HC Deb 05 February 1958 vol 581 c1192
Mr. Chetwynd

On a point of order. May I raise a point about the transfer of Question No. 90 from the Minister of Defence, to whom it was originally set down, to the Secretary of State for Air? It concerns the establishment of missile bases in the North-East. I notice from the Order Paper that almost similar Questions are set down at Nos. 52 and 53 and are still left with the Minister of Defence. I should like to ask for an explanation why my Question has been postponed. Is there any recorded case of a Question being transferred to a Minister who will reply earlier than the reply would otherwise have been given? Are not all these transfers of Questions, putting them right at the end, carried out because there is then very little chance of the hon. Member being given an answer? May I be given an explanation?

Mr. Speaker

I am afraid that I cannot satisfy the hon. Member because I have nothing to do with these transfers. The most helpful suggestion which I can make to him is that he should take the matter up with the Minister concerned, to whom the Question was addressed, and seek an explanation from him.