§ MR. GULLY (Carlisle)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce before Whitsuntide the Bill for the establishment of District Councils, referred to in Her Majesty's Speech?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIt would be useless to introduce this Bill unless there was some hope of passing it into law during the course of the present Session, and unless the Government make unexpected progress with public business no such hope appears to be likely of realisation. The Bill, therefore, will not be laid upon the Table before any specified date.