HC Deb 13 November 1989 vol 160 cc25-6
93. Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Lord President of the Council what steps he is taking to improve facilities in the House for the Prime Minister's press secretary.

Sir Geoffrey Howe

None, Sir.

Mr. Dalyell

As one of the House of Common's best remembered Law Officers, does the Lord President think it proper that we should give House room to a civil servant whom Leon Brittan tells us behaved totally improperly in the matter of the Law Officer's letter—unless, that is, the Prime Minister on 27 January did something which, were I to name it, would lead to my being suspended for 20 days?

Sir Geoffrey Howe

The hon. Gentleman is the only hon. Member who continues to have that particular obsession, although the House may be glad that it has replaced the Belgrano in his mind. I invite him to give up this obsession as decisively as he gave up the other.