§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerSecond Reading what day? No day named.
§ Mr. Jeremy Corbyn (Islington, North)On a point or order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understand that the Commonwealth of Britain Bill, the Reform of the House of Lords Bill and the Commonwealth of Europe Bill all require that the Queen's consent be notified to the House. Have we received such a letter to tell us whether or not she is happy with them?
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerI regret to say that we did not reach that stage.
§ Mr. CorbynFurther to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I had understood that the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office would be telling us whether Her Majesty had agreed to the Bills in question. I am surprised that we have not heard anything about that today.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerAs we did not reach that stage, the right hon. Gentleman was not asked to do so.
§ Mr. Alfred Morris (Manchester, Wythenshawe)I rise on a point of order which I believe to be a valid and important one. Are we not, now that the proceedings of the House are televised, in an entirely new situation as far as individual and anonymous objections to Bills are concerned? It is possible for my constituents to see the hon. Member who objects but not to see the report of the objection in Hansard. It strikes me that we have not updated our procedures. I am naturally very concerned, as the author of the parent legislation, about the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Dr. Berry)—the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. The right hon. Gentleman has made his views known, and they will be recorded in Hansard. The Bill to which he refers has not yet been printed, so it is perhaps not surprising that an objection was voiced.
§ Mr. MorrisFurther to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it possible for the Select Committee on Procedure to look at what I think hon. Members on both sides of the House consider a very important issue?
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerThe Select Committee on Procedure can consider what it wishes to consider, and I am sure that its members and Chairman will read today's proceedings. I repeat, however, that, in the case to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, the Bill has not yet been printed.