§ Mr. MadelOn a point of order, Mr. Speaker. By ten minutes past three today we had reached only Question No. 11. One reason was that the Minister of State gave a very long Answer to Question No. 7, which was followed by an equally lengthy supplementary question by the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Luard). I wonder whether you could ask Ministers who intend to give Answers of considerable length to provide them in the form of statements at the end of Question Time, otherwise Question Time becomes a seminar.
§ Mr. SpeakerI am sure that that will be noted. My only hope is that both Questions and Answers will be brief. Many of them are much too long.