Water Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:04 pm on 5 November 2003.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling Shadow Minister (Education) 4:04, 5 November 2003

Indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Let me rephrase my remarks. Does my hon. Friend agree that Ministers' motivations in selecting the timetable might be more dependable were the calendar packed with business? As we saw yesterday and see today, many parts of the parliamentary calendar are allocated to Adjournment debates, for example. Does he agree that if Ministers wanted to make time available, it would be easy for them to do so in the next few days?