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Natascha Engel Excerpts

Tuesday 20th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)]

Order. Before I call the Chair of the Select Committee, I point out that we have less than three hours left and more than 50 Members wishing to catch my eye. Dropping the speech limit down to two or three minutes seems ridiculous at this stage. There will also be a maiden speech following the contribution of the Chair of the Select Committee, and I do not want to impose a limit until after that. Can we please keep interventions to an absolute minimum and speeches as short as possible, so that I can put the time limit on as late as possible? With that, I call Frank Field.

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[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)]

Order. I am very sorry to say that I am going to impose a five-minute speech limit from now on.

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[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)]

Order. The list of speakers seems to be growing rather than shrinking and almost 40 Members still want to speak, so before I call the next speaker I shall drop the time limit down to three minutes in the hope we can get as many in as possible.