§ Mr. Gordon Wilson (Dundee, East)I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter requiring urgent examination, namely,
the dispute affecting the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail.The dispute affects Scotland's highest selling daily newspaper and the production of its sister newspaper, the Sunday Mail. The two newspapers are not affected by the general Fleet street crisis. The papers are printed in an up-to-date plant using modern technology. In 1986 their profits will approach £7 million. Their circulations are large and growing, with the Daily Record selling more than 750,000 copies daily.Because of the disruptive management by Mr. Robert Maxwell, who seeks to destroy the Scottish identity of the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, the future of those newspapers is in dispute. The Scottish community is up in arms about the matter. As there is no tradition of militancy involved in the production of these newspapers, as the dispute is continuing and as there are no signs that the parties will come together, I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to consider my application seriously.
§ Mr. SpeakerThe hon. Member asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he thinks should have urgent consideration, namely,
the dispute affecting the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail.I am afraid that I must give the hon. Member the same answer as I gave to the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape). I do not consider that the matter that he has raised is appropriate for discussion under Standing Order No. 10 and I cannot, therefore, submit his application to the House.