Sir Rolf Williams: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that great numbers of hon. Members on this side would like to see the Highland Development Bill discussed on the Floor of the House? If the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) does not know how to get it here I will, if he sees me afterwards, give him a tip on how to do it.
Sir Rolf Williams: Would the right hon. Gentleman say when the House last sat in the morning and then carried on for the normal day?
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Sir Rolf Williams: My hon. Friend will be aware that the Government are allowing a free vote on the matter, so that it may not affect Ministers.
Sir Rolf Williams: I do not think that the suggestion which the hon. Gentleman makes now as to what the Government could have done is correct. They could not have sent the Bill back to the Committee to be continued with at the place where it had been left because, after the Resolution of Friday, 5th March, the Committee was discharged.
Sir Rolf Williams: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what steps he is taking to relieve local authorities of a further part of the burden of educational expenditure.
Sir Rolf Williams: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My Question, No. 50, is quite different from the other Questions the right hon. Gentleman proposes to answer. Would it be possible for him to answer Question No. 50 separately?
Sir Rolf Williams: Will the Prime Minister explain how it is that the disengagement policy—which was the policy of the party opposite—has now been dropped and no longer appears to be popular with him?
Sir Rolf Williams: May I raise a point on that, Dr. King? I notice that in the list which you so kindly put in the "No" Lobby you propose to call first Amendment, No.1 in clause 1, page 1, line 5, after "murder", insert: except a person previously convicted of murder who shall murder again"— and that Amendment No.4 in clause 1, page 1, line 5, after "murder", insert: except an already convicted murderer who,...
Sir Rolf Williams: With great respect, may I point out that Amendment No.1 is quite different from Amendment No.4. In the case of the first Amendment, a man may have committed murder and served his sentence and been released and then commit murder again. It is quite different from Amendment No.4.
Sir Rolf Williams: Further to that point of order—
Sir Rolf Williams: On a point of order. There is a rumour going around the benches that after the right hon. Lady has sat down the Patronage Secretary will move the Closure. It has been suggested to me that you will accept the Closure, Mr. Speaker. The right hon. Lady is making very provocative statements. Surely we should be given an opportunity to answer the statements that she is making in her speech?
Sir Rolf Williams: asked the Minister of Health whether he will ensure that sufficient finance is made available to the South-West Regional Hospital Board having regard to the need to expand the hospital facilities in that area.
Sir Rolf Williams: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that reply. He will be aware that I am particularly interested in an out-patient department of the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. Can he give me an assurance that the start of this department will not be delayed?
Sir Rolf Williams: I rise to an entirely different point of order, Dr. King. It concerns the whole proceedings of the House of Commons this morning. The House is sitting in Committee on the Floor at this moment and there is also Standing Committee C sitting upstairs. I have moved in that Committee that we should meet on Monday mornings instead of Wednesday mornings because it is so inconvenient for my hon....
Sir Rolf Williams: On a point of order. This is very important. I would not have raised the matter, but the bells failed in the Upper Committee Corridor during the last Division and many of my hon. Friends were not able to get to this Committee.
Sir Rolf Williams: Is the Leader of the House aware that yesterday morning there was chaos throughout the Palace of Westminster? There was a Committee upstairs considering a Private Member's Bill and a Committee of the whole House was considering the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Bill. In view of this confusion, which was directly the responsibility of the Leader of the House who has made a muck of...
Sir Rolf Williams: You will be out on your ear.
Sir Rolf Williams: Who did?