QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER

Could people cease interjecting, otherwise I won't respond. I don't want to detain the House. Questions to me have to be about operations, not what happens during question time.

That's the first point, as the Leader of the House has indicated. When I ask a minister whether they have concluded, not all responses are always recorded. Sometimes people nod.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but just for clarity for the House, this is not a normal question to the Speaker. You've made your point now, but I'll just say that I don't want this to become a continuation. We've had a couple of these since the change of manager, and I don't want a recurrence of using questions to the Speaker to somehow make a secondary point that could be made during question time.