§ Mr. Barry Fieldasked the Lord Privy Seal if he will consider issuing hon. Members with a world-wide wrist bleeper to enable Parliament to be recalled during the recess in the case of a national emergency.
§ Mr. WakehamNo. The Services Committee considered the question of radiopaging in its second report of 1986–87 (HC207). The Committee recommended against the House providing its own radiopaging service, but expressed the view that Members who wished to subscribe to such a service in connection with their parliamentary duties should be free to do so out of their office allowance.
My hon. Friend will no doubt wish to leave word as to his whereabouts with my right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary before he goes away.