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Speaker's Committee on the Search of Offices on the Parliamentary Estate

I do not know how much, Mr. Speaker, you enjoy the right hon. Lady acting as your interpreter: ““This is what the Speaker wants; this is what the Speaker means””. I am not sure that that is a helpful way in which to continue the debate. But on the narrow question of the idea that any Committee set-up reflecting the broad composition of the House would be unacceptable to the Opposition, is it not true also that any Committee set-up representing principally just the Opposition may not be acceptable to the Government? Does the right hon. Lady not understand that there are many right hon. Members here who would be quite independent of the Government and quite critical of them, and that Mr. Speaker will decide, not her?