Energy Bill

John Bercow Excerpts

Wednesday 4th December 2013 Commons Chamber

Committee to withdraw immediately; reasons to be reported and communicated to the Lords.

[Mr Speaker]

I have now to announce the results of the deferred Divisions. On the question relating to the draft European Union (Definition of Treaties)(Colombia and Peru Trade Agreement) Order 2013, the Ayes were 333 and the Noes were 61, so the Ayes have it. On the question relating to the draft Categories of Gaming Machine (Amendment ) Regulations 2014, the Ayes were 322 and the Noes were 231, so the Ayes have it.

[The Division lists are published at the end of today’s debates.]

[Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Further to the announcement you have just made, I think that hon. Members should be aware, especially those who voted for the free trade agreement or abstained, that on Monday, two days ago, peasant farmer Jorge Eliecer Calderón Chiquillo was killed by the Colombian army. I hope that hon. Members will think about that.

[Mr Speaker]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has made his point with, if I may say so, great succinctness.

[Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

[Mr Speaker]

I hope that it is a point of order and that it is comparably succinct.

[Thomas Docherty]

Today’s Evening Standard reports that when Camp Bastion was attacked some 14 months ago, more than half the towers under British control were unmanned. The Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff told the Defence Committee just a couple of weeks ago that Britain had no responsibility for the attack. Has the Secretary of State indicated to you whether he wishes to update the House in the light of the very serious allegations in the Evening Standard today?

[Mr Speaker]

No. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point of order nevertheless.