§ Mr. Anthony Kershaw (Stroud)On a point of order. May we have some assurance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the Order Paper for morning sessions will not be overloaded as it has been? I have sat here all Monday and now all Wednesday waiting to speak on the Gloucester Order, if I am successful in catching your eye. The Minister who is due to reply to me has sat here all morning waiting to reply. There was obviously not a cat in hell's chance of our getting on, yet we have all had to be here. Cannot business be arranged more evenly in the mornings, so that hon. Members and Ministers do not waste their time waiting to speak when they know that they never will?
§ Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)I am sorry, but I cannot help the hon. Member. The Chair does not control the timetable. The Government do that.
§ Mr. Eric S. Heffer (Liverpool, Walton)Does this not indicate that we should ask the Select Committee on Procedure to deal with this point, so that more time can be made available to discuss matters which hon. Members opposite want to discuss?
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerThat is not a point of order for the Chair. The hon. Member has other means of expressing that view.
§ Mr. KershawThere is a special urgency about Prayers, Mr. Deputy Speaker. They have to be reached by a certain date. The Gloucester Order must be discussed in this House by Friday or it will not be discussed at all. That gives a certain discipline to the matter, which I am sure the Leader of the House would like to consider.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerThat is not a point of order for the Chair. It may be more appropriate for the Leader of the House to refer to it in a business statement.