§ Mr. Maxwell HyslopOn a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention, and ask that a correction be made in tomorrow's OFFICIAL REPORT. to an unusual series of mistakes in c. 689 of today's HANSARD.
Following an intervention by the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), a sentence of my speech has been omitted, and the rest of my speech has been attributed to the hon. Gentleman.
§ Mr. SpeakerI am sorry that the hon. Member should have been misreported in this way. An intervention has been spatchcocked into his speech, or part of his speech has been spatchcocked into the intervention of the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), and part has been omitted.
The Editor of the OFFICIAL REPORT discovered this error this morning and wrote to me to express his regret and his intention to put in an erratum tomorrow. I apologise to the hon. Member for the error. It will be corrected in the bound OFFICIAL REPORT, and, as I have said, an erratum will appear in today's OFFICIAL REPORT.
This is rather unfortunate. It seems almost as though the Official Reporters have been embarrassed by the compliments we paid them yesterday.