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Mr. Salmond: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Nothing can detract from that point, not even the hon. Gentleman.

Mr. Salmond: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order, in an Adjournment debate, for the

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Secretary of State for Scotland, clearly audible, to tell the Minister at the Dispatch Box to keep going, to exclude my hon. Friend--

Mr. Deputy Speaker: Order. That is again a bogus point of order. The Minister must have been in order--

Mr. Salmond: Balls.

Mr. Deputy Speaker: Order. Did I hear the hon. Gentleman right?

Mr. Salmond: Of course I would withdraw that remark, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and try to think of a parliamentary alternative, but I am objecting--

Mr. Deputy Speaker: Order. The hon. Gentleman certainly did not find a parliamentary alternative there. He was completely out of order. I take it that he has withdrawn.

Mr. Salmond: I withdraw the remark and submit, "Nonsense."

Question put and agreed to.



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