Speeches by Ghani.

“I ask colleagues to keep their questions short.”

“Please keep questions short. They are not speeches.”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. Government Departments must reply promptly to questions; one whole year is very shameful indeed. The delay outlined by the hon. Member would suggest that something has gone seriously wrong in the Treasury in relation to answering this question. I…”

“The previous Minister.”

“Order. Ms Berry, if you need some information on how to process procedure, please ask the Clerks or the Chair—you can come to me in a minute. We are speaking to all the amendments. Ms Slade, continue.”

“With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 44—Licensing functions of the Mayor of London. New clause 2—Council tax: CAs and CCAs to be subject to same increase as most county and unitary councils— “(1) The Local Government Finance Act 1992 is amended as follows. (2) In section 52ZC,…”

“I will definitely be paying close attention. I call the shadow Minister.”

“Did I hear the hon. Member correctly when she said one whole year?”

“I call the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.”

“I am trying to calculate the time; I hope that we have more than one speaker bobbing.”

“Marvellous. As we have four more speakers and we definitely have to finish business by 10 pm, Back Benchers are on a speaking limit of 10 minutes.”

“Order. Mr Holmes, before you flick through any more pages, it is obviously very interesting to hear you speak, but over 25 Members are hoping to contribute.”

“Order. May I urge hon. Members to make short interventions?”

“As the Secretary of State mentioned brothers, it would be remiss of me not to mention my five brothers—this will give Hansard a run for its money—Basharat, Nasim, Rasalat, Nazir and Imran, and obviously my husband David. Those wonderful men in my life have enabled me to be in this Chair today. I call Josh Newbury to wi…”

“We have just checked the pronunciation of dorsal rhizotomy—hopefully I have not got it wrong either! Question put and agreed to.”

“Order. I was going to correct the hon. Member’s use of the word “your”, but I did not want to interrupt his flow. I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.”

“Order. As the debate is oversubscribed, Back-Bench speeches are limited to four minutes.”

“I call Tom Morrison to speak for around 15 minutes.”

“Order. Minister, you were doing so well, but you are using, “You” or “your” and you should be speaking through the Chair.”

“Order. Before Sir Julian Lewis makes his intervention and the Minister responds, I remind the House that “you” and “your” are not permitted. Let us stay focused.”