HC Deb 07 April 1989 vol 150 c545

Order for Second Reading read.

Hon. Members

Object.

Second Reading deferred till Friday 21 April.

Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have just been watching this procession of Bills. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Davis) has moved the Second Reading of a Bill to reduce the number of hours that junior doctors work. The hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones), a Government Whip, objected to the Bill, which is terrible——

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Harold Walker)

Order. Be that as it may, the hon. Gentleman will have to wait until Second Reading to express his views. Nothing was out of order.

Mr. Terry Davis (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)

Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This is an unusual situation. The Bill has already been passed in another place, where the Government neither opposed it nor objected to it. Is it not unusual for the Government to shelter behind procedure of this sort in order to thwart a worthwhile Bill's passage?

Mr. Deputy Speaker

Nothing out of order occurred.