Arrangement of Business

Lord Geddes Excerpts

Tuesday 9th October 2012 Grand Committee

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Geddes)]

My Lords, before we commence, it might be for the convenience of noble Lords if I remind them that each debate is limited to one hour. If any of those debates should take less than one hour, the Grand Committee will adjourn for the balance of that 60 minutes. In the first debate, there are a large number of speakers and I have been asked to remind Back-Bench speakers that speeches are limited to four minutes, which means that when it says four on the time clock, you have had the four minutes.