§ Mr. PRINGLEasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to an interdict granted by Lord Anderson in the Court of Session on the 2nd February on the application of the Glasgow Insurance Committee ordaining the Scottish Insurance Commissioners to cancel any directions given by them for laying the National Health Insurance (Drug Accounts Committee) Regulations (Scotland), 1914, before both or either of the Houses of Parliament; whether the application was made and granted on the ground that no petition against the Order was possible in this House because the Government was to occupy the whole time of the House; whether, under the Order of 3rd February, the opportunity to petition against Orders and Regulations laid upon the Table of the House has been taken away; and, if so, whether the Government will propose an Amendment to the Order of the 3rd February whereby the right to petition against Orders and Regulations laid upon the Table will be restored?
§ The PRIME MINISTERMy attention has been called to the matter referred to. I must not be held to accept the statements made in the second branch of the question, but the grounds on which the application was made and granted are, I believe, accessible to my hon. Friend. As, under the Order of 3rd February, no opportunity would arise of discussing petitions against such Orders and Regulations, the Government will endeavour to make some arrangement that time should be given and when discussion is necessary and desirable.