§ MR. R. G. WEBSTER (St. Pancras, E.)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer a Question of which I have given him private Notice—Whether the Government intend, at an early date next Session, to introduce any amendment in the present mode of Parliamentary Procedure with the purpose of expediting Public Business?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL) (Paddington, S.)Of course, my hon. Friend will understand that the intentions of a Government with regard to the arrangements of a future Session are not at all exempt from all those changes and chances which beset all human arrangements. But with that rather important qualification, I may say that it is the most decided intention of Her Majesty's Government to recommend to the House of Commons at the commencement of next Session to devote its continued attention to very considerable alterations and modifications of its present method of conducting Public Business.