Former MP for Southampton
Did not the Minister make it perfectly clear that these proposals require legislation and is not a discussion of them out of Order altogether to-day?
The Minister made it perfectly clear that the proposals to which the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) referred would require legislation. Would not that put them entirely out of Order to-day?
Is not this the Supply Vote for Health Services which are already in being, and not for future proposals?
Is not the hon. Gentleman exaggerating? It is not altogether a poverty disease. People who are quite well off suffer from tuberculosis.
On a point of Order. Is it in Order to discuss the Government's health proposals on a Supply Day? I think you, Sir, have given a Ruling on the matter.
I submit that the hon. Member's Statements have nothing to do with the subject matter of the Vote.
On a point of Order. I believe this question has been raised with Mr. Speaker, and that Mr. Speaker gave a Ruling that the proposals referred to by the hon. Lady involve future legislation, and that references to these proposals should be very brief indeed.
I object to the word "stooge" as being unparliamentary, and I must ask the hon. Lady to withdraw it. I will also ask the House to believe that I have never acted as a stooge to anyone, certainly not to the Minister of Health.
