HC Deb 30 June 1899 vol 73 cc1153-4
GENERAL RUSSELL

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he can state when the War Office Vote will be taken.

MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he will state when the Scottish Estimates will be taken.

MR. ASQUITH (Fife, E.)

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he can now state on what day the Home Office Vote will be taken; my object is rather to elicit in what order the Votes will be taken next Friday.

SIR CHARLES CAMERON

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury when it is proposed to resume consideration of the Scottish Votes in Committee of Supply.

THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.

In regard to the questions about Supply, perhaps the House will permit me not to settle what Supply is to be taken more than a week in advance. As to the question of the right hon. Gentleman the late Home Secretary, the Home Office Vote will be taken next Friday. Some English Votes in Class 3 will be put down first, but I think tins will leave ample time for the discussion of the Home Office Votes, the importance of which, of course, I fully recognise. We shall require the three extra days for Supply which we are permitted to have under the Sessional Order, and I shall move a resolution to that effect next Friday.

SIR H. H. FOWLER (Wolverhampton)

Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake that the Home Office Vote shall come on not later than 9 o'clock? The other Votes he puts down may occupy the whole evening, and therefore the Home Office Vote, which we think this year to be more important than usual, would have no chance.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I will endeavour to find time for it, but I hope the House will second me in trying to get some of the Votes in Class 3.

MR. DAVITT

When will the Colonial Office Vote be reached?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I am afraid I cannot make a promise on this subject. I do not think it will be expedient in all probability to bring the Vote on at a very early date.