Financial Markets

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Documents published this weekend under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 show that my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Peter Luff) and I were deliberately misled in the House in November 1997 by the then Prime Minister about the Ecclestone affair. The documents show that the Prime Minister had decided on 16 October of that year to seek a derogation for Formula 1 from the tobacco advertising ban. That was immediately after he had met Mr. Ecclestone. In answer to us, the former Prime Minister stated that no decision had been made on 16 October. The House must assert its right to truth from Ministers. Can you, Mr. Speaker, tell me how we can amend our rules to achieve that? I urge you to give us a lead in this matter so that we can insist on full and truthful answers from Ministers and a sanction against those who mislead us.