Speeches by Hendrick.

“Order. We are going to go very close to the time limit in this debate. I ask Members who want to speak to resist intervening. Members will only get three minutes each, in order to accommodate the wind-up speeches from the Front1 Benches.”

“I will call Mr Richard Holden to move the motion and I will then call the Minister to respond to the debate. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention normally for 30-minute debates. However, we have one or two other Members present who may wish to intervene. It is obvio…”

“I remind Members to bob if they wish to be called.”

“I remind Members that interventions are supposed to be brief.”

“I am interrupting you. You do not refer to other Members by their name, but by their constituency or position. Actually, you have taken nearly four minutes now; this is taking time away from others. Could you bring your remarks to a close?”

“Order. Could I ask the Member speaking to keep his remarks brief and perhaps come to an end? I do not mean instantaneously.”

“Before I call the next speaker, everybody can see the number of Members present, and quite a number have indicated that they wish to speak. We are fairly limited, as we have only half an hour for wind-ups at the end and the right of reply for Jess Asato. I ask Members to keep their comments to about two minutes, then e…”

“Order. I ask Members when intervening that they make it much shorter than the intervention we have just heard.”

“Order. Can the hon. Gentleman sit down a second?”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for keeping his comments brief. I call the hon. Member for Southend West and Leigh (David Burton-Sampson).”

“Order. Because of the time taken by Members who have already spoken, we are now down to two minutes per remaining Member.”

“Order. Can the hon. Member take a seat, please? I remind Members that when they refer to Members of this House, they must refer to them as the Member for their constituency or as their position. They must not name Members of Parliament.”

“Order. We are running short of time.”

“Order. I ask for interventions to be quite short. Those who are intervening are subtracting time from those who want to speak later in the debate.”

“Order. There is a Division. We normally add injury time to debates such as this. As soon as everybody is back in the Chamber, I will be in the Chair and any time we have lost as a result of the vote will be recouped.”

“With injury time, the debate will now continue to 4.15 pm. I call Lee Anderson to continue.”

“Order. Before we move on to the Front-Bench contributions, may I remind some of the newer Members, who have been saying “you” or referring to other Members by name, that the convention is to refer either to the office that a Member holds, such as Prime Minister, or to the seat that they represent?”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to take part in the debate. Given the length of the opening speech, and the amount of time available, I will try to limit each Member to about five minutes, with the exception of the two Front Benchers. I call Fred Thomas.”

“We are running a bit late, obviously, because we had a Division earlier. I will call Alberto Costa to move the motion and then I will call the Minister to respond. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention for 30-minute debates. However, I understand that there may well …”

“I should let the Minister know that the Member concerned did apologise that he had to leave urgently.”