§ MR. LABOUCHEREI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the anxiety of the Government to include Saturday within the permissible polling days, if this can be done without interference with Public Business, any returning officer will be allowed to send a special messenger on Tuesday to the Privy Council Office after the Council for the Dissolution has been held, and if the writ will be given to that special messenger to be delivered to the returning officer on Tuesday evening, by which polling might be held on Saturday. Secondly, I would ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, as the First Lord of the Treasury has already stated that business in the House of Lords will be entirely over on Friday, he will consider if it would not be possible to have a Sitting of this House on Saturday instead of Monday, having the meeting of the Council on Monday, by which means also Saturday might be included in the permissible polling days?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCHEN,) St. George's, Hanover SquareI must ask the hon. Member to give notice of that question.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREI give notice that I will ask the question to-morrow.