Graham Stringer

Minister, if you could, please leave a minute or so at the end of your contribution for the Member in charge to wind up.

Can hon. Members leave quietly, please? We wish to start the debate.

I will call Vikki Slade, but I want to hear from the Minister because this is an important debate. I am going to restrict the hon. Lady to two minutes.

We have little time, Minister, so please try to leave a minute or two at the end of your speech for the winding-up speech.

Order. The flurry of interventions that we have had over the last three speeches has meant that we have gone two or three minutes over time. I will reduce the time available to th…

Order. I am going to have to reduce the time limit to two minutes. That speech lasted longer than I expected.

Order. I am going to reduce the time for speeches to three minutes.

Order. I remind Members of two things: first, interventions should be brief; and secondly, if you say “you”, you are referring to me.

Order. Members who wish to speak should bob. I have taken a rough count of those who have, and we will start with a four-minute limit, which I might have to reduce later.

Order. I noticed that the hon. Lady arrived very late to the debate. It is not allowed, particularly in a massively oversubscribed debate like this, to come in and intervene.

Order. I am going to put a one-minute limit on speeches. If there are interventions, some people will simply not get in to speak.

Order. The hon. Gentleman has secured a debate that has attracted a lot of attention—I have 16 Members who have put in to speak. The rules say that I must call the Front-Bench spo…