion. I understood that to apply to all those Motions which the hon. Member had put down. Whether it referred to one Motion or another, I did not think that it was right that I should allow the same question to be put on the Paper several times.

Mr. Thurtle

Do you not think, Mr. Speaker, arising from your statement, that the Prime Minister is already aware of the acute dissatisfaction under which the hon. Member for Evesham (Mr. De la Bère) is suffering?

Mr. Speaker

I have noticed that myself.