Mr Speaker, today you recognised in the gallery the President of the Local Government Association, as I believe is entirely appropriate. You recently failed to recognise the Vice-President of the European parliament, Mr Edward McMillan-Scott, and when I questioned you at the time about this omission you indicated that you were acting on ‘clear rules’—and that is to quote from your response—and precedents. I want to take this opportunity to ask you whether you could please advise the House of what these rules are and detail the precedents on which you relied.