Orders of the Day — Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1952.

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Photo of Mr David Maxwell Fyfe Mr David Maxwell Fyfe , Liverpool, West Derby 12:00, 27 November 1952

I do not know whether that is a point of order, but I am anxious to meet it. There are three Ministries concerned with this Regulation—the Home Department, as explosives authority; the Ministry of Supply, represented by the Parliamentary Secretary, who own a great part of the explosives; and the Ministry of Transport who deal with the harbour authorities, and so on. The Minister of Transport makes the order for us. I am sorry that we are not all represented, but two of us are here and I do not think that that is bad.