QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER (Hansard, 6 March 1969)

§ Sir W. Bromley-Davenport
On a point of order. May I ask a question further to that asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey)? [Interruption.] We have had a quarter of an hour for the Prime Minister's Questions. We have been lucky to get through five evasive Answers——

Hon. Members
Three.

§ Sir W. Bromley-Davenport
The right hon. Gentleman coupled two together.

§ Mr. Speaker
Order. The House must not assist the hon. and gallant Gentleman to put his point of order.

§ Sir W. Bromley-Davenport
I appreciate your help, which I badly need, Mr. Speaker.
673 To be constructive, would it not be possible to get the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary to answer Questions instead of the Prime Minister? I have been bursting to ask a supplementary to Question No. 4, which I cannot now have answered.

§ Mr. Speaker
Order. This is a point which was raised by one of the hon. and gallant Gentleman's hon. Friends two weeks ago. Repetition of a false point of order does not make it a true point of order. Questions to the Prime Minister are important. There are many supplementaries and a Minister has the right to answer Questions in the way he likes. It is not a point of order.

§ Sir W. Bromley-Davenport
Further to that point of order——

§ Mr. Speaker
Order. Gestures have no effect upon me.

§ Sir W. Bromley-Davenport
On a new point of order. May I, first, apologise to you, Mr. Speaker, in that I was unable to hear a single word of what you have said. We are not objecting to the number of hon. Members who are asked to ask supplementaries. What we object to is the amount of "flannel" that comes from the Prime Minister.

§ Mr. Speaker
Order. To the second point that the hon. and gallant Gentleman has raised, my answer, which he will read in HANSARD tomorrow, with my previous one, is that it is not a point of order.