MR. JAMES LOWTHER (Kent, Thanet)asked the First Lord of the 1737 Treasury what business would be taken on Thursday next.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI have already said that we hope to proceed with the Budget Resolutions on Thursday.
§ *SIR C. DILKEwished to ask what course the Government proposed to take with reference to two Labour Bills—the Truck Bill and the Coal Mines Regulations Bill. With regard to the Truck Bill, he understood that the Second Reading might be assented to without discussion, in order that it might be sent to a Grand Committee.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYIf that course can be adopted with the Truck Bill, it will be in the interest of all parties; I trust it will be so. The course which the Government may take with reference to the Mines Bill must depend upon the general course of business. I am not in a position to give any information to-day about it.