HC Deb 02 December 1987 vol 123 cc1069-70

Motion made, and Question put, That Mr. Dennis Canavan, Mr. David Howell, Mr. Michael Jopling, Mr. Ivan Lawrence, Mr. Jim Lester, Mr. Ted Rowlands, Mr. Peter Shore, Mr. Ian Taylor, Mr. Peter Temple-Morris, Mr. Bowen Wells and Mr. Michael Welsh be members of the Foreign Affairs Committee.—[Sir Marcus Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]

The House proceeded to a Division:

Mr. Hal Miller (Bromsgrove) (seated and covered)

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order to submit a manuscript amendment, suggesting that my hon. Friends the Members for Wellingborough (Mr. Fry) and for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) be omitted from motions put forward by the Committee of Selection as they apparently are no longer here to vote or to show interest in the proceedings?

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Paul Dean)

I am not prepared to accept manuscript amendments along those lines.

The House having divided:Ayes 113, Noes 16.

Question accordingly agreed to.

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