Does not the hon. That will make it even less likely that we get to the important groups of amendments towards the end of the selection list. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his colleagues, who take a particular view on these matters, had managed the time in Committee a little better, we might have been able to ensure that we got through issues in a more expeditious but sensible way. I do not accuse them of filibustering, because the Chairman would have brought them to order very quickly if they had been. I accuse them simply of being not quite on the point on many occasions.
Members can draw their own conclusions from that.
That seems to be his view. I understand the attractiveness of that suggestion for a member of a political party that was so decisively rejected by the voters of Scotland at the general election, but I remind the House of the points that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made when dealing with this issue on Second Reading. The powers of the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly derive from this Parliament. This is a sovereign Parliament and it is the right of every Member of it to participate in its proceedings, subject to earlier legislation.