§ Mr. EmeryOn a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have waited until the end of Question Time to raise the matter. Would you inform the House and perhaps the Government that it is the normal practice in the House for Written Answers to Members' Questions to be lodged with those Members and usually in the Library from 2.30 p.m. onwards and that the Members should receive those Written Answers before they are put on the tape or before a major statement is made about any of those Written Answers? I refer particularly to an important matter on which I find it strange that the Government should refuse to make a statement 35 —the future investment policy of British Leyland. The Member concerned with that Question should have received the reply before it was put out on the tape. Would you also tell me whether the Minister of State, Department of Industry, has made a request to make a statement on this matter, which I am certain is what the House would have wanted?
§ Mr. SpeakerThe answer to the latter question is "No, Sir."
With regard to the first question, I believe that it is customary—it was when I was on the Benches—to have the Answer sent to the hon. Member concerned. But I do not know anything about the matter raised by the hon. Gentleman.