asked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, whether, in view of the fact that an hon. Member who entertains a female guest at dinner has to pay more than twice as much as when he entertains a male guest, he will so adjust the prices of meals as to secure prandial equality for the sexes in the dining rooms of this House?

I think the hon. Member is under a misapprehension. I have carefully examined our prices and arrangements, and I cannot find any trace of those "prandial inequalities for the sexes" to which he refers, and which, should they ever exist, I would gladly join him in deprecating.