§ Mr. SpeakerThere are eight Notices of Returns standing on the Order Paper in the name of the Deputy-Chairman, to be moved before Questions. It has been the custom in former years to go through these Notices of Returns one by one, the Speaker reading out the title of each Return and, on occasion, the text, and the Deputy Chairman rising in his place to move it. The Returns, however, are entirely formal, consisting as they do of statistics intended to help Members generally. There would appear, therefore, to
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