Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1973.
Sir Peter Emery
, Honiton
12:00,
19 November 1973
I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can get me at the Dispatch Box to make a decision which now has to be made by the board and my right hon. Friend.
If you've ever seen inside the Commons, you'll notice a large table in the middle - upon this table is a box, known as the dispatch box. When members of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet address the house, they speak from the dispatch box. There is a dispatch box for the government and for the opposition. Ministers and Shadow Ministers speak to the house from these boxes.
