HC Deb 08 August 1966 vol 733 cc1010-1

The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

50. Mr. ARTHUR LEWIS

To ask the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the leaders of the Electrical Trades Union who support the Government's wage and salary standstill have voluntarily frozen a proposed increase in their salaries; and whether he will therefore meet and discuss with Mr. Sydney Greene, the General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, the possibility of him agreeing to forgo his proposed 25 per cent. increase in his salary for the period of the Government's wage and salary standstill.

Mr. John Hynd

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to Question No. 50, and ask for your guidance? To what extent is it in order for hon. Members to put down Questions with implied smears against named outside individuals and then not be present to put those Questions, leaving the Answer to the apparent obscurity of a Written Answer?

Mr. Speaker

There is some point in what the hon. Member has said, but it is not a point of order.

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