Hulbert was incensed when, on 19 January 1963, the BBC television programme That Was The Week That Was broadcast an item identifying the 13 Members of Parliament who had not spoken in the Chamber since the general election. He raised the issue as a question of Parliamentary privilege, saying that it was a claim that the Members concerned had not been attentive to their Parliamentary duties, and was inaccurate. Many other MPs considered the complaint itself risible and laughed while he was making it. The Speaker gave the complaint the traditional overnight consideration but ruled that it did not prima facie amount to an affront to the House.
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