HC Deb 12 March 1986 vol 93 cc1029-30 10.14 pm
Mr. Clement Freud (Cambridgeshire, North-East)

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. During the Division in the Aye Lobby, an hon. Member held up a notice which read, "Your help is urgently required at the Fulham by-election". Is it in order for an untruthful notice to be displayed? When I offered my help, it was refused. Secondly, is there any limit to the advertising that one might carry out? My daughter needs a British car with low mileage. I wonder whether it would be in order if I held up a notice to that effect during the next Division.

Mr. Speaker

I thought that the hon. Gentleman said that he would raise a genuine point of order. I am not certain that his point of order is all that genuine, but it has the ring of truth about it.

Mr. Richard Hickmet (Glanford and Scunthorpe)

Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it not be in order to make the point that the Liberal party in Fulham needs all the help that it can get?

Mr. Speaker

I think that we should proceed with the next debate.