§ Mrs. DunwoodyOn a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask for your protection and guidance? As reported at col. 1417 of the Official Report for Thursday 5th February, the Leader of the House, in announcing the business for this week, said that on Thursday there would be a motion on EEC documents on agriculture. These documents were not available in the Vote Office on Friday. There was no indication from the announcement by the Leader of the House which documents are to be debated. Hon. Members will not have that information officially until the Order Paper is printed on Thursday. The documents concerned are the price proposals for 1976–77 for the common agricultural policy, which is about the most important thing in the European Community. These documents run to two volumes. Any Member wanting to take them out of the Vote Office on Thursday morning will have a hell of a lot of reading to do between then and the debate in the evening.
There is another problem. Some of us are members of the Committee on Agriculture of the EEC Parliament. We have been seeking to represent the views of this House on these documents at four separate meetings. On Thursday we shall be at Strasbourg voting on these very proposals. We shall therefore be unable to take part in the debate.
§ Mr. SpeakerThe hon. Lady can always look to me for protection and guidance. The points she has raised are matters for the Government in the arrangement of their business.
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