Standing Orders (Public Business)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:04 pm on 22 October 2015.

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Photo of Kevin Brennan Kevin Brennan Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) 2:04, 22 October 2015

My hon. Friend has studied this very closely. Can he answer the point I was trying to make earlier? How can it possibly be envisaged that this will not interfere with the Prime Minister’s ability to make a Crown appointment of a Minister, when any Minister from a Welsh constituency, for example, who is appointed a Minister to a Department would be unable to participate in the Committee stage of a Bill he was promoting in Parliament? Is that not a nonsense?