§ Mr. F. Noel-BakerOn a point of order. Many of my hon. Friends have found themselves in a difficulty, particularly now that transport is becoming a controversial matter. There were 63 Questions to the Minister of Transport today, and only 48 were reached. The Minister next comes to the top of the list some time after Christmas. He will be within reach of Oral Questions towards the end of December. This is a very unsatisfactory situation when there will certainly be a large volume of Questions to which we feel that Oral Answers should be available to hon. Members. Could the present order of the Questions on the Order Paper be considered to see whether we can have a greater opportunity of putting Oral Questions to the Minister?
§ Mr. G. BrownBefore you answer, Mr. Speaker, will you take note that, as a result of this arrangement today, we lost the Minister of Defence, who should have been tinder the hammer? If you do consider this arrangement of Questions between Ministers, will you arrange that the Minister of Defence does not get behind a Minister who is currently very controversial?
§ Mr. SpeakerI am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for illustrating the difficulty. Frankly, if one removes one target one will probably find that one is over-exposing or under-exposing another, but I will look at this question.