Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 March 1964.
This is a serious matter when, because of the call of urgency, we have to depart from safeguarding procedures in the way of tendering. Would not the hon. Lady be right to apologise to the House because, obviously, the urgency in this case was because the Scottish Department had been dilatory and incompetent?