§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Second Reading deferred till Friday 2 March.
§ Mr. Tony BanksOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have just heard the hon. Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) ostensibly speaking in favour of a Bill that the Minister said the Government supported but in fact deliberately talking it out. It appears from the Register of Members' Interests that the hon. Member has a number of interests in the medical industry. In the interests of honesty and straightforwardness, and so that we might all know the position when the hon. Member for Esher supposedly speaks in favour of a Bill but is quite obviously trying to talk it out, he should have declared his interest initially; otherwise we must suspect his motives.
§ Madam Deputy SpeakerThe point has been noted, and it is a matter of concern.
§ Mr. Ian Taylor (Esher)I have no representation for doctors and I have no representation which is relevant for declaration. All my interests are duly declared in the Register of Members' Interests. May I clarify the point? I welcomed the principle of the Bill—
§ Madam Deputy SpeakerOrder. We cannot continue to debate the Bill.
§ Mr. CorbynFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) said that he had no representation for doctors. However, in his declaration of interests, he is—
§ Madam Deputy SpeakerOrder. We have been through all that. The hon. Member for Esher has made his position clear.