Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 May 1952.
We are glad that you are calling the first Amendment and the consequential Amendments that go with it, Sir Charles, and I do not think my hon. Friends would object to discussing together the various Amendments which come a little later on and which are designed to make exceptions in a number of cases; but is it not rather unusual to make the condition of selection of a particular Amendment that we shall only divide on some other Amendment? I should have thought that that was rare. I do not recall ever having been confronted before with a decision of the Chairman to that effect, and I must say that we would wish to preserve our right to divide, if we think necessary, on these other Amendments.