MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he has received a number of communications from county councils and other public bodies and meetings in Wales appealing to him to give the necessary facilities for passing into law during this session the Welsh Sunday Closing Bill; whether he is aware that this Bill is based upon the unanimous recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed by the Government of which he was a member in 1889; and whether, seeing that this Bill passed its Second Reading without a division on 9th May, and in view of this general consensus of opinion as to its principal provisions, he will endeavour to make such arrangements as will allow the remaining stages of the Bill to be passed this session.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe hon. Gentleman is probably as well aware as I am that it is practically impossible to make exceptions in favour of private Members' Bills.