§ Motion made, and Question proposed,
That Mr. Huw Edwards be discharged from the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons and Mr. David Drew be added to the Committee.—[Mr. Dowd.]
§ Mr. Owen Paterson (North Shropshire)On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Has there been any request by the Paymaster General to make a personal statement in view of the fact that he has been accused in an article published in Business Age—an influential business journal—of conniving in defrauding the Maxwell pension funds, an offence that would, if shown to be true, carry a potential sentence of imprisonment?