§ Mr. Tam Dalyell accordingly presented a Bill to amend the Fair Trading Act 1973 to allow the courts further powers of interdict and injunction to prevent purchasers of assets of firms which are the subject of a potential enquiry by the Office of Fair Trading or the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from pre-empting possible decisions of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry arising from recommendations of the Commission: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 4 May and to be printed. [Bill 133.]
3.49 pm§ Mr. Richard Holt (Langbaurgh)On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, arising out of the presentation of the Bill by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell). Is it in order for a group such as the Amalgamated Engineering Union parliamentary Labour group to be a sponsor of a Bill in the House, because it must surely include Members of the other place as well? Would not the Bill's list of sponsors have to have that group removed, or should not the names of the individuals in it be submitted?
§ Mr. SpeakerOnly the names of the hon. Members that were given will go down on the Bill.
§ Mr. SpeakerThe hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) mentioned them.