Perhaps it might assist the table officers if the chief government whip—and I think the other whips would agree—would state that the vote that we are applying is the one that was taken on the third reading of the supply bill. I think it would be clearer and it might assist in avoiding these different counts, subject to the people who might not have been here for that vote.
In the House of Commons on June 15th, 2000. See this statement in context.