CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

POINT OF ORDER – ADJOURNMENT DEBATES - 13 February 2001

POINT OF ORDER – ADJOURNMENT DEBATES - 13 February 2001

Dr Julian Lewis: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Further to your statement on Adjournment debates, almost all of which I heartily welcome, may I ask whether your restriction on the priority in ballots will apply when Members are concerned about their Fridays for the simple reason that many of them fill up their Fridays will constituency engagements, including constituency surgeries? Those of us who regularly apply for Adjournment debates know only at very short notice whether we have been successful, and, if we have not, it could be too late to do useful work for our constituents on the Fridays in question.