§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if the Government will agree to the appointment of a Standing Committee for the consideration of such Bills relating to Scotland as may by an order of the House, in each case, be referred to it?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI am unable to give the hon. Member the assurance 1399 he desires, but he may be certain that if any Bills relating to Scotland are referred by order of the House to a Standing Committee, the assistance of Scotch Members in dealing with the Bills will be invited in addition to the ordinary Committee, which it is to be presumed will contain, by its original constitution, that proportion which Members for Scotland bear to the whole House.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLI beg to give notice that, on an early occasion, I will call attention to the subject.