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Business of the House

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. According to the note in the Lobby, under the title, "The Speaker's Provisional Selection of Instructions", you have decided that the instruction in the name of the Secretary of State be moved and voted on, and that the instruction in the name of the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan), with which my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) and others are associated, could also potentially be voted on, but only if the Secretary of State's instruction is defeated. Will you reconsider that, for this reason: the second instruction has a broader remit than the first? The logic might be, if it were acceptable to you and others, that we vote on the wider alternative before voting on the narrower. These are highly controversial matters, as you know. Is there any scope for that decision being reconsidered now or during the afternoon's proceedings?