New Clause 20 — Combination of polls

Part of Speaker's Statement – in the House of Commons at 7:15 pm on 25 October 2010.

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Photo of Fiona Mactaggart Fiona Mactaggart Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) 7:15, 25 October 2010

On a point of order, Mr Streeter. I have participated in many of the debates on this Bill, but it has been drawn to my attention that the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, Mr Harper suggested that I had earlier today requested that there be fewer hours spent scrutinising this Bill. What I specifically said was that there should be fewer hours after 10 pm spent scrutinising this Bill, and we would have been able to achieve that had he and his colleagues acceded to the Opposition request for an additional day to debate it.