Points of Order Debate

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Points of Order

Aidan Burley Excerpts
Monday 14th November 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Aidan Burley Portrait Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase) (Con)
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I bring to your attention the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne) and the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves)—I have notified them in advance—and seek your guidance on whether a breach of the code of conduct might have occurred during the passage of the Pensions Bill? This follows—

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for advance notice of his purported point of order, a welcome courtesy that might not have helped his cause. If, as I believe to be the case, he wishes to raise a matter relating to the code of conduct—

Aidan Burley Portrait Mr Burley
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indicated assent.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am grateful for his nod of assent. He should raise such a matter with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and not—I underline not—as I have had occasion to say before, as a point of order for me.