Finance [Money]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 April 1970.

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Photo of Dr Horace King Dr Horace King , Southampton, Itchen 12:00, 20 April 1970

I am grateful to the hon. Member for putting the point so clearly. [Laughter] Order. The Chair is dealing with this matter seriously. The decision is a difficult one to make. It may be that if, in the last seconds before ten o'clock, I called an hon. Member to use the 15 seconds on a point of order, somebody would have moved the Closure and the result would have been the same. It is a difficult matter to decide what to do with the 15 seconds before ten o'clock, knowing that 15 seconds after ten o'clock could lose a Motion which was before the House. It is a serious and difficult point.