Debates between Lindsay Hoyle and Roger Gale during the 2010-2015 Parliament

European Union (Referendum) Bill

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Roger Gale
Friday 17th October 2014

(10 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Roger Gale Portrait Sir Roger Gale (North Thanet) (Con)
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On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to raise that rare thing, a genuine point of order. In his opening remarks, my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) suggested that there might be attempts to frustrate the progress of the Bill through the House. One of those ways would be to prolong the debate on the Bill that is currently at the front of the queue in Committee. Will you confirm to me, as a member of the Speaker’s Panel of Chairs—I suspect that a nod from the Clerks will help—that it is in fact perfectly possible, should we choose to do so, for this House to set up a second Committee to consider the Bill?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
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As the hon. Gentleman knows, as a long-standing Member of this House, the answer is yes.