§ 10.30 p.m.,
§ Mr. Ian Mikardo (Bethnal Green and Bow)With your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to present a petition from Miss Margaret Alison Brown who seeks leave, in accordance with the practices and principles of our procedure and precedents, to quote in connection with an action which is before the court passages from evidence submitted to one of the Select Committees of the House and from a speech made in the House by one of my right hon. Friends.
The petition is lengthy and the House might consider it adequate if I supplement the brief but I hope clear description that I have given of its contents by reading only the last. paragraph of the, petition. It states:
Wherefore, your petitioner prays that reference may be made in the action presently proceeding in the High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, referred to herein to the said Minutes of Evidence and transcript of the said speech and that leave be given to the proper Officers of the House formally to prove the same according to their competence.And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray.Ordered,That leave be given to the proper Officers of this House to attend the trial of the said action and to produce the said Minutes of Evidence and Report of Debate; and that leave be given for reference to be made to the said Minutes of Evidence and Report of Debate.—[Mr. Mikardo.]