§ SIR ALBERT ROLLIT (Islington, S.)I bog to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether the Government will make, and be willing to support, a Motion for a Select Committee to consider the expediency of amending the forms, procedure, and practice of the House and its Committees (including Committee of Supply), with a view to the better and more speedy and convenient dispatch of the Public and Private Bill business of the House?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.I am not disposed at the present moment to think that much will be gained by appointing a Committee on the business of the House. It is one of the subjects upon which the House is fully seized of all the facts, and I do not know that the positive suggestions of 465 Committees heave been very useful in the past. ["Hear, hear!"] Committees have sat in 1837, 1848, 1855, 1861, 1869, 1871, 1878, 1886, 1888, 1889, and 1890. There is an enormous mass of information stored away in Blue-books, to which I do not think there would be much use in adding. I may say that I think of bringing in, when the Debate on the Address is concluded, a Resolution dealing with the question of Supply which, to a certain extent, will meet my hon. Friend's view.