Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Debate between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Mark Prisk

Wednesday 16th July 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford) (Con)]

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Opposition Front-Bench team have intervened on four separate occasions on Back Benchers. Is it in order for the Front-Bench team, who are about to have 10 minutes at the end of the debate, to intervene on four separate occasions, meaning that colleagues are having their chance even to speak limited?

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)]

It is, of course, in order, because the person who has the Floor can take an intervention whenever she wishes to do so. But one would expect discretion from the Front Benchers. Now, we were halfway through a very short intervention—