§ Lord SandysMy Lords, at a convenient moment after 3.30 this afternoon my noble friend Lord Trenchard 1156 will, with the leave of the House, repeat a Statement that is to be made in another place on the Falkland Islands.
I think it might be helpful if, with the leave of the House, I could say a word about the second of our two short debates this afternoon, standing in the name of my noble friend Lord Chelwood, which, as the House will see, has attracted a considerable number of speakers. Following the generally accepted principle that the mover should be entitled to approximately 15 minutes and that the Minister should rise to reply not later than 20 minutes before the scheduled end of the debate, my calculations suggest that the other speakers should try to limit their speeches to about7½minutes. If they speak for any longer, they run the risk of depriving later speakers of their opportunity to speak.