Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill

Nigel Evans Excerpts

Friday 21st January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Sarah Newton]

Does my hon. Friend agree that we have rightly, as a coalition Government, focused on wanting to support free enterprise, to create a lot more jobs in the private—

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. The hon. Lady should be speaking through the Chair. I find it difficult to hear otherwise.

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[Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Further to my point of order earlier this morning, is this not just one more example of the filibustering and archaic procedures that are preventing genuine private Members’ Bills from receiving scrutiny in Committee?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

I know how frustrating Fridays are for those who have Bills that are down the line, but my job in the Chair is, if a filibuster takes place, to stop it immediately. That is not the case and the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) is in order.

[Philip Davies]

I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I am glad that you think that the points that I have made are relevant to the Bill. I am genuinely disappointed that Opposition Members do not wish to engage in a debate. I thought that that was the whole point of Bills going through Parliament—that we debated them. When I have finished making the points I have to make I will, in customary fashion, sit down. I always thought that that was the way that debates worked in this place—that people spoke until they had finished and then they stopped.