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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Debate between Mark Prisk and Baroness Laing of Elderslie
Wednesday 16th July 2014

(10 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Prisk Portrait Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford) (Con)
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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?

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)
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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—