Will the right hon. Gentleman consider carefully the suggestion that has been made about the frequency and orderliness of his reports back to the House? If we sound slightly angry at times during the exchanges, very often it is due to, or at any rate is helped by, the frustration that we feel at receiving such enormously lengthy statements and not being able to get at them in the way that we feel we have a duty to do. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will give that further consideration.

Finally, will the right hon. Gentleman give us a firm promise that, as far as it lies within his power, because of the timetable to which we are working, and because so many of these matters have to be resolved and come into effect by 1st January 1974, he will do all that he can to ensure that we get proper time to consider and probe these matters?