Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL

House of Commons, 27 March 2000.

Nick St Aubyn (Conservative, Guildford)

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Tonight, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury portrayed Mr. Peter Wyman as a personal tax adviser to a former Member, Mr. Neil Hamilton. Given that all that Mr. Wyman ever did was to give public, unpaid service to a Government deregulation task force when Mr. Hamilton was a Minister, has the Chief Secretary approached the Chair to correct a pernicious insinuation against a leading accountant in this country?

Michael Lord (Deputy Speaker, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

That is not a point of order for the Chair.

Stephen O'Brien (Conservative, Eddisbury)

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is a separate point of order. Was it in order tonight for the Chief Secretary to traduce Mr. Peter Wyman's evidence to the Treasury last Friday?

Michael Lord (Deputy Speaker, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

That matter was dealt with in an earlier debate. It is not a matter for the Chair now.

Nick St Aubyn (Conservative, Guildford)

Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

Michael Lord (Deputy Speaker, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

No. It is not a matter for the Chair now.