Companies (Subsidiaries in Liquidation):

Part of Companies (Subsidiaries in Liquidation) – in the House of Commons am 3:39 pm ar 9 Gorffennaf 1991.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr Harry Ewing Mr Harry Ewing , Falkirk East 3:39, 9 Gorffennaf 1991

Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is an important point, and I apologise for interrupting the proceedings. Is it not the case that, once an hon. Member uses a communication that he has received and that may be the basis of a contempt complaint, he cannot then raise a complaint of contempt with you or with the Select Committee set up to consider that? My understanding—I could easily be wrong, having been wrong so many times before—is that one is not allowed to raise such a matter on the Floor of the House if a complaint is to be made, and if an hon. Member feels that privilege has been breached, he should take that point up immediately, without raising the substance of the complaint on the Floor of the House. As I understand it, the hon. Gentleman has now raised the substance.