HC Deb 15 June 1939 vol 348 cc1515-6
Mr. Mander

May I call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to a matter arising out of Questions. This is the third successive Thursday on which questions to the Home Secretary have not been reached, and I ask you to be good enough to consider whether some system of rotation cannot be devised by which one would have an opportunity of questioning the Home Secretary from time to time?

Mr. Speaker

The remedy appears to be perfectly simple. We should get through questions quicker.

Mr. Thorne

May I ask the Prime Minister whether when he has a long statement to make he will consider making it at the end of Questions?

The Prime Minister

The hon. Member will notice that I have had two long statements to make to-day, and in those circumstances I thought it better to make the first statement earlier.

Mr. J. J. Davidson

Is it not your considered opinion, Mr. Speaker, that if the answers given by Ministers were more satisfactory, there would be fewer sup-plementaries?