§ Mr. Arthur GreenwoodWill the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House be good enough to state the Business to be taken on the resumption after the Whitsuntide Recess?
§ The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)The Business for the first series of Sitting Days after the Recess will be as follows:
First Sitting Day—Second Reading of the Foreign Service Bill and Committee stage of the necessary Money Resolution; Committee and remaining stages of the Nurses (Scotland) Bill; and of the Settled Land and Trustee Acts Bill [Lords].
Second Sitting Day—Supply (10th allotted day):—Committed; A Debate will take place on the coal situation.
Third Sitting Day—Second Reading of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Bill and Committee stage of the necessary Money Resolution.
§ Mr. GreenwoodWould the Leader of the House do something to facilitate a Debate after we come back after Whitsuntide on the shipping problem?
§ Mr. EdenI will certainly look into that. We shall have to consider how we can fit that in with other business and what will be the best way of taking it, but I am quite willing to consider it if there is a general desire for a Debate.
Mr. Graham WhiteCan my right hon. Friend say whether the Government will be in a position on the resumption of the House to make a statement on their, conclusions with regard to the Committee on Electoral Machinery?
§ Mr. EdenYes, Sir. As my hon. Friend is aware, we had hoped to be able to make that statement before the Whitsuntide Recess, and I hope that it will not be long delayed after we resume.
§ Mr. LawsonMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in view of the publication of the Afforestation Report, he can give time at an early date after we return for a discussion on that matter?
§ Mr. EdenYes, Sir. I would like to arrange that. I think it would probably be for the convenience of the House hot to have it just yet, in order to give Members a little time in which to consider the Report before we debate it.
§ Sir A. SouthbyWill my right hon. Friend bear in mind that post-war shipping is at least as important as post-war aviation? May we not therefore have a Debate on the question of post-war shipping at some convenient time after we resume?
§ Mr. EdenI rather imagined that that was in the mind of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), and I will contrive to have some arrangement of that kind ready for us after we get back.
§ Mr. ButcherWill my right hon. Friend consider giving time for a Debate on agriculture when the House reassembles?
§ Sir Henry Morris-JonesCan my right hon. Friend say when the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Bill will be available in the Vote Office?