§ Mr. Peter Butler accordingly presented a Bill to create an arrestable offence of unlawful intrusion into designated educational premises: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 28 February, and to be printed [Bill 111].
§ Sir Donald Thompson (Calder Valley)On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I do not wish to quarrel with your decision on the point of order made earlier by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel), but it has been the practice recently for hon. Members to obtain a Minister's statement from the Vote Office as soon as he stands up in the House and fax it to their friends. Consequently, those friends have the whole statement 10 or 15 minutes before the Minister sits down. I assume that that is not the practice that you are trying to end.
§ Madam SpeakerNo. The practice that I deprecate is a Minister giving information to Conservative central office or Conservative candidates before giving it to the Scottish Grand Committee. That is it in a nutshell.