§ 33. Sir Ernest Graham-Littleasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the membership of Convocation of the University of London exceeding 17,000 graduates, he has considered giving relief by legislation to the authorities of Convocation from their statutory obligation of convening Convocation for the conduct of elections to the senate and other offices or for ordinary meetings during the present crisis?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay)A Bill is already before the House giving the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge a general discretionary power to make emergency statutes and this power makes possible the suspension of normal statutory obligations. The most convenient way of meeting the difficulty raised by my hon. Friend would seem to be that the University of London, perhaps in common with other universities, should seek similar powers.